Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 19, 2021
About a year ago, I tried something that we would all agree now was a bit foolish: predict what the 2020 contact center would look like. Before the COVID-19 pandemic sent agents home on a massive scale, before economic disruption reinforced the need for consistent, digitally enabled customer experiences (CX), I outlined several ongoing trends […].
CX Global Media
JANUARY 29, 2021
Stephen Johnson once said, “The future is where most people are having fun.” How can you, as a leader, enhance customer experience with play? Companies. Read more. The post Awesome Ways to Enhance Customer Experience With These 3 things appeared first on Customer Experience Strategy and Tactics.
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Fonolo
JANUARY 7, 2021
Customer perception of service is a key component of customer perception. How well you service and support your customers will distinctly impact how your customers feel about your brand, product, or service. How to Improve Customer Perception of Your Brand. That said, it’s important to know the difference between customer perception of service, general customer perceptions, and customer satisfaction.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 8, 2021
It is not often in life that you get the opportunity to reset things. However, as the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, we have a chance that is, dare I say, unprecedented to reimagine Customer Experience. We have been through a shocking year of change. Now, we can decide what parts of the change we want to keep to respond to what customers want now. We’ve been doing some work with one of our clients recently who will be doing some research.
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ShepHyken
JANUARY 6, 2021
Every year I write my customer service and customer experience (CX) predictions in my Forbes.com column. This year, I thought I would share a brief version of them with our Shepard Letter subscribers. So, here are my Top 10 Predictions for 2021: Customers continue to get smarter. This has led to my list of predictions for several years. Our customers keep getting smarter about customer service and experience.
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Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 5, 2021
Continue the training with me? Join me at De-escalation Academy. This tip is from my De-escalation Academy. In De-escalation Academy, your employees go from feeling overwhelmed and powerless when they have to give customers bad news, to feeling confident, firm, and in-control as they bring down the temperature in interactions and guide customers to next steps.
Steve DiGioia
JANUARY 18, 2021
We all know that the coffee McDonald’s sells is too hot to drink when served. If you put it to your lips, you’ll most likely receive a burn that will be far worse than anything most people have ever encountered. So why do they make their coffee so hot? And how does this affect the customer experience? By now you must have heard about the famous “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case”.
CX Global Media
JANUARY 27, 2021
Social Customer Care Lessons for 2021 and Beyond – CX Quick Tips on CX Global Media TV with Russel Lolacher How is social customer care. Read more. The post What is Social Customer Care in 2021 [VIDEO] appeared first on Customer Experience Strategy and Tactics.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 29, 2021
Many organizations want a silver-bullet solution for Customer Experience , one quick thing they can do that will fix everything. However, there isn’t one for Customer Experience. It takes constant attention and small, deliberate changes to improve Customer Experience. When faced with this expectation from my clients, I think of what Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his cabinet after the election: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” People read books and
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ShepHyken
JANUARY 20, 2021
Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. To put it in baseball terms, you don’t need to hit a home run every time it’s your turn at bat. So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.
Callminer
JANUARY 26, 2021
See how maintaining contact center compliance requires cooperation between CCOs, contact center agents and an entire organization.
Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 27, 2021
Here are four things you can do to move your chat interactions along faster. One. Check for understanding early on and as often as it takes. Don’t assume you understand what the customer is saying. Just ask the customer what they mean. Like this: “You’re asking me how your employees can add an avatar to their eLearning profile, correct?
Steve DiGioia
JANUARY 4, 2021
Safety, security, and peace of mind. Nice calming words they are. They come with little worries and little stress. Every employee wants this. But what does management want from you? For many in the customer service industry, there is little room for advancement and few opportunities to make “change” – a change that is meaningful, impactful, and which enhances the customer experience.
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CX Accelerator
JANUARY 11, 2021
by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.
Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 21, 2021
2020 was nothing short of challenging for businesses. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, we all scrambled to adjust to the new state of the world. Virtually overnight, hundreds of thousands of agents transitioned to working remotely and the approach, management and infrastructure of contact centers were completely restructured. In the months following, we […].
