Fenero
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Do you remember the last time you called an 800 number and experienced the run around you get when attempting to follow the prompts? Were the menus confusing? Did the speech recognition feature clearly understand your responses? Did you provide the automated system with your account details and had to repeat it again for the customer service representative?
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Customer Service Life
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The text of this article originally appeared on the ICMI blog on December 5, 2018. Click here to read the original and click here to watch a video where I discuss the content of this article. Hint: Focus on Agent Performance. If you’ve sat through any customer service technology demos or walked the showroom floor at an industry conference, you’ve undoubtedly heard well-meaning sales folks speak of innovation, disruption, and automation.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. As I have written before , the results that we should be seeing are not there. It’s time to put up or shut up. If we as an industry do not turn it around, we might see our budgets and headcounts reassigned somewhere else. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerTh
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ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
I’m honored to be the keynote speaker later this year at Office Pride , a franchisor of commercial cleaning service companies. All of the franchisees will be attending their annual meeting to network and learn about the latest and greatest opportunities happening in their industry. My job is to talk to them about customer service. As part of my homework, Todd Hopkins, their CEO, shared the Office Pride Culture book.
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Myra Golden Media
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Inflammatory words and an aggressive tone heat up an interaction like an oven heats up a room. The five biggest mistakes I see customer service professionals make when talking to upset customers are: Aggressive tone – A direct or authoritative tone will quickly lead to an escalation in aggression or to a supervisor. Making threats – Spitting off, “Calm down or I can’t help you” will assuredly not make a customer calm down.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Organizations do not have the luxury of focusing solely on operations these days. Over the past decade, retail as an industry has changed. To survive, retailers must put the customer at the center of everything they do. That said, not everyone believes it yet. <!–more–> Not so long ago, I was having a conversation in the C-Suite of a company about Customer Experience.
ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
This week we feature an article by Christa Heibel who writes about how important employee feedback is to a successful customer service experience and high CSAT ratings. – Shep Hyken. In my past experience as both a consultant and owner/operator of a BPO, I understand that CSAT surveys tend to get all the attention. Of course, this is with good reason.
CX Accelerator
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Last week, Brittany Naylor (Vice President of Customer Support for Service Direct) queued up a wonderful topic in our CX Accelerator slack channel. It was "Next Issue Avoidance" and how support leaders are bringing this critical concept to life. For those not familiar, the idea of "Next Issue Avoidance" was introduced as part of "The Effortless Experience " in 2011.
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Callminer
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Learn 3 ways how you can improve your call center monitoring practices through call analysis and agent feedback. Including Analyze video!
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Beyond Philosophy won an award named one of the Best Management Consultancy Firms in the UK, by the Financial Times (FT). This was voted on by clients and peers, we couldn’t be more honored or proud. This bonus episode podcast explores how you can take your idea and turn it into an Financial Times Award-Winning consultancy, too. We share our 10-Step Plan for Success and ask our listeners, what would you do if you weren’t afraid?
ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Big Ass Fans. Growing Customer Service Alongside Your Company. Shep Hyken interviews Brian Sprinkle. They discuss his company, Big Ass Fans , and their approach to providing high-quality customer service to support their industry-leading products. In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He compares the profitability of customer acquisition versus customer retention.
Convoso
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
VSA searched for a single contact center platform that would eliminate the inefficiencies created by using various CRM systems and dialer capabilities not at all suited for a unique client this company needed to support. With the existing systems, VSA would have been developing manual and time-consuming work-around processes.
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TechSee
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
If 2018 was a year when customer experience professionals came under intense pressure to map out tangible results from heavy investment, 2019 is shaping up to be the year when next generation customer experience will deliver on the promise of a wide range of new technologies. Three key drivers are at the core of this. ROI is fundamental, as C-suite executives at leading service providers demand measurable returns from their outlay.
Contact Center Pipeline
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Ready, willing and able is a self-explanatory idiom that describes an enthusiastic, well-prepared and eager response to change. Changes are abundant as we continue to move from 20th century approaches to the 21st in contact center management, infrastructure and technology. All indicators are contact centers must get serious about digital readiness that supports access to […].
