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How to Recession-Proof Your Contact Center, According to 360+ Executives

Balto

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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Making Personalization the Center of Your Customer Retention Strategy like Spotify

SharpenCX

>> Read Next: What Metrics to Measure in your Contact Center to Save Customer Retention and Build Brand Loyalty. Spotify, originally founded in 2006 in Sweden, continues to see success. The music streaming platform Spotify masterfully retains customers. And, we’ve done a deep dive to see just how they do it. >>

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

Callminer

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. Scott Sachs is president of SJS Solutions , a consultancy that specializes in the development and deployment of contact center technology.

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The Quick Fix for Better CX

Customer Interactions

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

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

Contact Center Geek

As call center leaders we know that every metric can be abused, even if unintentionally, and therefore must have a counter metric to monitor. Call centers learned this many years ago when we created incentive plans based solely on Average Handle Time without a quality metric to counter it. Comcast is not the first.

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What the heck is a Chief Customer Officer?

Toister Performance Solutions

However, I’ve come across a number of CCOs who are also responsible for brand, marketing, sales, customer success, and/or the contact center. Bliss published Chief Customer Officer in 2006. Do clear metrics exist for measuring progress? Is the CCO role a fad or a real trend? This appears to be a real trend.

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Gamifying Customer Service to Cure Agent Attrition

Noble Systems

Agent attrition is an epidemic that contact center leaders have unsuccessfully tried to remedy for years. To solve outbreaks caused by contaminated food, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses three types of information: epidemiologic; traceback; food and environmental testing. left within 3-6 months.