Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 14, 2016

Online print and design company MOO launched in 2006 with a compelling vision: To disrupt the trillion-dollar global print industry by delivering cost-effective yet superior design and a world-class experience via the web. The company has much to celebrate, given its remarkable growth and achievements over the past decade. MOO has won multiple Webby awards […]. Inside View agent empowerment call center call center awards contact center culture live chat self-service

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since 2006, cloud computing has expanded and advanced in incredible ways. While cloud computing is a staple in numerous organizations, less than half of contact centers have any form of investment in cloud technology. But, we see the rate of cloud adoption in contact centers rising every year now. Is your contact center ready to make the leap to cloud computing? Here are a few considerations to make as you prepare for the transition.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2015

Hispanic market—in 2006. […]. How do you get your entire company to support and live your core values? By engaging staff and leaders in defining what your organization stands for. That was the approach taken by Listen Up Español Founders Craig Handley and Tony Ricciardi. The two launched the business—a bilingual call center for the U.S. Culture call centers community service contact centers core values corporate citizenship culture

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Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Black Friday is the only shopping holiday with its very own death count: 10 deaths, 105 injuries since 2006 with an honorable mention to the Texas pair who “beat, strangled and set on fire an assistant store manager to steal thousands of dollars of Black Friday sales” and the California father charged with the vehicular manslaughter of his two daughters, when, after only three hours of sleep in 24 hours, he crammed his four children into the back car seat designed for only three.

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Sales Personalization Management Customer Service 188

teleopti

OCTOBER 9, 2018

SICCAM fit perfectly with Teleopti’s plan to enter the Moroccan market with the goal to achieve a comparable success with the one in Middle East, where we since 2006 have managed to get around an 80% market share STOCKHOLM, May 23, 2012 — On May 17 and 18, Teleopti proudly took part in the SICCAM forum in Casablanca, focusing on Contact Centres and Customer Relations in Morocco.

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Bright Pattern

APRIL 4, 2019

Founded in 2006 by the major credit card processors, the PCI DSS addresses and helps alleviate vulnerabilities within the payment card ecosystem (i.e. When it comes to compliance in the card payment space, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the rule by which all card transactions must abide. POS, online and mobile shopping apps, wireless hotspots, etc.).

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Talkdesk

MAY 8, 2019

ParkWhiz , headquartered in Chicago, was founded in 2006 with the mission to free drivers from the hassles of everyday travel by making it faster and easier for users to find, reserve and pay for parking at thousands of locations. One of my favorite cities to go to is Santa Cruz, California. We were blessed to live in the Santa Cruz Mountains for a few years and fell in love with this city.

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Customer Interactions

JULY 7, 2015

In a 2006 Bain study, 80% of companies surveyed claimed they offered a “great” customer experience. Some contact centers claim to prioritize customer satisfaction, but all they’re accountable for are operational metrics. The result of lip service? That only sounded impressive until Bain went on to survey the customers of those companies. Only 8% of those customers claimed to have received “great” service.

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ShepHyken

JULY 28, 2017

That’s why we haven’t built a major enclosed mall since 2006.”. This week we feature an article by Ted Janusz who writes about how customers are always looking for a better customer experience. It’s important to stay up to date on new technology and trends in order to keep your customers and attract new ones. . Was this a typical Friday event for you and your family?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

Thorough analysis conducted by The Conference Board in 2006 showed that, among twelve leading engagement research companies, twenty-six key drivers of engagement could be identified, of which eight were common to all: – Trust and integrity – How well do managers communicate and ‘walk the talk‘? – Nature of the job – Is it mentally stimulating day-to-day? – Line of sight between employee performance and company performance – Do.

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Talkdesk

JULY 25, 2019

SMTP2GO, founded in 2006, is headquartered in New Zealand with customers in 130 countries. We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Charlotte James Lisbonne (Customer Success Manager) and Lukas Williams (Head of Tech Support/Business Development Manager) from SMTP2GO. Their mission is to provide the fastest, most reliable SMTP service on the market. In this blog find out why they chose Talkdesk and how they’ve benefited. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

In 2006, when it was sold to Bank of America, MBNA was an enterprise of 25,000 employees, the U.S.’ Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.”

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. ChurnZero the real-time Customer Success platform announced that it has joined HubSpot as a Connect Beta Integrator. Today, ChurnZero announced that it has joined HubSpot as a Connect Beta Integrator. HubSpot, a leading growth platform, works with Connect integrators to help grow their business through listing and marketing and distribution resources to increase shared customers.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Founded in 2006 by Paul Parkinson, who has amassed over three decades of industry expertise, Synergy Automotive provides B2B and B2C car leasing, contract hire and finance services. A 66 per cent increase in sales since 2012 has turbocharged success for vehicle leasing and contract hire broker Synergy Automotive. In the driving seat: Paul and Martina Parkinson with members of the Synergy Automotive team.

