August, 2018

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5 Benefits of Collecting Metrics to Identify Common Contact Reasons

Callminer

No matter what industry you serve, chances are your customers have high expectations. As a contact center, it is your primary responsibility to understand and manage customer expectations. That includes determining if customers feel their needs are being met on every call. Collecting this valuable speech and text data or over all interaction data is just the first step in managing customer expectations though.

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5 Coaching Techniques That Will Move the Needle

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on June 13, 2018. Click here to read the original. While I’ve certainly had my share of coaching conversations in my career while working to help contact center agents improve quality and performance, it felt incredibly presumptive to position myself as the authority on the topic when I happen to work with a bunch of coaching experts here at FCR.

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Six Critical Principles Businesses Are Ignoring – Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

A theory is great. It gets you thinking, designing and planning. However, unless you take all the theory and the work you built around it and implement it, it is entirely useless. Today, I present six critical questions you need to ask when implementing Customer Experience theory in your Customer Experience reality. The concept of implementing the plans you make from theory is significant to me.

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The Best Advice for Contact Centers in 2018: The Experts Weigh In

Fonolo

It’s a noisy little planet we live on. In contemporary times, the deafening sounds of the outside world via the news, social media, the subway, the radio, the street, and even the phone lines can distract us from our long-term professional and personal goals. It’s simply become too loud. This is especially true for those of us involved in the cacophony of contact centers; we are essentially the appointed, trusted ‘brand listeners’ who hear many, many voices on a given day, including those of bot

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Treat Your Employees Like Rock Stars

ShepHyken

When you treat employees like rock stars, they will treat your customers like rock stars. That is what employee engagement is all about. Great leaders have preached that when you treat your employees well, they treat their customers – and fellow employees well. My friend and fellow customer experience expert, James Dodkins, has a great way of saying it: If you want to put your customers first, you need to put your employees first, first.

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5 Benefits of Collecting Metrics to Identify Common Contact Reasons

Callminer

Once you’ve collected the data, you need to do something with it to improve the customer experience and deliver exceptional customer service consistently. Actionable analytics is key.

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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Are Your Customers About To Dump You?

Beyond Philosophy

I have had the same mobile (cell phone) company in the UK for around 25 years. However, I am about to leave them—and they don’t know it. With my imminent departure on the horizon, I wondered how do organizations avoid customer defection? It turns out that customers usually indicate they are going to leave, and you can see it in their habits. I see it happen all too often as a global Customer Experience consultant.

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T-Mobile: No Bouncing, No Bad Bots, No BS

Aspect

Yesterday at a media event in Charleston, South Carolina, the CEO of T-Mobile, John Legere, revealed their next big move. My initial thought was what could possibly be a bigger move than offering free Netflix ? Turns out, a full revamp of their customer service as well as a year free of Pandora (double win!). At first glance, you might not think a revamp of customer service is that big of a deal – which is understandable.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The Convenience Question: How Easy Am I to Do Business With?

ShepHyken

Over the years I’ve taught a concept I refer to as the One Thing Question. This is a very simple question to use in a survey as a follow-up to the simple survey question, like the Net Promoter Score question (NPS). For those that may not be familiar with the NPS survey question, it is simply this: On a scale of zero to ten, what is the likelihood that you would recommend us to a friend, colleague or family member.

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How to Make Your Agents Feel Like They’re on Summer Vacation

Fonolo

Just like me, you probably remember dozens of random 1-800 phone conversations with Johns, Jacobs, or Janes. They have called us from contact centers in the middle of the work day, when we ourselves were working on getting through that jerk chicken during a barely 15-minute lunch break. If I am not wrong, then it is safe to say that nine out of 10 times, we have hung up after the robotic, brief introduction and then wondered why they bothered calling us in the first place.

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Putting Customer Conversations to Work in the Call Center

Callminer

Customers have conversations with more than one department in your organization during the customer lifecycle journey. Customer interaction analytics throughout the relationship is key to success.

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Here’s What’s In the Mind of Your Unreasonable Customers

Myra Golden Media

When a customer reaches out to you about a problem, they usually don’t think things will be easy. They expect to enter a fray. To customers, it’s them against you. Visually, it’s like this. There’s a brick wall between you and your customer. You are on one side of the wall, and your customer is on the other. The customer sees the issue they’re trying to get resolved as being on the same side of the brick wall as you.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Understanding the Rules of Customer Decision Making

Beyond Philosophy

Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton discuss how to understand the rules of customer decision making. If you don’t know how customers make decisions you cannot influence them to best effect. Explore the decision-making process and listen for actionable advice you can use today. The post Understanding the Rules of Customer Decision Making appeared first on.

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4 Ways to Stop Being a Business of No

Steve DiGioia

you gotta be kidding with all these rules. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You took out a big loan to open your business; maybe even got a second mortgage on your home. Then, product and supplies were ordered on credit cards. You even convinced your spouse and kids to work there because there’s no money left for payroll. But you opened a “business of no”.

