Toister Performance Solutions
MAY 10, 2018
Channel switching gets a bad rap in customer service. If you are not familiar with the term, it refers to situations where a customer starts an interaction with a company in one channel and the interaction moves to another channel. The customer sometimes initiates this. For instance, a customer might email a company with a question and then call a day later when she does not get a response.
ShepHyken
MAY 9, 2018
The other day a buddy shared an experience he had with a company that sold him mulch for his yard. When the truck arrived, he asked the driver and his co-worker to put the mulch in the backyard. The driver said, “I’m sorry. Dropping the mulch off in the backyard is considered white-glove service. You needed to let us know you wanted the mulch in the backyard when you ordered it.
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Brad Cleveland Blog
MAY 10, 2018
In recent years, I have seen a trend to streamline and simplify agent performance standards. In many cases, they had become too complex — weighted averages, percent time in this and that mode, formulas that would take a mathematician to figure out.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 11, 2018
I was texting with my daughter the other day and there was a pause in the conversation. I could see the three little dots. Surely she was typing a clever response to the remark I’d just made. I couldn’t wait to see it, so I sat there, phone in hand, staring stupidly at the little dots. I went on like this for maybe a minute and a half before I realized I was being silly.
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Callminer
MAY 8, 2018
Overall, customer culture is evolving, and consumers have a desire for more accessible communication methods that let them interact with businesses when they want and from wherever they are.
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Steve DiGioia
MAY 7, 2018
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Those of us in the customer service industry have much to deal with. Payroll, purchases, inventory, market share, etc. take a lion’s share of our daily tasks. But, there’s one thing I left out: the customers. No matter what we deal with we must also deal with the occasional upset customer (whether we like it or not).
Call Center Weekly
MAY 9, 2018
What can brands do better on social media, to truly connect and engage consumers? I think that it starts with brands recognizing that consumers are actual people. Overall, I think the tendency is for brands to still look at social media as another marketing channel where we just get to tell our audience all about our products or how cool we are. While we are starting to see a slight shift away from that mindset, most brands are still treating social media as a digital billboard or a mobile print
Callminer
MAY 10, 2018
Whether clients fail to pay because of poor health, lost employment, or a poor customer service experience, they can fall behind with payments and prevent you from collecting revenue.
ShepHyken
MAY 7, 2018
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. Overstock’s customer service texts have a 98 percent open rate by Ilyse Liffreing. (Digiday) Overstock.com knows the days are long gone when people would call or email about problems with its products or service.
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CX Accelerator
MAY 8, 2018
Let’s imagine, for one moment, that you’re casting your agents and customers in a movie. What roles would they play? Would your agents make their screen debut as wise sages, imparting knowledge and truth to help spur your customers to a glorious conclusion in their customer service journey? Or would your agents be more like sword-wielding fighters, battling to defeat angry customer ogres before they burn your contact center to the ground?
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 11, 2018
How can we guide our customer’s decision-making through the menu of options we provide? How can you structure your offering to make it most attractive to customers? The post Leading Your Customer To The Right Choice appeared first on.
Call Center Weekly
MAY 10, 2018
By Sarah Elkins I tell people it was my favorite job ever. When our boys were little, I had the opportunity to work part time at the circulation desk at our local library. The boys grew up in that library and are still recognized when they walk in the door, more than 10 years after I stopped working there. Every evening after a shift when we would sit down for dinner, my husband would ask: "what happened today?
ShepHyken
MAY 8, 2018
Deliver a Customer Experience That Would Make Mom Proud. Would your customers agree that your service is so good, you’d make mom proud? Shep Hyken sits down with Jeanne Bliss, author of Would You Do That to Your Mother? The “Make Mom Proud” Standard for How to Treat Your Customers , and discusses her book and the art of making customers happy. ?
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The Northridge Group
MAY 9, 2018
If your organization is like most, you might be overwhelmed by the volume of information available at your fingertips. To make it worse, the pace of this information continues to increase; data (lots of it) is being produced more rapidly than ever before. How can you capture this data and use it to help you and your organization make informed decisions, and ideally to predict future behavior and events?
Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 8, 2018
I read countless articles on how to reduce stress in the call center and often wonder, “Why is the contact center environment so traumatic?” Well, there are a few reasons for this. The first is quite obvious: Most call center horror stories feature an angry customer, venting their frustration about a faulty product or terrible […].
