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Top 5 Posts in March

Contact Center Pipeline

As we close out the first quarter of 2023, our readers are focused on the future. Tiffany guides us on how to up our workforce management game. Tim shares valuable lessons learned from the pandemic and how best to move forward in the new normal.

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QA and Coaching for Experienced Agents

Contact Center Pipeline

If you have ever attempted to coach a contact center agent with 10-plus years of experience, then you already know that it is a very different scenario than coaching someone with two to three years of experience.

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What to Write When Saying “No”

Contact Center Pipeline

While it’s never easy or much fun to tell a customer “no,” you can write it the wrong way—causing write-backs, harming satisfaction, destroying rapport—or the better way. The better way doesn’t mean saying “yes” or making exceptions for super-persistent customers. The better way to write “no” to a customer is candidly, firmly, briefly, and empathetically.

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Is It the End of the Cold Call?

Contact Center Pipeline

We’ve all been there. The landline rings unexpectedly or an Unknown Number flashes on your screen and — before you know it — you’re listening to somebody’s sales pitch for a product you don’t need.

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Upleveling Contact Center QM to the Analytics Age

Contact Center Pipeline

Exceptional customer experiences (CXs) are critical to short- and long-term business success. Because of this, it’s instrumental to have a detailed understanding of what occurs during each customer interaction and along the customer journey. In fact, these insights have shifted from nice-to-have to need-to-have.

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Safely Continuing Customer Contact

Contact Center Pipeline

Customers require, and demand, excellent service, support, and sales assistance. But when disasters threaten and strike, they may not be able to receive them by contact centers in a timely manner, or not at all. Hence the need for a sound business continuity strategy.

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Do We Know Clouds (Contact Centers)?

Contact Center Pipeline

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It’s cloud’s illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all” —Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now) The hosted cloud, with solutions and also data on third-party networked servers, has arguably dominated the contact center technology conversation for the past […]