ShepHyken

MARCH 7, 2018

The other day I was talking with a gentleman who was as passionate about customer service and experience as I am. He had worked with support centers and we were discussing how important the team in a customer support center is to an organization. Yet, it surprised both of us just how low paid some of these support people are. That made me think about the teller at a bank, the person who is the “face” of the bank for all intents and purposes.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 9, 2018

On our Intuitive Customer podcast , Professor Ryan Hamilton and I have been talking about the ways that customers are irrational in their decision making, often focusing on things that seem irrelevant. I came across an excellent example of this in a Scientific American article about men and the environment. We men, it seems, aren’t as good at being environmentally friendly as women are.

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Callminer

MARCH 26, 2018

Voice continue to the most widely-utilized customer service channel by consumers, with 73% of consumers calling into the call center for customer service needs, according to Forrester.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagine there is an angry customer calling your contact center. They threaten to cancel their service. They provide their name and mailing address, but cannot remember their account number or security password. However, they are shouting and threatening to complain on social media regarding supposedly unfair charges to their account. Eventually, your agent calms the […].

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CX Global Media

MARCH 27, 2018

From a customer effort standpoint, you’re blind. Your biggest source of insight data is not visible. It’s estimated that as much as 80% of the world’s data is locked up in the voice conversation. For many organizations with prominent contact center operations their percentage of data that is locked-up and invisible is even higher. The problem.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2018

You have a problem. You call the phone number listed on the company’s website. You wait on hold for what seems much longer than the ten minutes they said you would be holding. You finally get to a customer service rep. You tell your story and the customer service rep responds, “I’m sorry, that’s not my department.” Then you’re transferred to someone else and the “game” of holding and telling your story starts all over again.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 23, 2018

Have you been on a flight recently and found that you arrived at your destination a little early? I have, but I never thought much about it until I heard this NPR report. A Tufts University researcher named Silke Forbes thought it odd that she arrived 30 minutes early on a flight from Cleveland to Washington. She had taken the same flight a few years before, but it had taken less time back then.

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Callminer

MARCH 15, 2018

We decided to take a deep-dive into the latest debt collection industry figures and statistics to get a glimpse of the current state of debt collection.

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Steve DiGioia

MARCH 19, 2018

how a single interaction can ruin the entire customer experience This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. “Although companies are investing record amounts of money in traditional loyalty programs, in customer-relationship-management (CRM) technology, and in general service-quality improvements, most of these initiatives end in disappointment.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 27, 2018

The call center industry has one of the highest attrition rates in the world, and it is not a surprise. After all, who would not get burnt out listening to customer complaints and frustrations for the most part of the work day? The problem is that companies view this as something normal. Employees come and […].

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 27, 2018

I just finished recording a fully customized 14-module video course for a new client. My client’s biggest challenge was how to navigate through complex calls, like situations with ramblers and challenging customers. One of the strategies I prepared for my client’s customized training is 4 Things You Can Do To Help Your Customers Cut to the Point.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Julien Rio whos writes about the most common KPIs and how to understand them, select the right ones and how to improve them. – Shep Hyken. Depending on whether your Customer Care department is an extension of your marketing or your customer service strategy, the KPIs you give yourself may be different. In this article, we will review the most common KPIs, how to understand them, how to select the right ones and how to improve them.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2018

Didn’t Blockbuster, Kodak and Circuit City see the end was in sight? Why did they not change? Too many people reject new thinking that will improve their Customer Experience. Why? What is it about human behaviors that does this? In this podcast Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton will debate why this is the case and what you should do about it.

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Callminer

MARCH 20, 2018

AI and automated analytics are instrumental for uncovering a wealth of actionable intelligence from the millions of data points captured in customer interactions.

