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Putting Humanity in Contact Centers

Customer Relationship Metrics

This results in higher profits, lower costs, higher customer retention and referrals. Pierce, O’Driscoll, Coghlan, 2004). They were built when customer retention and referrals were not seen as top-of-mind issues and when cost containment drove decisions. That is more humane. And Empathy makes that happen.

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It's So Hard To Say Goodbye (But It Shouldn't Be)

Contact Center Geek

We all need compelling reasons to keep our customers coming back. Customer retention is vital and getting customer feedback can give great insight into the future success of our business, but we need to allow customers to leave us. In late 2004 I visited the AOL call center in Ogden, Utah.