Supercharging Data Management

Supercharging Data Management

Since generative AI (GenAI) made its explosive debut at the end of 2022, every business function has felt pressure to deploy GenAI-powered tools in...
How Automated Contact Channels are Evolving

How Automated Contact Channels are Evolving

Imagine uncovering the secrets behind successful omnichannel and IVR best practices through firsthand insights from over 25 organizations worldwide. You may feel, as we...
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...
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...
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...
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

In honor of Contact Center Pipeline’s 15th anniversary, this article focuses on key trends over the past fifteen years. I have been a part...
The Need to Make the Best Customer Connections

The Need to Make the Best Customer Connections

In today’s uncertain, disruptive, social, and highly competitive economy, customer experience (CX) counts, and in more ways than one. Yet providing customers with the...
The Rising Importance of Contact Centers

The Rising Importance of Contact Centers

Every year we read articles about how vital contact centers are; insiders almost always write them, but rarely do we read the same opinion...
CX: The Key to Driving ROI

CX: The Key to Driving ROI

In today’s marketplace, challenges are on the rise. Between increased competition, the workforce shortage, and inflation surging to a record 40-year high, businesses simply...
To Blend or Not to Blend?

To Blend or Not to Blend?

Blending customer contacts, such as outbound outreach for inbound agents (or vice versa), and more recently, digital streams with voice calls, appear to have...
Edging to the Brink of Change

Edging to the Brink of Change

The year is 2023, and the contact center industry is on the brink of change. With new technologies and approaches being developed daily, it’s...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in December

Throughout December, our readers have focused on two big topics over on the blog: how to provide the best customer experience via an omnichannel...
How to Create a Brighter Future for Agents

How to Create a Brighter Future for Agents

The customer experience (CX) world has been flipped on its head over the last two years. What we saw happen within contact centers at...
The Way Customers Communicate with Brands Is Changing

The Way Customers Communicate with Brands Is Changing

Find Out What the Data Reveals. Change. It’s inevitable, as they say. But over the past few years it’s felt like the world as we...
An Executive Interview with Kustomer.

An Executive Interview with Kustomer.

If you are managing a contact center, your goal everyday is to enrich your customer’s experiences. That is exactly the foundation to which...
Multiple Channels, Challenges, and Opportunities

Vendor Roundtable: Multiple Channels, Challenges, and Opportunities

There has always been, and will continue to be, a blend of predictability and unpredictability when managing inbound customer contacts. When there is a...
How to Manage Multiple Evolving Channels

How to Manage Multiple Evolving Channels

In recent years there has been an uptick in the number of digital channels through which customers can be engaged. These range from websites...
How to Prepare for Peak (and Return) Season

How to Prepare for Peak (and Return) Season

Retailers are preparing for peak season by analyzing consumer behavior trends, tuning up their tech, adjusting staffing levels, and shoring up logistics. But it’s...
Critical Tools to Make Outbound Succeed

Critical Tools to Make Outbound Succeed

It’s no secret that the customer service industry has taken a significant hit throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Between angry customer phone calls, miscommunication, insufficient...