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Call Center Coach

JUNE 15, 2017

GetHuman started back on 2006 when, founder of several software companies, Paul English became enraged when he was locked in Verizon’s IVR jail. Last year, roughly 1 in 8 Americans used GetHuman. Now GetHuman tries to create a better customer journey and take care of customer service problems for people. Avoid IVR Jail and Release the Customer Journey Click to Tweet. I know that I would never want my customers to have to hire GetHuman to receive good service.

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Robert Davis

JULY 16, 2018

This was the highest October sales figure since 2006, even though the recession had hit people hard across the country. By Brad Baumunk, President and COO, Robert C. Davis and Associates. Recently I read an article by Toma Kulbyte entitled “32 Customer Experience Statistics You Need to Know for 2018” ( [link] ). In addition to all of the statistics she quotes, I particularly like her definition of CX: “Customer experience is your customers’ perception of how the company treats them.

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PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It comes from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis , and it compares your emotional, automatic mental processes to an elephant—lumbering, inflexible, and massive. In a past job, my superiors were excited about what they called the “elephant-and-rider metaphor.” And your rational mind? That’s a tiny human riding atop the elephant—well-intentioned, nimble, holding the reins and the illusion of control.

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Branch Mesenger

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This year, the holiday created by Alibaba back in 2006 made $30.8 Did you hit the mall or a physical retail store this past Friday? If you skipped the store for mobile deals, you're part of an ever-growing, ever-shifting audience of consumers who are increasingly taking their dollars online.

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Sykes

MARCH 7, 2018

Tish started as an agent in 2006 for SYKESHome (then Alpine Access). “At Tishara Vahling Marr loves helping others learn. But the thing she loves even more is learning something new herself. Recently promoted to manager of curriculum development, she is responsible for helping develop the materials used in training account teams for SYKESHome. Perhaps it’s her own love of learning that makes her excel at what she does. Each day I go to work excited to learn something new,” she says.

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Branch Mesenger

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This year, the holiday created by Alibaba back in 2006 made $30.8 Did you hit the mall or a physical retail store this past Friday? If you skipped the store for mobile deals, you're part of an ever-growing, ever-shifting audience of consumers who are increasingly taking their dollars online.

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Momentum Telecom

MAY 31, 2017

That’s why in 2006 five major credit card companies formed the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). For any businesses looking to successfully move into the future, hacking prevention and cyber security are quickly becoming top priorities. With the way the technological landscape has been changing, some sort of standards had to be put in place.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Where customer behavior changes are reported as a result of employee engagement, they were (like satisfaction’s impact on customer behavior) also at macro and rather weak tea, incidental levels: “An earlier (2006) Gallup report that examined over 23,000 business units showed that companies with engagement levels in the top quartile averaged 12% higher customer advocacy than those in the bottom quartile.” Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

February 2006. For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. At times (more in the “old days” but every now and then it happens in present times) we’ve literally have been accused of “having religion;” i.e., believing in Customer Experience (CX) without proof and asked to show the value of CX. So, the debate continues.

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Amity

MAY 5, 2016

— Adrian McEwen (@amcewen) November 22, 2006. — Tom Coates (@tomcoates) December 6, 2006. Working in Customer Success, we hear the same terms all the time: ARR, Churn, MRR, Retention, SaaS, etc. But have you ever found yourself wondering, “who tweeted it first?” ” Well, we did, and after conducting some very in-depth research, this post was born.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 10, 2018

Indeed, the financials seal the deal: “the public FoEs (firms of endearment) returned 1,026% for investors over the 10 years ending June 30, 2006, compared to 122% for the S&P 500; that’s more than a 8-to-1 ratio! What is Customer Centricity DNA? Lynn Hunsaker. What is customer-centricity DNA? Can you develop it, or must your business be “born” with it?

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Enghouse Interactive

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The analyst’s recent “The Inner Circle Guide to Omnichannel” report looked at the proportion of UK contact centre inbound interactions by channel since 2006, with predictions shown until the end of 2021. One of the headline findings was that the percentage of interactions made by telephone was anticipated to fall from 90 per cent in 2006 to a projected 62.2 Recent research from Contact Babel has uncovered that traditional telephony-based interactions are on the decline.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

Just on the basis of comparison to the S & P 500, the public companies singled out by Firms of Endearment returned 1,026 percent for investors over the 10 years ending June 30, 2006, compared to 122 percent for the S & P 500, more than an 8 to 1 ratio. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy.

