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How to Improve the Contact Center Experience in 5 Easy Steps

InMoment XI

A lot of customer experiences hinge on your contact center’s effectiveness, which is why it’s important to ensure it’s a resource your customers find helpful, professional, and expedient. However, building an effective, consistent contact center experiences can be overwhelming.

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Guest Blog: Contact Center Talent in These Changing Times, Part 1 – Setting the Stage

Calabrio

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

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Finding the Right Self-service Mix in Your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Self-service is an important facet for creating a seamless customer experience. From a customer’s perspective they want to receive timely and error-free service in the channel of their choice. As you are developing your plan, keep in mind there is no one-size-fits-all solution to placing and perfecting self-service options.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient. New Self Service KPI Metrics.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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Self-Service in the Modern Call Center: Key Considerations for Technology and Strategy

NICE inContact

With technology’s rapid evolution, convenience and self-service from decades ago don’t quite measure up to today’s expectations. For contact centers, it’s an ideal opportunity to rise to the challenge. The days where a simple IVR system did the trick are long-gone.

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10 Customer Self-Service Best Practices to Power Your Contact Center Results

NICE inContact

Sometimes contact center professionals become so focused on agent-assisted customer service methods that they forget many customers just want to help themselves. A personalized interaction with a competent and engaging agent can be highly satisfying but it isn't always a customer's first choice.

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Start Every Conversation with AI: The Front Door for Intelligent Customer Service

Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction

Self-service is on the rise. Enter a conversational AI solution for your contact center. Some customer service interactions require a human —but just because some calls must be transferred to a live agent doesn’t mean they can’t all begin with AI.

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5 Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise

Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction

However, a common concern exists among both contact centers and customers: does this switch to self-service degrade the quality of service? Which CX functions are required to architect and manage self-service applications. Tune in to discover: Where to start.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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2022 Contact Center Buyers' Guide

As contact center needs and pain points have evolved, so have contact center buying processes. AI / Self-Service. This guide covers: Omnichannel & Inbound. This guide covers: Omnichannel & Inbound. Agent Experience. Workforce Engagement Management. And more.

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The Innovator’s Guide to the Digital-first Contact Center

In the contact center industry, first-generation digital channels like email and web chat have seen significant adoption, along with video chat and co-browsing capabilities. Social platforms are now becoming mainstream contact center channels.

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The Future of Contact Centers: What Technology Is Right for Your Customers?

Speaker: Laura Sikorski, Contact Center Consultant

Your Contact Center is the most customer focused area in your organization. Technology must provide reliable options for customers to reach you when they want and obtain the same great service regardless of the channel they choose. Robust Contact Center software features that will enhance your operation.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Ask the Experts: Conversational AI Automation Step-by-Step

Speaker: Tiffany Anderson, Director CX Process/Initiatives, Purchasing Power & Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction

Key takeaways: Step-by-step process for conversational AI self-service implementation. Insights from a contact center leader who’s done it with proven success. A plan for your contact center to introduce AI automation in the next six months. October 24th, 2019 9:30 AM PDT, 12:30 PM EDT, 5:30 PM GMT.