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In 1978, the band REO Speedwagon released its seventh studio album. Called You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish, it was REO’s first album to crack the Top 40, reaching number 29 and selling over 2 million copies in the U.S. The first song on the first side of the album is […]. MORE
Contact centers are complex and unique businesses. Some are five agents strong while others employ thousands. And while each contact center has its own business strategy and objectives, one common goal spans the industry: keeping customers happy. MORE
In 1977, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet released his seventh studio album, entitled Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The album, which featured a song by the same name, was well-received among critics in addition to being transitional for Buffet’s career in many ways. MORE
Chances are you have pivoted toward remote agents, and maybe not by choice: Most organizations were forced into work-from-home situations. You scrambled and had little choice. MORE
As contact center leaders plan for the post-pandemic recovery—both short- and long-term—where can they turn for reliable insights for informed decision-making? MORE
COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, has changed everything. Consumers are still very wary of exposure to the virus and want to get more things done digitally. MORE
We are now into the final quarter of a year that will surely be remembered as one of the most chaotic in history. Many of us would like nothing better than to simply fast forward to 2021 or beyond. But how to get there? MORE
We’re wrapping up Customer Service Week 2020 with themes, activities and comments from Fara Haron of Majorel, Mark Pereira of Briljent, and Centrical’s Gal Rimon. Be sure to read parts one and two in this series for more great insights from industry leaders, or access our October issue for the full article. FARA HARON CEO […]. MORE
As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered vision of the future of work from just a few months ago. MORE
My blog series co-author, Paul Stockford, and I both lobbied to lead this one off. Paul, thanks for letting me set the stage—plus I know you’ll bring our main points home with well-researched facts and data! You may not recognize the name Karla Bonoff at first, but you surely know her music. MORE
There’s a lot of talk about the values-based consumer today—the preference for brands that do business in ethically positive ways or take a stand on moral issues. Winning over these consumers takes more than launching a Save-the-Whales drive or sending a team to the annual charity 5k. MORE
I think Greek philosopher Plato said it correctly: Necessity is the mother of invention. Just a few months ago, many contact centers had not fully embraced work-from-home, work-from-anywhere policies. MORE
When you think of working from home, several benefits come to mind. The savings in both time and money to commute back and forth to work. And, if you usually eat out for lunch, you can save money by eating home-cooked meals. MORE
The Covid-19 pandemic created significant shifts in how we work. As businesses scrambled to set up employees to work from home, there was little time to be proactive and consider future implications. MORE
Selling a product or service over the phone isn’t easy—ask anyone who’s ever done it for a living. But businesses of all types and sizes rely on outbound calling to generate sales and drive revenue. MORE
More than six months ago, the world changed for everyone. In most places, people were sent home to work remotely. The contact center industry was expected to get their teams home while continuing to serve millions of customers. MORE
The idiom “balancing act” is defined by dictionary.com as “a circus act in which a performer displays his or her balancing ability.” From where I sit, this definition suits many a contact center. MORE
Contact Center Pipeline’s SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name: Verint CEO: Dan Bodner, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board When Founded: 1994. We just celebrated our 25th year. MORE
COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives in so many ways. As we all learn to navigate our way through this global crisis, there are increasing demands on our contact center agents as well as the leaders who support them. MORE
In times of crisis, we often find heroes in the unlikeliest of places. The current COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic is no exception. MORE
Why should you go out of your way to show your appreciation to employees beyond Customer Service Week? MORE
Contact Center Pipeline’s AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Dick Bucci is Principal of Pelorus Associates, a market research and marketing communications company that assists developers of contact center solutions by providing in-depth market research and by authoring white papers, e-books and blog posts. MORE
Employees everywhere are struggling with severe increases in stress and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. MORE
The round-up of most-read blog posts in September offer telling clues about what’s top-of-mind for contact center leaders these days. At the No. MORE
Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). MORE
