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Understanding Communication Styles: A Guide for Customer Service Agents

How agents can use the four communication styles to ease customer frustration, connect, and improve customer experiences.
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How to Improve Your Customer Retention Rate

In this article, we’ll dive into what customer retention rate is, how to measure it, and five proven ways to improve your customer retention rate. Learn all this and more here at Five9.
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Essential Customer Service Skills Every Contact Center Agent Should Master

Working in a contact center is uniquely challenging. From resolving billing issues to calming down frustrated customers, the job requires more than just a friendly voice on the other end of the line. Your success in this field depends on one thing: excellent customer service skills. But what are customer service skills, exactly? And how can you improve yours to stand out?

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How to Improve Customer Service Skills

Customer service skills are the heart and soul of a contact center. When done well, these skills can transform everyday interactions into joyful experiences that make customers feel valued, heard, and satisfied. The quality of service doesn’t just depend on solving a problem quickly – it’s about how an agent makes a customer feel during and after the interaction. For contact center agents looking to step up their customer service game, honing these skills is essential.

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How to Measure Customer Experience in the Contact Center

Delivering a great customer experience (CX) is essential for every business and its customer service. Happy customers lead to higher retention rates, increased loyalty, and often coveted word-of-mouth referrals. But how do you know if you're meeting customer expectations? Measuring customer experience is the key to understanding what’s working and where improvements are needed. It’s also the key to continually improving and adapting your customer service to meet changing customer preferences. Let’s take a look at how to measure customer experience in the contact center.

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5 Top Customer Retention Strategies

When was the last time you really were delighted by an experience with a business? Maybe it was when they responded to your social media share. Or quickly resolved your issue when you reached out to support. No matter how it happened, that business did something special, and it stuck in your mind. When you're looking for a similar product in a similar space, we'd bet you'll start your search at that company, right? 

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Important Contact Center Statistics in 2025

It's often said that data is the lifeblood of organizations today. But if you don't know what data to track, understanding where you are, how your business and team are doing, and making decisions is far more challenging. 

To help CX leaders track key metrics and best understand how their call center and employees are actually performing, we've collected this list of the most important contact center statistics. 

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