Moving Forward: What Will 2026 Bring For Contact Centers?

Moving Forward: What Will 2026 Bring For Contact Centers?

Change is the norm in contact centers. There are the customer issues, and, depending on the center, customer sales opportunities. Rarely is one day...
The “Little Bill”

The “Little Bill”

Whoa! Has anyone noticed an itty-bitty bill floating around the 119th U.S. Congress? It is named the Keep Call Centers in America Act of...
Answering the Challenges

Answering the Challenges

Contact centers are facing a wide array of environmental, financial, operational, and regulatory challenges. Examples include, but are not limited to: Budget pressures. Evolving customer expectations. Staffing...
The Road Ahead for Auto Finance CX

The Road Ahead for Auto Finance CX

Buying a vehicle is arguably the second most important and largest purchase an individual can make, after buying a home. And, like purchasing a...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in December

Dina begins our Top 5 by delving into the benefits of cross-industry benchmarking. She provides insights on how and where to begin, ways benchmarking...
The Hidden Sales Team in Your Call Center

The Hidden Sales Team in Your Call Center

For years, the idea of turning inbound customer service agents into salespeople has been met with resistance, hesitation, and in many cases, failure. And...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in November

To kick off November's top 5, Sharon guides us on how to meet digital-first customer expectations by creating a digital engagement landscape. Next, Jennifer...
Gracious Gratitude

Gracious Gratitude

November is here and with it comes Thanksgiving – a time to gather, share, and express gratitude for the year’s harvest. Even when things...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in October

Welcome to October's Top 5 Blog Posts. To begin, Pablo explains how to successfully implement AI in our centers, where the first big step...
Meeting Digital-First Customer Expectations

Meeting Digital-First Customer Expectations

In an era where digital convenience is a default expectation, customers engage with brands across more channels than ever. From websites to mobile apps...
Doubling Down on Digitization

Doubling Down on Digitization

For decades, the call center has been the heart of customer service beyond the in-branch or in-store experience. As new digital options to interact...
Why Recession Planning Should Start in the Contact Center

Why Recession Planning Should Start in the Contact Center

Recent developments — including a new wave of tariffs on goods from China and other nations — have sharply increased the likelihood of a...
AI Agents and Human Agents – Better Together?

AI Agents and Human Agents – Better Together?

AI is well on its way to transforming the contact center, but no more so right now than with Agentic AI. I was the...
Making Connections Amidst Disruption

Making Connections Amidst Disruption

We appear to be in “the Age of Disruption”: in society, commerce, government policies, environment, and technology, notably AI like Agentic AI. As a, if...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in September

Starting off our top 5 blog posts in September, Chris shows us how enterprise browsers improve your agents' workflow, resulting in both happier agents...
How To Avoid Repeats…Repeats…

How To Avoid Repeats…Repeats…

If there’s anything a customer hates, it’s when a company disrespects their time. There are many ways this can happen. But in customer experience...
The Personalization Imperative

The Personalization Imperative

AI is everywhere. But what kind of impact can companies really expect from this technology, and most importantly, how can they leverage it to...
Decoding Customer Desires

Decoding Customer Desires

Understanding why customers reach out is no longer a luxury: it’s a necessity. As organizations strive to deliver exceptional customer experiences (CXs), call intent...
Extra! Extra! Advanced Tech Helps Newspaper!

Extra! Extra! Advanced Tech Helps Newspaper!

Newspapers and contact centers may seem like old-school communications. But both media, when applied correctly (apologies for the forthcoming bad pun), keeping with and...
How to Deliver Excellent CXs

How to Deliver Excellent CXs

As we go through 2025, one thing is clear: the relentless focus on a constantly improving customer experience (CX) isn’t going anywhere. While CX...