Knowledge management (KM) has become an important part of a contact center’s tech stack. In fact, according to Contact Center Pipeline’s 2020 contact center trends survey, of the top 20 challenges, “lack of, or bad desktop tools” (KM being one) ranked second. MORE
This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections. Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped up to help companies and brands maintain a positive, reassuring presence for their customers. MORE
For contact center businesses, unexpected changes such as unplanned downtime, massive call volume increases, facility closures or other issues can wreak havoc on a team’s ability to service the customer. MORE
In our second post on Customer Service Week 2020, Sitel Group’s Olivier Camino and Sweetwater’s Jeff Ostermann provide insights into their companies’ employee experience cultures and highlight CSW activities to engage and support their teams. MORE
I love Customer Service Week. Our frontline staff represent our organizations and they make such a difference in our customer’s experience. MORE
In earlier writings, I’ve offered up guidelines for purchasing cloud technology that focus on pricing, service level agreements, and the statement of work. But what if you don’t know if you are ready to go to the cloud? Or what if you want to leverage what you’ve already got? MORE
In the mad scramble to move more than 90% of our nation’s contact center agents to work at home, the focus was on technology—keeping our agents online, connected and maintaining service continuity. MORE
Sometimes social media feels like the mean kids’ table in the lunchroom at middle school. Everybody’s talking dirt about someone else. And once the gossip is out there, it’s hard to get your reputation back! Wretched customer service! Stylist was running 30 minutes late. MORE
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 11, 2020
Sometimes social media feels like the mean kids’ table in the lunchroom at middle school. Everybody’s talking dirt about someone else. And once the gossip is out there, it’s hard to get your reputation back! Wretched customer service! Stylist was running 30 minutes late.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Why should you go out of your way to show your appreciation to employees beyond Customer Service Week?
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Contact Center Pipeline’s AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Dick Bucci is Principal of Pelorus Associates, a market research and marketing communications company that assists developers of contact center solutions by providing in-depth market research and by authoring white papers, e-books and blog posts.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 20, 2020
As contact center leaders plan for the post-pandemic recovery—both short- and long-term—where can they turn for reliable insights for informed decision-making?
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Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Contact centers are complex and unique businesses. Some are five agents strong while others employ thousands. And while each contact center has its own business strategy and objectives, one common goal spans the industry: keeping customers happy.
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 21, 2020
My blog series co-author, Paul Stockford, and I both lobbied to lead this one off. Paul, thanks for letting me set the stage—plus I know you’ll bring our main points home with well-researched facts and data! You may not recognize the name Karla Bonoff at first, but you surely know her music.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 15, 2020
We are now into the final quarter of a year that will surely be remembered as one of the most chaotic in history. Many of us would like nothing better than to simply fast forward to 2021 or beyond. But how to get there?
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 7, 2020
In our second post on Customer Service Week 2020, Sitel Group’s Olivier Camino and Sweetwater’s Jeff Ostermann provide insights into their companies’ employee experience cultures and highlight CSW activities to engage and support their teams.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 5, 2020
This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections. Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped up to help companies and brands maintain a positive, reassuring presence for their customers.
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Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
In 1977, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet released his seventh studio album, entitled Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The album, which featured a song by the same name, was well-received among critics in addition to being transitional for Buffet’s career in many ways.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
The round-up of most-read blog posts in September offer telling clues about what’s top-of-mind for contact center leaders these days. At the No.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Employees everywhere are struggling with severe increases in stress and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 14, 2020
In earlier writings, I’ve offered up guidelines for purchasing cloud technology that focus on pricing, service level agreements, and the statement of work. But what if you don’t know if you are ready to go to the cloud? Or what if you want to leverage what you’ve already got?
