Steve DiGioia
JANUARY 3, 2022
We all speak about expectations, customer expectations. They can be reasonable or extreme, and sometimes achievable or bizarre. But usually, they are appropriate. As a customer, I expect a basic minimum such as: The product or service should work as expected. The product or service should be reasonably priced and in line with similar products. The product or service should be safe to use.
Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 3, 2022
After the busy Christmas and Boxing Day shopping season, returns start. And if you’ve ever worked in retail or a contact center, you know how challenging this time of year can be. Returns and exchanges make things more complicated because customers making returns are more likely to be already unhappy. So, we need to have a strategy for handling these situations.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 1, 2022
Our listeners have problems and they let us know about it. For our I’m in a Pickle feature on the podcast, Tina in New Zealand wrote to us because the engineering firm she works with thinks customer relationships are a waste of time. She wants to know how to convince the engineers that customer relationships are what get the customer strategy gears turning toward long-term success.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 5, 2022
I love to receive great examples of outstanding customer service. I’m always on the lookout for great stories, whether I personally experience them, or they are sent in by our followers. What I share with you today is a great example of personalized and proactive communication. While I provide the lessons, the example comes from one of our subscribers, Dawn Mushill, who shared a letter that BarkBox wrote to one of its customers.
Advertisement
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.
Callminer
JANUARY 5, 2022
Even with the aid of technology innovations, being a top-performing sales professional requires skill and finesse. Here are 25 of the best sales books that can help you refine your craft in 2022.
Customer Contact Central brings together the best content for Contact Center and Customer Service professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 4, 2022
How do you build a long-term relationship with customers? Tina works for an engineering company in Australia and recently joined the New Zealand office. Tina’s key focus is on Customer Experience and development, and she wants her team to change their transactional approach to customer strategy. So, today, we will talk about convincing people that having a relationship with customers is a good idea.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 4, 2022
Intelligent Virtual Assistant. The Opportunities and Fears Surrounding Intelligent Virtual Assistant. Shep Hyken interviews Genefa Murphy, the Chief Marketing Officer for Five9. They discuss how to use AI and automation to increase efficiency, capacity, and effectiveness within your contact center and ultimately deliver a better customer experience.
Callminer
JANUARY 3, 2022
There are many ways to measure customer satisfaction. Read this blog to learn about the most common measurement types and how they impact your brand.
Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 4, 2022
Welcome to 2022 and the January issue of Contact Center Pipeline. I hope the new year brings much health and happiness. This is an exciting month. We are sharing our board members’ thoughts on what 2022 will bring for our contact centers in Brendan’s article this month, Moving Forward: What Will 2022 Bring for Contact […].
Advertisement
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.
Bill Quiseng
JANUARY 3, 2022
Is customer service the frontline? Really? Are we called to duty on the frontline battling customers? Doctors and nurses don’t serve their ailing patients. They care. So shouldn’t customer service be customer care? Or even better …. We are the Customer CARE team. We CARE for each member of our team: We COMMUNICATE with each other. We listen to our team’s questions, concerns, and complaints with empathy and compassion.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 7, 2022
Josh Liebman is the Guest Experience Evangelist for ROLLER Software , a company that works with leisure and entertainment businesses to help them deliver better guest experiences. He shares the four reasons why businesses should not shy away from customer complaints. Complaint resolution and service recovery must be a critical aspect of your customer experience strategy.
360Connext
JANUARY 5, 2022
Imagine yourself a year from today. Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. How did this happen? It started with a plan – including immediate foundational steps to take, secondary growth, and longer-term strategies for continued success.
Contact Center Pipeline
JANUARY 5, 2022
Let’s face it. Most folks involved in contact centers today are there to help, provide service or sell something. Customer experience excellence is a desirable attribute of these encounters, and excellence has a great dependency on effective “processes.” When encounters are simultaneously efficient and cost-effective… it is quite the business “trifecta.
Advertisement
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.
TechSee
JANUARY 4, 2022
As 2021 comes to a close, TechSee takes a look back on a memorable year, as detailed in the ‘Year in Review’ article below. TechSee’s visual assistance solutions simplify the way people deal with technology, and are being quickly adopted far and wide as more and more companies embrace visual transformation. Check out our year in review infographic for a visualization of TechSee’s 2021. 2021 Year in Review.
