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2015 Report Reaffirms Contact Center Business Model
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO TMC NET’S CLOUD CONTACT CENTER Last week, The Sander’s Retail Insights report was released. It reinforced a lot of common sense assumptions, but it also gave us deeper insight on just how important customer service is and why. Through their report, “Click & Collect, Contactless and Customer Service: What We Learned From the Retail Insights Survey 2015,” Business 2 Community highlighted important points that can also be found in this Sanderson’s Retail Insights 2015. They remind us that, to remain competitive in today’s market, we have to must the customer experience memorable. This also may mean evolving our business for accommodation. In fact, Business 2 Community suggests…
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Only One-Third of Businesses Have Adopted Cloud-Based, Unified Communications
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO TMC NET According to XO Communications (News – Alert), “87 percent of decision makers reap higher-than-expected level of benefit from unified communications.” So, what does this mean? This means that when unified forms of communications are put into place, collaboration and productivity is enriched. Through unified communications, people are able to stay in constant contact with one another, ensuring faster, more efficient decision-making and with minimal error. The only problem is, 50 percent of respondents agree with one another when saying that most companies need to invest in better resources for users to adopt these concepts and the training that goes with getting the most out of unified…
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GAWK, Inc. Acquires Connexum, Will Triple Annual Revenue
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO TMC NET’S CLOUD CONTACT CENTER GAWK, Inc. is essentially an advanced data center solution with efficient cloud-based servicing and a content delivery network. This week, GAWK announced its acquisition of Connexum. This deal is set to increase annual revenues for the company at an upwards of $6 million. This acquisition will also include Connexum’s wholesale telecommunications carrier with associated product and service lines. All assets of Connexum will now belong to GAWK and will mark the third acquisition for the company in a strategy to grow cloud-based communications services. GAWK grew interested in Connexum’s position within the VoIP sector, which spurred this acquistion. This merger will ripple…
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Blue Jeans Network Leverages Feedback from Influential Client Base
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO TMC NET’S WEBRTC SOLUTIONS With a mission to “make video communications as easy and pervasive as audio communications are,” Blue Jeans Network continues its journey in “enabling more effective collaboration at work, at home and on the road” through its most recent release of Blue Jeans 3.0. Blue Jeans Networks plans to deliver superior customer experiences, across platforms by streamlining interface integrations, which include Slack, WebRTC Support and Canvas. The goal here is to enrich real-time video experiences for the modern employee. The Blue Jeans Network has estimated an annual consumption of over a billion minutes of face-to-face interaction through their server. It is interesting to note…
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Outsourcing the Right Way: An 8-Step Program Ahead
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TO TMC NET’S CALL CENTER SERVICES CIO.com, a site serving Chief Information Officers, introduces us to “eight tips for choosing the right contact center for business.” These tips help us better understand what to look for when outsourcing third-party representatives for our call center initiatives and customer service support. Many of us choose to outsource to cut corners in our budgets, while others may choose to outsource expert call center professionals, fully equipped to handle large workloads. “1. Have a good sense of what you need, or want, before you start interviewing contact centers.” The first step in choosing the right call center agency is defining what you…
