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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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Customer Self-Service Doesn’t Matter! That’s a False Paradigm!!!

Natalie Petouhof

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. As organizations make.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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How to Measure Success in the Contact Center

Interactions

For example, modern customers prefer self-service channels that allow them to find solutions themselves, and more quickly, rather than waiting in a queue to get to a live agent. They have expanded their channel offerings in order to improve customer experience. The way we communicate with brands is changing.

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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Goal: Improve Customer Loyalty. The best policies and procedures do not compel agents to say no to certain customers. The proper first step therefore involves identifying a clear pain point or efficiency gap within the customer engagement journey. As an example, evaluate abandonment within your web self-service channels.

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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

CSM Magazine

If an interactive voice response (IVR) system is difficult to use, customers either hang up or zero out to an agent, raising inbound call volume and prolonging average handle time. Human nature drives us to select the path of least resistance. About the Author.