Speaker: Esther Kieft, Delivery Manager (Group Technology) at Domino's Pizza Enterprises
It is well known that empathy is a key ingredient in creating lovable products, yet not all products offer the best customer experience. From meeting stringent deadlines to insufficient resources being available to carry out customer research, there is a range of reasons why customer empathy could be missing in product development. Join Esther Kieft, as she breaks down using empathy at a distance to evaluate the problems that customers are experiencing during this global health crisis.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
I think Greek philosopher Plato said it correctly: Necessity is the mother of invention. Just a few months ago, many contact centers had not fully embraced work-from-home, work-from-anywhere policies.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Knowledge management (KM) has become an important part of a contact center’s tech stack. In fact, according to Contact Center Pipeline’s 2020 contact center trends survey, of the top 20 challenges, “lack of, or bad desktop tools” (KM being one) ranked second.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 18, 2020
COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives in so many ways. As we all learn to navigate our way through this global crisis, there are increasing demands on our contact center agents as well as the leaders who support them.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
In 1978, the band REO Speedwagon released its seventh studio album. Called You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish, it was REO’s first album to crack the Top 40, reaching number 29 and selling over 2 million copies in the U.S. The first song on the first side of the album is […].
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 6, 2020
COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, has changed everything. Consumers are still very wary of exposure to the virus and want to get more things done digitally.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 12, 2020
In times of crisis, we often find heroes in the unlikeliest of places. The current COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic is no exception.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
For contact center businesses, unexpected changes such as unplanned downtime, massive call volume increases, facility closures or other issues can wreak havoc on a team’s ability to service the customer.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The idiom “balancing act” is defined by dictionary.com as “a circus act in which a performer displays his or her balancing ability.” From where I sit, this definition suits many a contact center.
Speaker: Rachel Happe
An online community is an increasingly vital part of many leading companies’ support strategies. Creating a branded place where your customers can ask and answer questions, interact with each other, and search for the information they need is a great way to decrease the burden on your staff and allow them to focus on the customers that really need their help. Join us at 9:00 am EST on Nov 18th for this talk by Rachel Happe, founder of industry-leading strategists The Community Roundtable, you will learn the effectiveness of community in empowering your customers, and generating value for your business.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Chances are you have pivoted toward remote agents, and maybe not by choice: Most organizations were forced into work-from-home situations. You scrambled and had little choice.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 9, 2020
We’re wrapping up Customer Service Week 2020 with themes, activities and comments from Fara Haron of Majorel, Mark Pereira of Briljent, and Centrical’s Gal Rimon. Be sure to read parts one and two in this series for more great insights from industry leaders, or access our October issue for the full article. FARA HARON CEO […].
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 20, 2020
There’s a lot of talk about the values-based consumer today—the preference for brands that do business in ethically positive ways or take a stand on moral issues. Winning over these consumers takes more than launching a Save-the-Whales drive or sending a team to the annual charity 5k.
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A great customer experience drives customer loyalty. Learn how to keep your customers happy this holiday season by helping them through their channel of choice with seasonal support experts.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
In the mad scramble to move more than 90% of our nation’s contact center agents to work at home, the focus was on technology—keeping our agents online, connected and maintaining service continuity.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner).
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 2, 2020
I love Customer Service Week. Our frontline staff represent our organizations and they make such a difference in our customer’s experience.
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 22, 2020
As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered vision of the future of work from just a few months ago.
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In this eBook, we’ll arm you with the research you need to inform areas of investment, and 8 quick tips you can use to improve your contact center’s performance now!
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 13, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic created significant shifts in how we work. As businesses scrambled to set up employees to work from home, there was little time to be proactive and consider future implications.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 26, 2020
Selling a product or service over the phone isn’t easy—ask anyone who’s ever done it for a living. But businesses of all types and sizes rely on outbound calling to generate sales and drive revenue.
Contact Center Pipeline
AUGUST 25, 2020
When you think of working from home, several benefits come to mind. The savings in both time and money to commute back and forth to work. And, if you usually eat out for lunch, you can save money by eating home-cooked meals.
Contact Center Pipeline
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Contact Center Pipeline’s SPONSOR WALL OF FAME Company name: Verint CEO: Dan Bodner, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board When Founded: 1994. We just celebrated our 25th year.
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