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Is Outsourcing Your Customer Experience Really A Good Idea or Just Wrong?

Beyond Philosophy

Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. For example, if you outsource the call center, the experience there should be as good as your company-owned call center.

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Trade In Old Thinking For New

Beyond Philosophy

Who are these clients that call us wringing their hands after lying awake at night consumed with anxiety about their stagnant NPS scores? Since 2002, I have worked with all types of industries. What are the easy things I say have already been done? What is this “next level of Customer Experience?”. Well, I will tell you.

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. For example, often, the call center environment has a measure called “Average Call-Handling Time.” I wondered how I did that. What measurement is in place?

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The 5 Rules of Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

I defined it for myself as the mix of rational and emotional parts of an interaction with a customer, which later became my first book, Building Great Customer Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Once you realize that emotions are a significant part of the process, it is time to work them into your business strategy.

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What is the best scale for customer satisfaction surveys?

Customer Relationship Metrics

Most research projects in call centers use a 5-point scale and often times it’s normalized using a transformation table for comparative purposes. Surveys with more response alternatives are more reliable than those with fewer responses (Scherpenzeel, 2002; Alwin and Krosnick, 1991). Rodgers W.L., Andrews, F.M.

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Customer Service Jobs from Anywhere

AnswerConnect

Flipping the script on call center job location When AnswerConnect was founded in 2002, we ran a pretty typical call. Continue Reading → The post Customer Service Jobs from Anywhere appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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The Top 7 Call Center Quality Assurance Software Solutions

Voxjar

Your search for the best quality assurance software for your call center can get overwhelming, fast. While Voxjar offers an end-to-end Speech Analytics QA solution and are confident that we can help you solve your call monitoring needs, we believe that you should explore the entire landscape before making a decision.