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CallSource Insights

APRIL 23, 2020

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mission, Kansas, VinSolutions fosters dealership success by providing a fully customizable suite of solutions, including equity mining, market pricing and desking tools, combined with the continuous, personal support of a designated Performance Manager. VinSolutions & CallSource Announce a Deeper Integration and More Robust Partnership. WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA: 23 April 2020.

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Call Center Coach

JULY 8, 2019

Harris : Omar has been creating high-performance organizations since 2006. The first step in the contact center agent journey comes with the hiring process. During the past few decades in the industry I’ve come to rely on learning from some of the top industry experts to help guide my thinking and idea creation.

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Avaya

JANUARY 24, 2018

million for their inaccuracies between 2006 and 2008. Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. Her insight helps enterprises and solution providers develop strategies to meet the escalating demands of today’s consumer and business customers.

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Government Enterprise Banking Consulting 44

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Thorough analysis conducted by The Conference Board in 2006 showed that, among twelve leading engagement research companies, twenty-six key drivers of engagement could be identified, of which eight were common to all: • Trust and integrity – How well do managers communicate and ‘walk the talk‘? Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy.

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Employee engagement Metrics Consulting Consulting 162

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The term cloud computing dates back to 2006. Fast forward and there has been a phenomenal growth and evolution in this space. Every business understands the cloud imperative and their enterprise stack has very many flavors of cloud. Contact centers have traditionally been slow in cloud adoption, currently about 49% of contact centers have some form of cloud infrastructure. But, we do see the inflection point soon, where cloud will be overtaking premise.

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Contact Center SaaS Enterprise Cloud contact 56

ClearAction

JANUARY 10, 2018

Indeed, the financials seal the deal: “the public FoEs (firms of endearment) returned 1,026% for investors over the 10 years ending June 30, 2006, compared to 122% for the S&P 500; that’s more than a 8-to-1 ratio! What is Customer Centricity DNA? Lynn Hunsaker. What is customer-centricity DNA? Can you develop it, or must your business be “born” with it?

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Metrics 63

NewVoiceMedia

AUGUST 7, 2017

A leisurely company standard like “we strive to answer all emails within 48 hours,” which may have been fine in 2006, shows a misunderstanding of what satisfactory customer service calls for in 2016. “Customer service—now that’s a dying art.” I hear this sentiment often, and my response is, “Uh … I’m not so sure you’re right about that.” I’m just not convinced that customer service is in particularly bad shape compared to how it was in the gauzy, dimly-remembered past.

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Hero Digital

APRIL 8, 2020

By 2006, Taobao had a larger share of China’s online auction market than eBay, and the American company decided to pull out of the country completely. COVID-19 is resetting what people value. Will your business be ready for the new reality? A hard reset on what’s valuable. Like many of us, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty have forced me to more closely scrutinize “what are the things of value” in my daily life. In March my car lease was up.

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B2C Banking Healthcare B2B 57

Etech GS

JULY 16, 2019

Developed in 2006 by five major credit card companies to protect consumers from fraud, data breaches, and identity theft during business transactions, PCI DSS standards are enforced by the PCI Security Standards Council. Every good business leader knows there will always be times when risk-taking is beneficial to your organization. We have all heard the adage, “The Greater the Risk, The Greater the Reward”.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Mihai Corbuleac is a Senior IT Consultant at ComputerSupport.com LLC , an IT support company providing professional IT support and cloud services to businesses across the United States since 2006. Investing in the right call center monitoring software is imperative for today’s call centers. Without call center monitoring, quality assurance can suffer, customer satisfaction inevitably wanes, and compliance issues can arise.

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Best practices call center software CRM outsourcing 186

Stratifyd

MARCH 26, 2019

He grew up in Beijing and came to Charlotte in 2006 to attain his Ph.D. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. AI has touched millions of lives since Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant exploded onto the market with the singular goal of making interactions, and lives, easier. But AI has come a long way since 2011, moving toward functioning as infrastructure and fundamentally changing the landscape of the workplace. A Brief Synopsis of AI as Infrastructure.

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Airlines Government Marketing Personalization 63

Bill Quiseng

MAY 8, 2017

In 2006 and in 2009, John was awarded the Technology Executive of the Year, and the Titan of Technology awards by the CTA. This week’s post is from Swiftpage CEO John Oechsle. He examines the evolution of how organizations connect with their customers and how smaller and midsized businesses are finding ways to compete for customers with larger players in their space through the 4 C’s of customer information. Swiftpage is the owner of Act! ,

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

She joined Striata in 2006 as Head of Email Marketing. For much of their history, utilities haven’t had to pay too much attention to customer experience (CX). The focus in many areas, has tended to be on technologies that supported infrastructure and reduced operational costs. But today’s customer expects much more.

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