Helping Organizations Adapt and Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The upheaval created by the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Your customers are understandably concerned and confused, and are likely coming to your organization with many questions, most of which are different from what your...
Solutions Q&A: FrontLine Group
If you have not heard of FrontLine Group before, you may be surprised to learn that it is part of one of the largest and oldest Canadian-owned collections firms, CBV Collection Services Ltd., with...
Boosting Agent Efficiency with Modern Channels & Automation Technology
An increasing number of organizations now have limited resources and staff at their disposal due to consequences of the current macroeconomic climate. When you pair that with mounting support inquiries, it’s clear that many...
Why Customer Experience Matters
When agents realize their impact on CX, they can deliver better outcomes for everyone.
Yes, they’re customer service professionals, but do your agents really know why customer experience (CX) matters and what a pivotal role...
What Call Center Managers Need to Know About AI Text Analytics
Text analytics has already expedited delivery of excellent customer service in innovative ways for call centers. But what if you could analyze both sides of the conversation—customer and agent? Advanced text analytics technology has...
Rebooting Your Workforce Management Strategy
Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). This presents...
Why Size Doesn’t Matter: No Business Is Too Small to Care about Customer Experience
Small and mid-sized companies can no longer be complacent in their customer service, leaving premium customer care services to the corporate giants that can afford it. Companies of every size, in every situation—from trying...
How to Promote Customer Loyalty in the Age of Complexity
Conventional wisdom accepts that it’s cheaper to keep existing customers than to get new ones. Then why is it companies pay so little attention to creating brand loyalty? Treating your customers right and giving...
Call Center Preparation for the Coronavirus
Call centers are a hub of germs! Reps sit close together in pods, they sometimes share headsets with their supervisors, they are stuck inside without fresh air every day, and they share bathrooms and...
A Cloud-Based Dialer Checklist
If you are moving from a premise-based system to a cloud-based system, you may not know all of the features to look for. Premise-based systems tend to be more antiquated and less flexible. Cloud-based...
How Analytics Will Earn Contact Centers a Seat at the C-Suite Table
Big data analytics is about to explode, marking a watershed moment for contact centers. There has never been a greater need for data-driven insights as businesses prioritize revenue growth amid rapidly shifting customer expectations,...
A Q&A with Teleopti’s David Påhlman
There is one thing that becomes immediately evident to Teleopti’s contact center clients—that this is a company that walks the talk when it comes to customer care. In fact, the global provider of workforce...
3 Technologies to Drive Peak Performance of Your Contact Center
How can contact centers leverage artificial intelligence (AI), speech analytics and agent enablement tools to improve agent performance, as well as customer-focused metrics like Net Promoter Scores (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)? Join me...
Unified Communications. Single-Sourced. Always On—Instant Communications.
Unified Communications. Contact Center Solutions. Delivered in tandem from the cloud “as a Service”… will enable your company to use both capabilities across your organization as required, with the maximum amount of operational flexibility...
Top 3 Trends for the Future of Contact Center Training
The world of contact center training is complicated. Trainers are responsible for helping the onboarding process run smoothly for new agents by delivering the best possible training program tailored to the training class and...
Executive Interview with LumenVox Founder & CEO Edward Miller
What exciting times for our industry. Voice technology has come such a long way and according to my interview with Edward Miller, the Founder and CEO of LumenVox, we still have so much opportunity...
Don’t Settle: 4 Things to Ask Before Choosing A Contact Center Provider
Choosing a new contact center solution is a big investment that will affect your everyday operations and the experience you provide to your customers. With that on the line, deciding on a new solution...
How Digital Disrupted Customer Service
Adoption of digital channels, from email and chat to SMS and social media, has skyrocketed over the last year and a half: McKinsey estimates that their adoption fast-forwarded about five years in eight weeks...
Why the Call Center Was Already Collapsing—Even Before COVID-19
COVID-19 has made the fundamental flaws in phone-based support impossible to ignore. Overwhelmed and under-equipped reps are struggling, anxious customers are stuck on hold for hours, and the very premise of crowded call centers...