Waterfield Technologies
MARCH 6, 2019
What does moving your Contact Center to the cloud mean to the customer? Are there benefits? Calling into a contact center is never a favorite task of anyone. We know […]. The post Modernize Your Contact Center – Move to the Cloud appeared first on Waterfield Technologies.
Calltools
MARCH 6, 2019
You need the right tools for any job. A plumber is nothing without a good pipe wrench. So what do you need to provide your call center with? The more comfortable you make your employees the happier and more productive they will be. Does your call center have the right tools for the job? Here 5 things every call center needs to be successful. 1) Comfortable Ergonomic Chairs Your call center employees spend most of their working hours in their desk chair.
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InTheChat
MARCH 5, 2019
March is Women’s History Month – which was created to educate and promote the achievements of women who have often been overlooked. Often when we think about the modern telecommunications industry, the pioneers we think of tend to. The post Women who made the modern contact center possible appeared first on InTheChat.
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 8, 2019
One thing many positive Customer Experience stories people tell have in common is they involve a moment that surprised and delighted customers. Customer loyalty consultants refer to it as Innovative Customer Experience, and it is the key to getting your customers to talk about your experience to everyone they know. Author, speaker, and customer loyalty expert Dr.
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Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.
ShepHyken
MARCH 6, 2019
Winter travel can be stressful with the concern of weather-related delays and cancellations. On a recent trip that had a connecting flight, I was notified the night before that my first flight was going to be delayed, which made me worry about missing my connection. I called the airlines and they suggested changing my connecting flight to a later one, which I was happy to do.
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Callminer
MARCH 6, 2019
Companies look to solicited feedback, surveys, review sites, etc. for how they are doing. Here are 6 ways to go beyond that with speech analytics.
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 7, 2019
I am routinely gobsmacked by the number of organizations that don’t measure customer emotions. Those that do often don’t think about how they will use the information they measure. The classic phrase, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” applies. To measure something like customer emotions in your Customer Experience, you need the proper tools.
ShepHyken
MARCH 8, 2019
This week we feature an article by Jason Milleisen who shares three simple rules that will set you apart from your competition and help provide great customer service. – Shep Hyken. I once heard about a car dealership who had customer satisfaction scores that were the impressively high. When asked about it, the owner explained one of the secrets to their success.
Myra Golden Media
MARCH 6, 2019
The first thing I read on my iPhone this morning was the interestingly trending Gayle King interview with R&B singer R. Kelly. In the interview, the singer cries, rants at the camera, beats his chest, and stands, towering over Gayle King with warlike body language. The CBS This Morning crew stopped the interview to give R. Kelly the chance to compose himself.
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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.
Callminer
MARCH 5, 2019
The CallMiner Customer Experience Solution Pack is designed to harness data, as well as accelerate time to insight with a categorization framework designed around best practices in measuring CX.
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 4, 2019
We develop emotional intelligence as children once we understand how other people feel. Based on the behavior of a few of our fellow humans, some of us more than others. Now, machines are developing emotional intelligence as well. The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast.
ShepHyken
MARCH 3, 2019
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. Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable. by Anthony Dukes and Yi Zhu. (Harvard Business Review) It’s a familiar scenario: A service provider fails to live up to your expectations and you feel some restitution may be in order.
Contact Center Pipeline
MARCH 7, 2019
Customer Experience (CX) as a term may have many definitions, but it is generally accepted that it is all about creating personalized, seamless, low-effort customer interactions. By its very nature, CX takes a holistic view. It isn’t focused on just self-service or just agent engagement because customers no longer need to make a binary decision […].
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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.
Call Center Weekly
MARCH 4, 2019
Errol Allen ? Errol Allen is an operations consultant and customer service expert. Using his 25 + years of corporate experience with companies such as ADT, The Houston Post, TCI Cablevision and GEICO, Errol assists his clients in developing a customer focused environment via documenting processes, creating task manuals, identifying key performance indicators and providing customer service training.
ProProfs Blog
MARCH 6, 2019
Gone are the days when companies considered integrating live chat to their websites. Today, they are aware of its influence and impact on customers. It is no longer considered but needed to gain benefits like: Building delightful experience with proactive support approach. Learning the customer’s behavior and pain points. Building personalized customer support experience.