ShepHyken
JANUARY 25, 2021
Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. “I Wish the CEO Would Try and Open This F@#!* Package” by Chip Bell. (Real Leaders) The title of this story is a line we use at my house when a product or service is unusually challenging.
Callminer
JANUARY 6, 2021
Read this article to learn how omnichannel technology can enhance customer service.
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Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 20, 2021
Some of you know my undergrad degree is in Psychology. I taught college psych several years before jumping into the customer service space. I apply psychological principles to all my work in de-escalation and call control. In last week’s super-fantastic 4-day De-escalation Academy , I taught my students how to use psychology to get angry customers to back down and accept their word as final.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 15, 2021
As we all interact more online than we ever have before, digital experiences are becoming an essential part of your CX. Like a physical experience, digital experiences should center around customers and focus on what they want so you can get what you want, customer-driven growth. However, there is also nothing wrong with giving people a little Digital Nudge in the right direction.
Steve DiGioia
JANUARY 21, 2021
Most people have a few go-to strategies that they follow during times of need. They’re comforted knowing they have a tried-and-true method that works for them and have tactics that have never let them down. I’m no different. Experience has shown us the way and we are better off because of it. So, what tactics work for you? Oh, you don’t want to give up your secrets.
CCNG
JANUARY 19, 2021
In a recent CCNG event, I spoke about the trends that I’m seeing globally in call centres. Many of the trends that my co-presenters spoke about are convergent (many people are moving to the same approach), the main example of that being the acceleration of cloud and home working driven by reactions to Covid-19. This acceleration of trends will continue through 2021 What’s happening at the agent level?
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ShepHyken
JANUARY 1, 2021
This week we feature an article from Jessica Fender , head of the content team at Alltopreviews.com. Sh e provides tips and examples of how to improve the customer experience with automated support emails. Email automation is a way to keep your customers happy. With automation, you improve the quality of communication and keep customers updated in a timely manner.
Callminer
JANUARY 18, 2021
Running a contact centre can be difficult, especially when your call centre operates in one geographic region while providing services to another. International contact centres face many of the same obstacles as domestic contact centres, but they must also overcome language and location-related barriers to function properly. With the added burden of soaring industry-wide turnover rates, leaders of international call centres must find new ways to keep operations under control while also keeping t
Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 13, 2021
We kicked off De-escalation Academy yesterday, and a student asked a question that I think is important for us to discuss here. His question was: “Our team is working 99% by email, will we able to apply everything that we learn here and translate it into a purely written environment? Any advice is appreciated.” Customers escalate in chat and email interactions intensely!
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 23, 2021
We recently spoke to Customer Experience experts who shared an interesting insight. They all say they wish people understood that there was no one thing to do, no silver-bullet-solution for Customer Experience. We couldn’t agree more. We believe that the best way to improve Customer Experiences is to do a lot of little things that add up to significant improvements.
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CX Accelerator
JANUARY 11, 2021
by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.
CCNG
JANUARY 13, 2021
At the recent CCNG Fireside Live Chat held in December I had the opportunity to provide my reflection on 2020 and what I predict will happen in 2021 alongside two other industry colleagues, Poly and Avtex. I want to share where we need to laser focus our attention in 2021: Voice channel Phone calls continue to be the primary choice of contact especially during the pandemic and I don’t foresee the trend of having a human-to-human conversation changing anytime soon.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 13, 2021
If you’ve been following my work, you know I’m a huge fan of the Ritz-Carlton. I was recently on a Zoom presentation with Horst Schulze , first president and co-founder of the Ritz-Carlton chain. When Horst speaks, I listen and take lots of notes. One of the questions he was asked had to do with empowerment, specifically about the $2,000 the Ladies and Gentlemen – what Ritz-Carlton calls its employees – are allowed to spend to ensure a guest has a great experience.
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