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Beyond Philosophy won an award named one of the Best Management Consultancy Firms in the UK, by the Financial Times (FT). This was voted on by clients and peers, we couldn’t be more honored or proud. This bonus episode podcast explores how you can take your idea and turn it into an Financial Times Award-Winning consultancy, too. We share our 10-Step Plan for Success and ask our listeners, what would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Myra Golden Media
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
I’ve learned the most potent de-escalation tactics known from the martial art Aikido, trial lawyers, law enforcement, a former FBI hostage negotiator, and the greatest escalation agents in customer service. And on Friday, March 1st I’m hosting my refashioned De-escalation Training in a webinar. Join me and I’ll give your customer service employees the power to get any customer to back down. –Myra.
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Vonage
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The phone is often the medium that matters in moments of truth, whether it’s a service call or an inside sales call making the first contact. To the customer, the ideal interaction often feels like a conversation – just the customer and the company representative, talking through the issues together, person to person. But well-equipped contact center managers know that those conversations may not be as one-on-one as the customers think – and for a very good reason.
Ian Jacobs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Consumers really don’t like your chatbot. It’s not exactly a relationship built to last – a few clicks here, a few sentences there – but Forrester Analytics shows us very clearly that, to consumers, your chatbot isn’t exactly “swipe right” material. That’s unfortunate, because using a chatbot for customer service can be incredibly effective when […].
Nextiva
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Customer satisfaction is more important today than ever before. Given the large number of choices consumers have in almost every market, companies that listen to their customers have a distinct advantage. A customer satisfaction survey is an invaluable tool for both small business owners and large corporations. Surveys can help determine how customers are feeling […].
HelpCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
If you have a small business, your perfect customer service tool is somewhere in the borderland between functionality and pricing. With that in mind, we compared 14 different customer service tools. The post 14 best customer service tools for a small business in 2019 appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
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Contact Center Pipeline
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Please take a few moments and see what our February issue has to offer. We cover many of those topics that challenge us every day, like training, performance management tools, analytics, recruiting and staffing, conversational user interfaces, interview techniques, artificial intelligence and more. Please enjoy. Download the Full IssueContact Center Pipeline February 2019 To download […].
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Event planning is an adventure, to say the least. Locking down the venue, getting people registered, promoting it across channels, working out the logistics… the list goes on and on. Before you know it, the day arrives. Even if it goes off without a hitch, the event doesn’t end when the clock strikes 12. Success is more than a day-of checklist.
CrazyCall
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Objections are a common occurrence in sales, even with the best pitch out there you can still get “NO” for an answer. There are several reasons for sales objection, related to price, trust, and a product. Let’s talk about common sales objections and the best ways to overcome them. After you read this article, handling objections is going to be a piece of cake for you.
Taylor Reach Group
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Lean Management is a customer-centric methodology used to improve the current business process by using the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) technique. Following the DMAIC blueprint will provide organizations insight into what the actual root cause problem is by measuring and analyzing various data sets, and developing process flow maps to understand the “as is” state.
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360Connext
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Touchpoints aren’t what they used to be. There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. We could list them easily and agree easily to what they were. The list might have 5-6 things on it for a sophisticated organization. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ a brand team might list something like the following. advertising. signage. in-store interactions. packaging. customer service calls.
ProProfs Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Twenty three percent consumers seek face-to-face interaction for complicated customer service issues like troubleshooting. But only 5% of customer service interactions begin with a face-to-face meeting. Now, did you notice something? Interactions are essential for both your customers and for your business; so to get it right is all the more important today.
Liveops
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Lifelong advocate helps callers and community from home. Sharon Meeks DuBouse brings decades of experience to her work as a customer agent for Liveops. In fact, Sharon had not only an entire career before joining Liveops Nation in 2009, she was a leader in creating some of the nation’s first outsourced call centers in the 1980s. Sharon got her start in the contact center world shortly after attending University of Florida.
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