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What is Omnichannel Customer Engagement?
April 6th, 2020 | Omnichannel

There aren’t many concepts that in the space of ten years have transformed from an unknown theory to an essential strategy that almost no brand can succeed without. We are of course, referring + Read More

How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats
March 23rd, 2020 | Live Chat

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support + Read More

AI Chatbots in the Contact Center – Help in a Crisis
March 19th, 2020 | AI

In the past few weeks, I’ve been reaching out to contact center managers to find out what key problems have been brought on by the coronavirus + Read More

How Can Small Businesses Weather the COVID-19 Storm?
March 18th, 2020 | Live Chat

COVID-19 has had a wide-spread and hard-hitting impact on everything and everyone. It’s not only our individual health that’s at risk (to be sure, this is the most important consideration); the health + Read More

4 Ways to Get Rid of Painful CX Silos
February 25th, 2020 | Customer Experience, Omnichannel

Siloed systems are one of the greatest obstacles to a quality customer experience (CX). Your team can spend days crafting the perfect customer journey, but if only some people + Read More

5 Key Customer Profiles Every Company Should Treat Like VIPs
February 19th, 2020 | Live Chat

Your VIPs are your company’s most important customers, as defined by you. Whether you work in a B2B or B2C industry, you can + Read More

4 Things to Consider When Mapping Your Digital Customer Journey
January 21st, 2020 | Omnichannel

Whether you’re new to digital omnichannel or your company is already deep into digital transformation for customer service, it’s always important to check + Read More

2020 Is the Year of Digital Omnichannel. Here’s What You Need to Know
January 14th, 2020 | Omnichannel

It seems like just yesterday that the customer service industry began transitioning from a multichannel to an omnichannel mindset. It was a shift + Read More

Why Your Business Needs an Online Ticket Management System
January 13th, 2020 | Customer Service

Note: This blog post was originally published in November 2015, and as it is one of our most popular posts, we have updated + Read More

AI Chatbots: The Dream vs. The Reality (Pt. 2: Automation)
October 1st, 2019 | AI

“Artificial intelligence” might come across to many as a trending buzzword used by enthusiastic tech theorists and marketers, but in this series I’ll + Read More

AI Chatbots: The Dream vs. The Reality (Pt. 1 – Delight)
September 23rd, 2019 | AI

The concept of “artificial intelligence” often gets invoked as a buzzword by enthusiastic tech theorists or marketers, but in this series, I’ll show + Read More

How to evaluate HIPAA compliant patient engagement software vendors, Part 2
September 3rd, 2019 | Customer Experience

This is Part two of a two-part series on HIPAA compliance for digital customer engagement. Click here for part one, which covers HIPAA + Read More

How to evaluate HIPAA compliant patient engagement software vendors, Part 1
August 27th, 2019 | Customer Experience

This is the first of a two-part series about digital customer engagement and HIPAA compliance. In this post we cover the role of + Read More

4 Tips to Improve Your Contact Center Customer Experience
August 20th, 2019 | Customer Experience

If you’re in the contact center space, chances are you already have a customer experience strategy. However, while many contact centers are able + Read More

The Telephone is a Dying Communication Channel. And it’s Being Killed by Robocalls.
August 15th, 2019 | Contact Center

My phone rings. It’s a mobile number, and I’m expecting a call.  I pick up the phone. An automated voice responds:  “We are calling + Read More

AI is here to help agents, not take their jobs
August 8th, 2019 | Customer Service

As AI becomes more and more commonplace, people are questioning “Is my job safe?”. Looking purely at the news coverage from mainstream outlets, + Read More

AI: When to play it safe and when it’s risky business
July 30th, 2019 | Customer Service

Thirty-five years ago, times were much simpler – the first IBM PC had recently hit the market, smartphones didn’t exist, and we were + Read More

3 Practical Ways AI in the Contact Center Gets Real
July 11th, 2019 | Customer Experience

No matter what kind of work you do, it’s getting harder and harder to steer clear of conversations about how artificial intelligence is + Read More