Connecting With Anxious Customers
In today's tumultuous environment, customers have less patience for long on-hold times and response times and for incomplete service when contacting organizations. But contact...
Top 5 Posts in January
Throughout the month of January, our readers were focused on planning and strategizing for the year ahead. Lori starts off by walking us through...
Skating to Where the Puck is Going
Though it doesn’t always get the credit it deserves, the customer service industry is a crucial part of the way technologies actually change the...
Moving Forward: What Will 2025 Bring For Contact Centers?
It is always important to remember, as we enter the New Year, to focus on what truly counts and that is people. For contact...
Human Over Hype
As AI continues to take the world by storm, organizations are expecting to revolutionize operations and deliver unprecedented results. For many, AI is seen...
Predictions for the U.S. Contact Center Industry in 2025
As 2024 has come to an end, ContactBabel has looked at the thousands of surveys we’ve carried out with contact centers and customers in...
New Year, Evolved Challenges, Compelling Priorities
For seven years, we worked with Contact Center Pipeline to conduct an annual Challenges and Priorities survey. We loved exploring the results, and our...
Top 5 Posts in December
Kathleen kicks off the top 5 this month with Part 1 of her two-part series on The Fine Art of Contact Center Management. She...
No Turning Back on AI
The current landscape of AI (artificial intelligence) in customer experience (CX) includes a wide array of applications, rapidly emerging trends, and a significant uptick...
Tailoring Generative AI for the Contact Center
As industries evolve, so do customer expectations. Customer service is more critical than ever for maintaining customer loyalty and business success.
Enter Generative AI:...
Meeting Today’s Coaching, Training Challenges
The key to contact center success is having a highly qualified, motivated, committed, and well-trained and coached workforce. But that is not always and...
Top 5 Posts in November
Welcome to the Top 5 Blog Posts in November. Topping the list this month, Kathleen warns of the downside to prioritizing cost-cutting measures, such...
The New Face of Knowledge Management
Knowledge management (KM), as we’ve known it, is swiftly becoming outdated. While its name suggests a cohesive solution, it actually encompasses two distinct functions:...
Speaking to Buy
In today’s digital era, we are heavily reliant on texts and emails for communication. However, there are instances when we resort to phone calls...
Top 5 Posts in October
To kick us off this month, Barry details how AI can help organizations manage and navigate the complexities of today's customer interactions.
Next, John updates...
Banking on Digital Transformation
Financial institutions are in the midst of a significant digital transformation, moving to provide a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX), enabled by solutions that...
Best Use Cases for AI in Contact Centers
In an industry that relies on improving both resource efficiency and customer experience, AI has the potential to make clear, tangible impacts on many...
Where to Call and Contact?
When contact centers seek to source their employees, once they have decided which, if any, of their agents will be outsourced, the choices have...
Enabling Productive CX in Challenging Times
Customers expect excellent products and services from companies and deservedly so. After all, it is their money. Particularly in challenging times like these with...
Top 5 Posts in September
This month, Michelle kicks off our top 5 with a math equation to take our CX to the next level: CX + EX +...




















