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The Evolution of Customer Experience in the Travel Industry

by Kim Campbell in Blog, Customer Experience, Customer Service Trends, Kim Campbell

  Few industries are quite like travel. Can you think of any other industry where anxiety is baked into the product or service? Even before the pandemic, customers found themselves faced with myriad rules, restrictions, and bottlenecks to navigate before reaching their destination, leading to many a meltdown at checkpoints and terminals around the world. […]

 

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What’s Everyone Talking About in Customer Experience Today?

by Susan Preiss in Blog, Customer Service Trends, Susan Preiss

  Customer experience is pretty much the hottest topic in the contact center and customer care space these days. We’ve been focused on designing and delivering best-in-class experiences for decades, but customer experience is an expansive, evolving topic, and staying current on trends and the latest thinking in customer experience is always a challenge. In […]

 

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Call Volume Forecasting: Predicting the Future from an Unusual Past

by Sean Miller in Blog, Call Center Measurements, Call Center Metrics, Sean Miller

  Call volume forecasts are inarguably an essential tool in the successful delivery of customer care excellence. Your program’s forecast is the map that tells you where to go based on where you’ve been. Without it, you’re lost at sea. With it, you’re one significant step closer to delivering an exceptional customer experience. But customer […]

 

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How COVID Has Shifted the Contact Center RFP Timeline

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center RFP

  Decision making got a whole lot more difficult in the wake of the pandemic, didn’t it? From the most basic choices, like where to shop for groceries or who to visit in-person; to the most complex business decisions, like what to do about employee safety or how to ensure business continuity—suddenly there were more […]

 

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5 Evolving Contact Center Technologies and Where the Next Year Will Take Them

by Blue Ocean in Blog, Contact Center Technology, Customer Service Trends

  For all the grief, losses, and setbacks the pandemic unleashed, there is a general consensus that it also sparked a revolution on the technical front. The adoption rate of new and evolving technologies accelerated at unseen speeds—resulting in 10 years’ worth of change within a mere 10 months. Contact center technologies are certainly in […]

 

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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Customer Behavior

by Kim Campbell in Blog, Call Center Measurements, Call Center Metrics, Customer Service Trends, Kim Campbell

  What do mattress sales, wildlife populations, and peak customer service times all have in common? These seemingly random data points have all been impacted by COVID-19. Mattress sales have skyrocketed thanks to people spending more time at home—and discovering new sleep challenges as a result of the pandemic. Meanwhile, wild animals are appearing during […]

 

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