ShepHyken
MARCH 5, 2019
Excellent Decisions from the Cofounder of the Ritz-Carlton. Aligning Your Organization to a Company-wide Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Horst Schulze, the cofounder and COO of Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. They discuss Schulze’s new book, Excellence Wins , and how he succeeded in creating one of the best hotel companies in the world by developing and sustaining a culture of excellence.
Lumoa
MARCH 3, 2019
There are clear reasons why companies should create an outstanding customer experience for their customers. Take a look at what you can learn from the best customer experience companies of 2019 and find out how to apply it to your customer experience work.
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!
Contact Center Pipeline
MARCH 5, 2019
Welcome to our 10-Year Anniversary issue! The March issue represents 10 years of publishing Contact Center Pipeline! It is with sincere gratitude to our team; Susan, Frank, Mark, Ellen and Sarah for all their hard work in keeping Pipeline fresh and relevant, as well as our writers, sponsors and subscribers! There has been lots of […].
Fonolo
MARCH 5, 2019
Customer service is a difficult job at the best of times. However, when your customers are patients, the dynamic becomes all the more challenging. Dealing with patients who are in crisis or pain, and on top of that, are emotionally drained, can create increasingly sensitive scenarios for call center agents to handle. This is why handling call center conversations within the healthcare field requires a unique set of skills.
TechSee
MARCH 7, 2019
The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. With this high turnover presenting a significant challenge to contact centers in terms of cost, productivity and morale, it is not surprising that there’s an ongoing global trend towards fostering agent development and enhancing their day-to-day activities.
Nextiva
MARCH 5, 2019
Brilliant sales contest ideas can motivate your sales team to reach unprecedented heights. Sales competitions tap into core aspects of human psychology, unearthing new levels of drive, focus, and energy in your sales reps. The virtues of healthy competition are well-documented. According to Psychology Today, “good competitiveness is the drive to accomplish a goal, bring […].
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Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.
Aspect
MARCH 8, 2019
You may be familiar with ACE, our annual user conference. But what you think you know is about to be turned on its head. This is a new Aspect, and it’s a new ACE. We’re doing things differently. Instead of sticking with the status quo, we’re shaking things up and supercharging the conference based on feedback from past attendees. One of the things we’re most excited about for ACE 2019, which will be held at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, July 29 – August 1, is our revamped agenda.
Fonolo
MARCH 6, 2019
When I first stepped foot into the Fonolo office nearly a year ago, I was also knowingly dipping my toes into the customer service ecology. With the abundance of experts, thought leaders, Twitter handles, and publications that make up the DNA of both the customer service and customer experience industries, it quickly became clear that the learning curve would be steep.
Contact Center Pipeline
MARCH 6, 2019
In November 2008, the idea of creating a magazine for the contact center industry was born. I had left my job after a number of years in the industry working on training, membership, consulting and publications. My husband Steve and I had sold our family home, purchased a 46-foot Cheoy Lee Trawler and we were […].
TELUS International
MARCH 6, 2019
What makes a great chatbot? Here's a look at five shining examples of conversational bots.
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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.
Taylor Reach Group
MARCH 8, 2019
By Colin Taylor. What is a high performance contact center? High performance is generally accepted to mean performing at the top of any possible performance range. So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade of services, AHT, ATT, ASA etc., and qualitative: First Call Resolution, Customer Satisfaction, Quality scores etc., measures.
TechSee
MARCH 5, 2019
Claims processing is a key touchpoint in the customer life cycle, and insurers have only a short window of opportunity to satisfy policyholders. Companies that strategize their efforts to improve insurance claims processing can expect higher levels of operational efficiency. They’ll also improve financial results and serve happier customers. While each claim is different, standardized elements of claims processing can be streamlined with the strategic implementation of new technologies.
Customer Service Life
MARCH 6, 2019
This article was originally published on the FCR blog on February 7, 2019. Click here to read the original post. It’s official. I’ve completely caught the fly fishing bug — an unavoidable consequence given the abundance of fishable water here in Oregon. New in 2019, the state moved to an online system for fishing and hunting licenses which means we can now carry our licenses in an app on our phones rather than toting around a piece of paper.Eager to start fishing as soon as possible, I tried to
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