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How to Manage Customer Wait Time: The Best Tips From Great Companies

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth. Feeling uncertain makes waiting worse.

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Zero Cost! How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

When you cannot engage expensive consultants or re-imagined experiences for your business, it is essential to determine if the decisions you want to influence can be affected by regular business expenses that you have. (Or, Manage customer wait times. Or, depending on the segment, might be back every night. The post Zero Cost!

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Bad Customer Service Rarely Results in Profitability

Beyond Philosophy

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. We tap our toes and roll our eyes as we wait. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today. Or are they?

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Do You Harness the Power of Habit in Your Marketing Yet?

Beyond Philosophy

When the Marriot Marquis in Times Square, NYC introduced a new $11m smart elevator system to deal with elevator long wait times they ended up totally confusing and frustrating people.

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Transforming citizen experience: How AI and automation can revolutionize public services

3CLogic

2 High call volumes and long wait times Limited staffing and increasing demand for services result in frustrating delays for citizens seeking assistance. Faster resolutions, reduced wait times, and more personalized service at a lower cost. The result? Sources: NASCIO.com NASCIO.com Missionsqr.org

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Guest Blog: Improving Customer Experience Using Employee Feedback Data

ShepHyken

In my past experience as both a consultant and owner/operator of a BPO, I understand that CSAT surveys tend to get all the attention. Yes, your reporting can tell you that you have long wait times, high abandonment rates, or low CSAT scores. Of course, this is with good reason. However, it cannot always tell you why.

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Worried? Is Your Contact Center Failing You?

Beyond Philosophy

The first is unacceptable wait times. Now, whether that means being on hold on the phone for more than a couple of minutes, waiting several hours or even days for a response to their email, or simply never receiving that call back they were promised when they logged a query on your website, excessive wait times are a serious no-no.