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Contact center turnover rates have historically been high. Couple that with the spike in attrition rates across the country (and the world), and the problem becomes even more serious. What is causing the increasing agent churn? First is the U.S. job market, with rising job numbers and a decreased unemployment rate. These factors create more opportunities for agents...
Contact center agents have been under a lot of pressure since the pandemic began. They’ve had to deal with increasingly unruly customers, and most have been asked to adapt to virtual working environments. All of this has led to high rates of agent turnover, and as a result, many organizations are taking action to improve agent engagement and...
For businesses to succeed today, they have to be attuned to their customers. Key business objectives need to be shaped by customers’ own goals and desires. But when it comes to making strategic decisions through the lens of customer experience, a CX assessment is a useful exercise. What Is a CX Assessment? A CX assessment is...
The Amazon Connect features released last year provided a striking new set of tools for increased productivity. These include several enhanced self-service capabilities that can be of significant value to companies in light of recent global commerce and employment challenges. Businesses everywhere have utilized these new features in various ways. For example, some have created an...
The pace of technological change continues to increase. In 2018, cutting-edge technologies like AI, IoT, and blockchain had a collective market value of $350 billion. By 2025, the value will be $3.2 trillion — nearly a tenfold increase in less than a decade. These numbers are astounding. They’re also easy to misinterpret. As more companies...
It’s never been more important to offer an excellent customer experience (CX). This means it’s also never been more important to have a CX strategy in place. Research shows that satisfied customers generate 2.6 times more revenue than those who are lukewarm. At the same time, unhappy customers can leave negative reviews that scare away future business....
July 7, 2020 - USAN, a leading provider of cloud customer engagement solutions, announces a strategic partnership with Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company and industry-leading workforce engagement management provider. As a Calabrio Certified Implementation Partner and a Reseller Partner, USAN can sell, design, and implement Calabrio ONE capabilities for small and midsize business (SMB)...
When Amazon released its contact center service, Amazon Connect, it was met with skepticism by some industry insiders because it didn’t have the features other solutions offer. After working with the cloud-based contact center service for a little over a year, we’ve seen firsthand the power of Amazon Connect in its simplicity. It’s not that...
When Amazon released its cloud-based contact center service, it was met with skepticism. In a feature-by-feature comparison with any of the existing leaders, Amazon Connect usually came up short. That was a little over a year ago, and much has changed and continues to change when it comes to feature functionality, but we’ll get to...
Let’s face it, there are other technologies in the contact center that are more exciting than your IVR. But despite the rise of other communication channels, telephony remains “by far the largest inbound interaction channel,” according to ContactBabel. That being the case, it’s worth asking, “Is it time to upgrade the IVR?” Here are five...
In the last post, I talked about the Big Buckets. One bucket holds transactional (self-service) events. One contains interactional (live-agent) events. And the third is home to the hybrids: events that are both transactional and interactional. That third bucket—let’s call it the blended bucket—could soon be the biggest bucket as more and more companies adopt...
The other day my errands turned into one omnichannel adventure after another. My experience offers three examples of how companies in three different industries improved my customer experience with their omnichannel solutions. Pick Up Prescriptions My first stop was my pharmacy. The pharmacy sent me a text telling me that a prescription had been automatically...
There is a widely believed superstition that an omnichannel investment is expensive, complex and disruptive. Central to this myth are twin villains: the first is Rip and the second, Replace. Their shared mission: drive up omnichannel costs to the point where it’s an unjustifiable investment, with slow payback and weak ROI. Rip and Replace is...
