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Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments. Improving contact center quality is one of those activities that deliver perpetual benefits.
This article originally appeared on the CustomerThink blog as part of my monthly column on June 12, 2018. Click here to read the original. Not long ago I saw a demo of a cool product for gathering customer feedback called Stella Connect. They have a fun angle on customer satisfaction where customers are invited to rate their experience with the specific agent that helped them.
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I’ve been very fortunate to have gained different perspectives in the contact center industry. I’m so grateful for my frontline experience, but I also realize that since those days, I’ve been able to experience a significantly broader perspective on the entire industry. When it comes to problem solving and finding your best solution, it’s the broad experience that you want to leverage.
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