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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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Upleveling Contact Center QM to the Analytics Age

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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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Setting Up Your Reps for Success

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The retail industry has always been marked by its unpredictable sales peaks and valleys—and that can make managing retail customer service a significant challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent repercussions (like supply chain disruptions and staffing shortages) have made it even more difficult to plan for and predict spikes in customer service.

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Do We Know Clouds (Contact Centers)?

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“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 […]

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You Don’t Need To Be On-Premise For Strong Corporate Culture

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One of the big myths about working remotely versus working remotely/on-premise, like in the contact center, is on corporate/company culture. That if you aren’t on-site and having someone physically looking over your shoulder that somehow you can’t be infused with your employers’ values. This on-premise argument has long been a head-shaker.

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No Excuses for Poor Disaster CX

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Disasters, like the recent holiday storms, are inevitable. How you plan, respond, but most critically inform and communicate with your employees and customers is what counts. This isn’t rocket science. And it is the foundation of the customer experience (CX). Customers and staff get it—both foreseen and unforeseen “events”. I’ve covered, been responsible for the […].

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What Do You Want to Take With You in 2023?

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With the New Year upon us, the question I invite you to ask yourself is: What do I want to take with me in 2023? Visualize a suitcase – not a rollerboard that we could use as carry-on – but an old time suitcase (something similar to the old world map one pictured here). In […].

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