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This week we feature an article by Brett Patrontasch, CEO of Shyft. Brett provides three insightful ways to help improve customer satisfaction and employee empowerment. Most retail businesses understand that the best service strategies won’t succeed if store-level employees don’t feel motivated. When given proper training, support, and encouragement, employees can make your business.
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Convoso VP of Sales, Les Lent shares insights on why ghosting happens and how to avoid it. Ghosting is a relatively new term for an old sales problem. The Urban Dictionary defines “ghosting” as the practice of ending a relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already starting to impact customer service. This impact is certainly to grow immensely in size in the coming years. Employees in many customer service roles are beginning to wonder whether they will lose their job to a robot, whether or not their role will be replaced. There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there and it is incumbent on customer experience leaders to help guide their teams and try to allay these fears as much as pos
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In 2016, I spoke at a customer conference and the topic was, “Contact Center 2020.” At the time, 2020 seemed like it was forever away, and I had carte blanche to forecast whatever I wanted to about the potential state of the contact center in 2020. I opened the session with a brief clip from […].
I saw this written on a resume the other day. One of her past job duties was “ Joyfully greeted guests “ My first reaction was, “What kind of B.S. is that to write? You must be padding your resume ‘cause you can’t be that good. Then I started to think… How does one joyfully greet a guest (customer)? I ran a scenario through my mind of someone browsing through rack after rack of clothes when a store employee pounces over and says “Hey, good afternoon.
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