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Don’t Blame Me. I Just Work Here.

ShepHyken

I can’t make this “stuff” up. It really happened! The other night I was at a very nice – and very expensive – steakhouse restaurant. This place was top rated for their steaks and seafood. We all ordered a salad. As the server was setting down the salads, we noticed that one of the salads had a tiny portion of salad compared to the others. It was less than half the amount.

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Now Entering the Workforce: Rethinking Jobs for Gen Z

Contact Center Pipeline

Many brands and organizations are focusing on recruiting and retaining younger workers, typically thought of as the millennial generation. On college campuses, however, professors and foodservice executives have noticed the arrival of a new group with distinctly different values and requirements. This group is Gen Z, currently aged eight to 22, who are now moving […].

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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What is Collection Analytics? Definitions, Benefits, and More

Callminer

Collection strategies help to determine which accounts have a higher probability of losses, categorize the different types of customers, and prioritize and target customers.

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4 Social Media Services Contact Centers Provide Businesses

Outsource Consultants

A recent article by Manuel Solis discusses customer engagement. Not just a company’s attempts at engaging with their customers, but customers engaging with the company as well. In order to foster engagement, companies need to build relationships with their customers through social media strategies and by putting out content on the internet that can actually be helpful and useful for their audience.

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Leading Your Customer to the Right Choice

Beyond Philosophy

Choice Architecture, a principle that psychologists have studied for decades, is the concept that describes how the presentation of information affects people’s decision-making. Framing is the tone you use to present your options. How you frame the choices changes your results. These two concepts can help you present your goods or services to customers in ways that influence them to respond the way that you want and drive more value ($$$$) for your organization.

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Hall of Fame Contact Center Advice for Modern Times

CX Global Media

Not too long ago, all of our skilled jobs were learned and developed through apprenticeships and mentoring. And to capture some of the wisest contact center advice we often have to look to our mentors to guide us. I was humbled and reminded of this fact as I spent some time asking Gerry Barber some questions at ICMI’s Contact Center Expo. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation: Jim Rembach : Hey, I’m with Gerry Barber.

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The Rise of the AI Coaching System: Powering the Empathic Enterprise

Contact center leaders understand that frontline agents need in-call guidance to manage complex calls and drive higher levels of employee and customer experience. Real-time agent assist technology is enabling leading contact centers to accomplish these goals.

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Amazing Business Radio: Bob Baker

ShepHyken

Amazing Customer Service Tips From A Doctor. Techniques from the stage to optimize the patient/customer experience. Shep Hyken sits down with Dr. Bob Baker. They discussed his new book The Performance Of Medicine , how Bob relates his experiences as a magician and doctor to customer service, and how to optimize the customer/patient experience. There is a lot that anyone and any business can learn from Dr.

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What Makes A Great Leader?

Call Center Weekly

By Kathy Holdaway Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. - Warren G. Bennis Leadership is an art and a science. It is an art because it continually evolves, changes form, and requires creativity.

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Collections Success Stories in the Contact Center [Video]

Callminer

We are happy to share three video success stories from customer's that utilized speech analytics and automated scoring to achieve their overall goals.

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What You Can Learn About Chat From Amazon’s Chat Agents

Myra Golden Media

Last week I worked with a fantastic new client in Cleveland on the chat customer experience. After my workshop in Ohio, I chatted with Amazon about a problem with my Kindle Oasis. I immediately made screenshots of my chat and sent the images to my Cleveland client. My hope is that my takeaways might help my customer as they prepare to go live with chat in just a few weeks.

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The Innovator’s Guide to the Digital-first Contact Center

In the contact center industry, first-generation digital channels like email and web chat have seen significant adoption, along with video chat and co-browsing capabilities. However, customers are rapidly moving beyond these channels, seeking next-generation options. Social platforms are now becoming mainstream contact center channels. Download this guide today to learn how to help your business adapt to this evolving landscape and leverage the power of next-generation digital customer service.

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Why People Don’t Say What They Mean?

Beyond Philosophy

Many times, people do not say what they mean or what they are thinking. Why is this? What are the implications on a customers experience? In this special interview with expert Steven Gaffney we look at the role of honest communication to improve workplace quality and the Customer Experience. Find out more at [link]. The post Why People Don’t Say What They Mean?

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How to Create Good Customer Service Goals

Toister Performance Solutions

Advertising disclosure: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. "I have six minutes to solve their problem, and it's not enough time." The technical support agent was sharing her struggle with her contact center's talk time goal.

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Try the Coffee

ShepHyken

Someone once said that if you want to know if the company is treating their employees well, try the coffee. The coffee? Really? Okay, I get it. One little detail can give you a glimpse into a much bigger picture. The idea is that the coffee machine and the quality of the coffee is an indication of how the employees are treated. One day we hired an employee to work at Shepard Presentations.

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