SharpenCX
JANUARY 3, 2022
For nearly two years, companies have had to meet the flexible needs of their employees. Remote work is here to stay for many industries, but even more so, the future is a flexible workforce. In order to retain top talent, employers must be ahead of the curve to meet new employee expectations heading into the new year. With labor shortages expected to continue through 2022 , managers must place employee and talent retention as a first priority.
Transparent BPO
JANUARY 5, 2022
Nearshore and Offshore options offer quality, cost-competitive alternative By Dean Birtwell, Vice President, Business Development, Transparent BPO The start of a new year traditionally gives us a sense of renewal. A fresh start. A chance to turn the page. A time for new resolutions and a new outlook. Professionally, the new fiscal year is an […].
C3Centricity
JANUARY 3, 2022
Happy New Year to all you Customer-first strategists. May your year by bright and your customers surprised and delighted! Each January we like to celebrate our most popular posts on customer centricity that were published on C3Centricity during the year. Just like 2020, covid has forced all of us to be a little more creative and a little less demanding in our 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!
Spearline
JANUARY 6, 2022
Analysts predict that cloud-hosted Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) will become the dominant adoption model, exceeding 50% in 2022. In fact, estimates indicate that 57% have already migrated their CRM systems to the cloud, or are in process of doing so today. Call center cloud migration features in many 2022 business plans. Inbound voice reigns Voice continues to be the primary customer contact channel.
HelpCrunch
JANUARY 6, 2022
Wherever you look, you will have to possess certain knowledge. In school, at home, or at work. By the way, in the business world, the know-how becomes even a greater necessity. Judge for yourself: every [ … ]. The post 10 Full-Throated Examples of Knowledge Management Systems You’ll Want to Reproduce appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.
Toister Performance Solutions
JANUARY 6, 2022
Paul Harvey was on the radio in my house a lot when I was a kid. Harvey was famous for a segment called "the rest of the story" where he shared a forgotten story or little-known fact about a famous person or event. Each ended with with a surprise twist and his famous phrase, "And now you know. the rest of the story!" We often miss the rest of the story when we interact with customers.
Nicereply
JANUARY 4, 2022
It’s not that important what kind of business you do. Providing good customer support is what matters in the end. Why? We are humans that live in their social bubbles. If we like it or not, we are surrounded by brands and products we bought thanks to someone’s recommendations. There are many ways to provide a great customer experience. Most of the time it isn’t about big gestures, but about the little kind acts customer support managers do for us.
Advertisement
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.
Help Scout
JANUARY 5, 2022
The new year brings new opportunities to create the customer experiences we all want to deliver. Here are our predictions for customer service trends in 2022.
ConvergeOne
JANUARY 4, 2022
Most organizations are either just starting out on their cloud journey or are already well on their way. It’s no longer really an option for organizations to embrace cloud, as CEOs and boardroom executives have said that digital transformation is one of their top three priorities. At the same time, adopting cloud entails change, and change sometimes causes resistance, along with risk and fear of the unknown.
Nextiva
JANUARY 7, 2022
On November 15, 2015, Slack, a chat app used by millions, went offline. In an instant, teams lost contact with each other, meetings abruptly ended, and collaboration halted. It didn’t take long for customers to flock to Twitter with frustration. For most companies, this would’ve been catastrophic. But then something unexpected happened. Every one of […].
Quality Contact Solutions
JANUARY 7, 2022
Outsourcing work to a third-party BPO services company is common among businesses. At this point, I’d suggest that most everyone understands what outsourcing is, at least the overall concept. While business process outsourcing has been around a while, let’s look at what BPO services are, why they work, and how your company can engage with a BPO provider.
Advertisement
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.
ChurnZero
JANUARY 6, 2022
Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. In this article, we cover how profit centers and cost centers differ, as well as how Customer Success teams can position themselves to be viewed as a profitable function by: Emphasizing their value with the right metrics.
Hello Customer
JANUARY 6, 2022
Customers nowadays want everything easy and we can't really blame them for that. Not everything has to be hard and complicated, especially when you're using a service or browsing online. Long queues, having to wait for hours to talk to customer support or browsing an old website that you have to refresh every 2 minutes. It can be the last straw that will make your customers leave you for someone else.
Russel Lolacher
JANUARY 5, 2022
Whether you’re trying to start a successful social media presence for your public service organization or grow an existing one to better serve the public and your organization, there are a few key ingredients you’ll need to be impactful. And if you don’t have them, you’re going to suck or stall. And certainly not meet the growing expectations the public has for digital engagement.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
351 
Let's personalize your content