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Gain new perspectives on AI, Five9, CX, and cloud technology here on our blog. With new contact center and call center blogs, we continually offer industry guides and tools for customer experience to provide new insights to your customer service team.

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3 Tips for Reducing Churn in Your Call Center

While there is no silver-bullet for eliminating unwanted churn in the call center, there are steps that business managers can take to at least reduce unwanted turnover. If your call center is staffed similarly to others around the country, then nearly 70% are...
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Will Self-Service Eventually Replace the Live Agent?

When it comes to customer service, as consumers, we can do a lot on our own thanks to the copious amounts of technology at our fingertips. In fact, most of us tend to prefer self-service to relying on a live connection to help us reach a solution. According to a recent consumer survey commissioned by Nuance Enterprise, 75 percent of respondents said self-service is a convenient way to address customer service issues. Just think about how much...
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3 Training Tips for Contact Center Agents

Agent training often targets product knowledge, efficiency and customer service basics, but these skills are can either be hurt or helped, depending on the CRM software your organization is using. Delivering excellent customer service means agents need quick access to customer history, billing and shipping information, and current service and product information.
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The Omnichannel Contact Center: Q&A with Liz Osborn [Part 2]

In June 2015 Susan Hash of Contact Center Pipeline conducted a Q&A interview with our very own Liz Osborn. The topic? All things omnichannel. Last week we published the first part of the interview, covering top omnichannel challenges, how to get started, prioritizing contact channels, and what to measure. In this week's post Liz covers omnichannel performance monitoring, impacts on customer service staff, necessary resources for implementation, and one final piece of advice.
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The Omnichannel Contact Center: Q&A with Liz Osborn

The omnichannel contact center -- How do you get there? What are the first steps? Where do you focus your resources? How do you measure it? Liz Osborn, Five9 VP of Product & Solution Marketing, reviews these topics and more in her Q&A session with Susan Hash of Contact Center Pipeline.
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4 Ways to Bridge The Gap Between Agent Productivity & Customer Delight

As we've discussed in previous blogs, ICMI research has found that contact center agents have the greatest potential to affect the customer experience. Furthermore, the same research found that the greatest positive impact on agent performance hinges on the necessary tools agents need to effectively perform in their position. Here are four key characteristics...
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3 Questions to Consider Before Asking Agents to Up-sell

Guest Post by Joanna Jones of MHI Global. Asking contact center agents to up-sell or cross-sell while interacting with customers sounds simple enough, but the reality of up or cross-selling is not as easy as it sounds. As profits continue to be squeezed from all directions, it is natural for companies to look for ways to sell more product or service. When done well, your contact center can generate...

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