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“Empathy in Action”? offers a modern playbook for delivering customer experience (CX)

Natalie Petouhof

My path to a CX career started in 2001 at Peppers & Rogers Group. That approach yielded unimaginable yet remarkable anecdotes such as reps sending flowers if a customer fell ill, chatting with customers about their families (average handle time wasn’t a metric) and sending free replacement products if orders were reported defective.

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Comparing and Purchasing Call Monitoring Software: 20 Experts Reveal the Biggest Mistakes Companies Make (and How to Avoid Them)

Callminer

His journey with Terminix began as a summer job in 1996, and ultimately became a full-time career in 2001. Over 60 percent of customer service managers rank customer satisfaction as the most important metric for measuring call center success, followed by first-call resolution, average handle time, and wait time.