Call Center Weekly
MAY 7, 2018
By Diana Aviles Ingestion is Speech Analytics (SA) jargon that describes the act of the SA tool downloading a copy of call audio and its associated metadata from the recorder source. In a perfect world ingestion should run smoothly, however sometimes, just like people who get indigestion after binging on buffalo chicken pizza, ingestion has similar hiccups.
Fonolo
MAY 10, 2018
It’s happening: We’re collectively witnessing a “Frankenstein moment” on social media, and within the Internet in general. In 2018, companies, platforms, and users alike are keeping an even closer eye on privacy and, importantly, verified, trusted, and accurate content. Luckily, those seeking reliable sources for CX and CS-related topics can still rely on a special corner of the digital sphere, one which has made a comeback in recent months: Blogs.
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HGS
MAY 9, 2018
Creating Brand Distinction, Optimizing CX with Channel Management. By Anup Sukumar, Sr. Manager – Business Development. Today, “brand” is defined many ways—it could be a corporation, product, service, or person. Brand management is the process of recognizing the core value of a particular brand and communicating it to targeted customers, and it is a staple of the market.
Taylor Reach Group
MAY 11, 2018
By: Colin Taylor. Consolidating Contact Centers. Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These Call Centers can exist in a company’s divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium-sized businesses can find that they have five or more Call Centers in operation all acting independently.
Satrix Solutions
MAY 9, 2018
Here’s a question for you: Who in your organization receives the results and feedback from your Voice of the Customer program? The C-Suite? Your customer service or customer success team? If your answer isn’t “everyone,” you are shortchanging your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program—and the potential return on investment. The benefit of a well-executed VoC program is the impact it can have in every corner of your business.
Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 10, 2018
In this installment of the Lost in the Labyrinth series, I position the contact center as the enterprise “fuel” for revenue engines and the singular source of raw currency and customer intelligence in the digital age. Yet customers are impacted by the resistance to operational investment in the contact center. They are caught within a […].
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Peter Lavers
MAY 10, 2018
We’re delighted to report that WCL Customer Management director Peter Lavers has been named in Fonolo’s list of top Customer Experience (CX) experts to follow. Peter’s honoured to be included in this shortlist of great CX influencers and thought leaders. You can read the report here. Please get in touch with Peter if you’d like to discuss Customer Experience, CRM, or Customer Value Management.
Etech
MAY 9, 2018
Many of today’s adults remember a time when artificial intelligence was something mentioned only in relation to science fiction. Such mentions frequently involved futuristic self-driving vehicles, computers capable of taking over the world or robots that became so proficient, there was no real meaning in life for humans. Today, many of those adults could pause and take a look around and see that there is truly artificial intelligence everywhere.
Amity
MAY 6, 2018
Onboarding, a fresh beginning for both the "onboarder" and the "onboardee" It entails new relationships, new opportunities, and the bright aspirations of a young and budding customer that you want to bring to success. Most importantly, it marks the new beginnings of a customer’s journey, in which they are easily affected by any information and behavior that is given to them.
Contact Center Pipeline
MAY 9, 2018
People today may choose to communicate with organizations across various channels including phone, email, chat, SMS, social and walk-ins. When they do reach out, they expect to receive the same level of service regardless of which channel they’re using. That service needs be simple, efficient, personalized and consistent—at any place and any time. Businesses who […].
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Lumoa
MAY 7, 2018
A story of how a startup nailed customer relationships since day one. Many startups think that customer experience management equals unnecessary work and financial costs. However, more and more startups that emphasise the uniqueness of customer relationships are growing faster than ever. Some of the familiar names include the two fastest growing companies in the world , Slack and Intercom.
Comm100
MAY 10, 2018
Introduction. If you work in customer service, chances are you know the signs of a complaining customer. You might recognize them by their pointed tones, their defensive, often raised voices (over email or live chat, this may present itself as all caps writing), and their creative use of insults. You may recognize the way they hold up the line at checkout, the way they demand to speak to management, or the way a look of disbelief plants itself on their faces when they hear that what they are ask
Amity
MAY 10, 2018
A customer success plan is a blueprint by which both you and your customer can achieve mutual success. Are they really necessary? I mean, a lot of times, success is pretty obvious. If I have a Gmail account, isn’t success sending and receiving emails? How much more can it be? Maybe I chose Gmail because it was a light SaaS platform, or I have an Android phone, or because it's free vs. other options?
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