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 22, 2018

By Meghan Speer I recently had to call into a company because the amount they charged me was incorrect. Working in the call center industry, I am always curious how these experiences will go, and often play the comparison game. How long do I have to wait? Do their agents sound better than ours? If you’re reading this, I’m sure you know that game. In this instance, my call was answered fairly quickly, but when the person on the other side of the phone began speaking I wasn’t sure if I was speakin

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 15, 2018

A crucial part of every company’s sales and service process takes place behind the scenes where a team of talented professionals helps to make every aspect of the customer journey possible. Although their work is less visible to customers, the back-office team provides vital administrative and support functions that contribute in no small way to […].

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 15, 2018

If you’re on a call with a customer, and more than three, or four seconds go by, and you haven’t said a word, that’s called dead air space. You’re working… you know that. But for the customer, dead air space feels awkward. So we need to learn the best way to fill the silent seconds. Today, I’ll show you five ways to avoid the uncomfortable dead air space. 1.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2018

Earlier this month I attended Social Media Marketing World , the largest conference on social media marketing in the world. Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2018

You know that old saying about what you make of you and me when you assume something? Well, it turns out, that economists made quite an assumption for years: that people were entirely rational in their decision making. However, they were wrong and we know they were because of the scientific method. Best of all, the truth is fairly simple and makes a lot of sense.

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Callminer

MARCH 25, 2018

The requirements of GDPR are leaving many businesses struggling to make updates to internal procedures regarding recordkeeping and storing of information

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 12, 2018

By Jacqueline Santiago Every employer should know they are at risk of high employee turnover, which is why employee engagement is so important. Implementing strategies is more than just providing surveys. You have to be fully committed by understanding the principles of employee engagement. Some of which are: C ulture L eadership P urpose A ction Tr ansparency C ommitment R ecognition The purpose is to have an engaged culture, which will make people stay, and go above and beyond what is expected

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 1, 2018

As the job market continues to improve, holding onto skilled service staff will be a top challenge for contact centers. Competitive wages are no longer enough to coax talented agents to stay, so forward-thinking companies have been looking for other ways to make their organization more attractive to today’s workforce. The following are three proven […].

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Myra Golden Media

MARCH 3, 2018

Five years ago my dad needed to have a quadruple bypass, and he needed to have 3 of his heart valves replaced. The surgery came with significant risks. There was a 10 – 15% chance of death during or shortly after surgery. There was a risk of stroke or heart attack during the operation. My father didn’t want to have the surgery – because of the risks, and based on things he was hearing from other people.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2018

Stop Losing Customers, Start Creating Loyalty. How can accountability create Moments of Magic ® ? Shep Hyken sits down with Joey Coleman to discuss how to “Never Lose a Customer,” which happens to be the title of his amazing book. Transform a single sale into a lifetime of loyalty. ? ?. . Top Takeaways: Joey’s greatest insight is that regardless of the industry, somewhere between 20% and 70% of new customers will quit doing business with you before reaching the 100-day anniversary of becoming

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2018

Amazon received two patents on wristbands that can track the moment-by-moment actions of their warehouse workers. Amazon has not said whether they will use the technology in their warehouses but stated if they did, they would be used to improve the process for their employees. However, anyone who has ever read George Orwell’s 1984 or suffered the scrutiny of a micro-manager will have a healthy dose of doubt that a wristband that reports back the nitty-gritty details about productivity will impr

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Callminer

MARCH 12, 2018

When you want to hear what your customers truly have to say, you are on the path to transforming your business.

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Call Center Weekly

MARCH 9, 2018

By Elaine Carr, CPLP Several years ago while interviewing for my job at ICMI, an employee asked me, “What’s the biggest training obstacle for contact centers?” I thought for sure this must be a trick question. The answer is just so obvious. When I answered, “Getting people off the phones to do training,” the interviewer threw her hands in the air indicating I scored a touchdown.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MARCH 29, 2018

As we get ready to close the book on March, we wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss out on some of the popular and insightful posts published on the Pipeline blog in the last few weeks. Our five most-read topics in March included a look at how to engage millennial employees; building better […].

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