Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 5, 2017

One of the annoying things about business travel is that you tend to need things in your hotel room at the worst time. More shampoo when you’re still in your pajamas. A mending kit to repair a button in time for your dinner meeting. The hotel staff, while generally helpful and accommodating, has other things to do. So you wait. It’s not the best customer experience, but if you travel often, you learn to live with it.

Consulting 358

Consulting Consulting Personalization Customer Experience 358

ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2017

Every week, I’m asked, “What is changing in customer service?” The expected answer is that I’ll talk about all the new ways customer service and support is conducted – and I do. There’s self-service solutions that include robust frequently asked questions and video. There’s social media customer service with multiple channels like Facebook and Twitter.

Customer Service 284

Customer Service Self service Personalization Technology 284

Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2017

The future of work and the impact that artificial intelligence will have on the workforce has been a hot topic lately. The publicity has been a bit unsettling, though, given the tendency to couple the acronym AI with the word “replace”—as in “AI Will Replace Half of All Jobs in the Next Decade” or “Could […].

Agent Empowerment 265

Agent Empowerment Contact Center Call Center Technology 265

Callminer

JUNE 4, 2017

there are two factors that consistently have a major impact on customer satisfaction, and therefore on your overall efficiency: talk time and handle time.

Contact Center 182

Contact Center 182

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 7, 2017

Trust in the four major global institutions, namely government, business, media and non-government organizations, has taken a massive knock in the last several months, to the point where rebuilding trust has not only become a nice-to-have, but an absolute imperative, if these institutions are to survive. This is according to the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer , a survey which tells a pretty dire tale of the disintegrating trust people feel in established institutions.

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CX Global Media

JUNE 5, 2017

You know those times when something is right in front of you, yet you fail to realize it? You ask yourself why you didn’t think of that sooner. If you stop and think about contact center agent burnout and turnover problems, why have you not considered musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)? Of course, you did. It’s obvious, right? Ahem…it should be. Have you considered MSD as a contact center agent burnout cause?

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Agent burnout Contact Center Morale Call Center 192

Callminer

JUNE 6, 2017

When you don’t deliver what your customers’ want, the customer experience is less than desirable. CX Data Analysis is incredibly valuable.

Customer Experience 182

Customer Experience 182

Convoso

JUNE 7, 2017

Client : Bradley Lead Group is a lead generation group that focuses its efforts on qualifying extremely high quality leads in numerous financial sectors.

call center solutions 169

call center solutions Call Center 169

ShepHyken

JUNE 6, 2017

Bryan Eisenberg Tells Us The Secrets of Amazon’s Success. How can your business be more like Amazon? Shep Hyken interviews Bryan Eisenberg co-author of the book, Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do It. First Up: Shep Hyken’s opening comments focus on how any company can improve their customer service, by thinking about how they can become more convenient for their customers.

Customer centricity 224

Customer centricity Entertainment Customer Service Marketing 224

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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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CX Global Media

JUNE 6, 2017

It’s a $40 billion industry and the fourth fastest growing according to Common Sense Advisory. But the language industry is possibly the largest industry sector you have never heard of. Yet, as we know, language is crucial in providing a great customer experience. In our ever-growing global economy, omnichannel language support needs to be included in your contact center strategy.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2017

Our people are our most valuable asset.” “Butts in seats.” It is hard to imagine two more diametrically opposed phrases. Spend time in a contact center and you will likely hear one or the other, and it is not unusual to hear both (a thoroughly mind-blowing moment of bewilderment for the listener). In written form, […].

Contact Center 157

Contact Center Call Center Management 157

Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it. Average reply time, first response time, and the overall volume of conversations can give you useful insights into the productivity of your support but they each have flaws.

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Metrics Customer Experience Average Handle Time Surveys 96

ShepHyken

JUNE 5, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online 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. 11 Tips to Save Your Retail Business From Extinction by Anne Pilon. (Small Business Trends) Brian Solis gives an overview of the top trends that retail businesses can use to survive and thrive in today’s environment.

Airlines 185

Airlines Customer Service B2B B2C 185

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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Influitive

JUNE 9, 2017

Listen, if you’re an online community manager, or are responsible for the success of an online community, you might want to know this: According to Gartner, 70 percent of online communities are destined to fail. But wait. There’s more. Despite the billions of dollars being poured into online communities, almost 70 percent of customers never.

Management 98

Management Gamification B2B Customer advocacy 98

Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 6, 2017

Small and mid-sized companies can no longer be complacent in their customer service, leaving premium customer care services to the corporate giants that can afford it. Companies of every size, in every situation—from trying to grow to just trying to stay afloat—need to see great customer experiences not just as an ideal, but as a […].

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CustomerGauge

JUNE 8, 2017

Today’s Net Promoter® News will, as always, feature the inspiring stories of prosperous companies around the world, who have mastered the NPS methodology and enjoy positive business results. SAP achieves an NPS score of 19 for 2016, Securus Technologies completes fourth year of using NPS and many more stories… Enjoy today’s Net Promoter News roundup!

Technology 84

Technology 84

Win the Customer

JUNE 5, 2017

Giving employees the freedom to work from home can impact how much they love their job and their desire to stay. A survey by Leadership IQ found people are 87 percent more likely to love their job if they work from home or remotely. And aside from happiness with working at home, companies can recruit top talent regardless of where they live to gain an edge over their competition.

Customer Service 88

Customer Service virtual call center call center software Surveys 88

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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Andrew Mcfarland

JUNE 6, 2017

I once read that one of the most important jobs of a CEO was to hire the right customers. I liked the concept because we rarely think of “hiring” customers. Too often we just assume that a customer with money.

Best practices 81

Best practices 81

Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 8, 2017

By: John Cockerill. Regardless of the size of the Call Center(s), you have this in your arsenal. It can be a tool of massive value. Be careful how it gets used. Forecasts of Demand make you more knowledgeable and powerful than others in your organization. A decent forecast backed by data and agreed upon by all is a point around which you can make decisions with high degrees of certainty.

Call Center 74

Call Center Contact Center Service level Marketing 74

CustomerGauge

JUNE 6, 2017

As businesses in the telecommunications industry continue to battle for customer loyalty, one company sets itself on the right track to become the most customer centric data center provider. Colt Data Centre Services combines its 15-year experience of designing, building and managing data centres with its strong commitment to customer experience and loyalty.

Telecommunications 78

Telecommunications Customer centricity Customer Experience Management 78

Customer Service Life

JUNE 5, 2017

Class tales like Little Red Riding Hood can teach us a lot about telling better stories in our organizations. Photo Credit: PublicDomainPictures.net via CC License. I wrote this article with my colleague Ruth McCullen. She’s the Director of Client Analytics at FCR. This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on May 18, 2017. Click here to read the original.

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Average Handle Time Metrics Contact Center Analytics 68

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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Topdown

JUNE 9, 2017

Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Craig Le Clair ( @CSLeClair ) has a new report out: The Future of CCM: Communications-As-A-Service. In this report, Le Clair describes a future in which communications trends don’t favor traditional CCM solutions — the ones that are still serving a siloed, print-focused, operations-centric approach to customer communications.

Customer Experience 69

Customer Experience 69

Teresa Allen

JUNE 7, 2017

There has always been a debate on whether customer service scripting will make customer service representatives sound too mechanical and less spontaneous. A recent interaction with a credit card representative highlights exactly why scripting at least as a guide is necessary. My daughter was about to travel out of state and had lost her debit card. I had an extra card on my business card with her name on it since she sometimes does work for me.

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Scripts Customer Service Marketing 69

Momentum Telecom

JUNE 6, 2017

Configuring your call flow is an important part of utilizing the features that your phone service provides you. Utilizing your call flow effectively can be hugely beneficial by saving you both time and resources and by helping provide a positive customer experience. Let’s take a second to define call flow, so we’re on all on the same page.

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Call flow Scripts Customer Service Customer Experience 71

NICE inContact

JUNE 7, 2017

What brands come to mind when you think of good customer service? Immediately for me, it’s USAA, Amazon and Nordstrom. USAA is always available, offers multiple ways for me to contact them, is always pleasant and gets me to a resolution almost always on the first try. Amazon, again, provides me with multiple ways to contact them, and has a great self-service service site.

Customer Experience 67

Customer Experience Self service Customer Service Personalization 67

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ijgolding

JUNE 5, 2017

I have just returned from a wonderful four-day city break to Paris. Family time, glorious weather (in the main) and one of the world’s most beautiful cities, made for a quite fabulous combination. I have been to the French capital many times, but this trip topped them all. From our lovely boutique hotel; to the friendly people (we only encountered one particularly grumpy rail employee in four days); to having dinner in the Eiffel Tower; to seeing astonishing artwork from the likes of Leona

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Airlines Transportation Customer Experience Management 65

Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 8, 2017

Photo credit: Jeff Toister. Being outside is incredible. You can get great exercise. Clear your head. And you never know what sort of discoveries you might find, such as a random helipad on a hiking trail. If you love the outdoors, you probably love REI. It's an amazing company that sells all sorts of outdoor gear from camping and hiking equipment to bicycles, kayaks, and skis.

Advertising 63

Advertising Employee engagement Education Customer Service 63

Mindtouch

JUNE 7, 2017

Last summer, with our initial release of Touchpoints, MindTouch extended its reach across the entirety of a customer’s online experience. These simple, plug-and-play integrations provide a variety of intuitive ways to reveal help content on virtually any web property. Clients like Bona, Conga, and Cisco Meraki implemented Touchpoints to allow users to instantly discover the right documentation where needed, without disrupting their journey by navigating to other websites.

Marketing 63

Marketing Management Customer Experience Self service 63