article thumbnail

Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations. If the majority of handle time for a particular issue is spent on “qualification” rather than “resolution” or “connection,” the issue is likely a simple transaction that does not benefit from a live agent conversation.

article thumbnail

Customer Self-Service Doesn’t Matter! That’s a False Paradigm!!!

Natalie Petouhof

Look at critical metrics like First Contact Resolution (FCR), Average Handle Time (AHT), reduction in call volume, increases in the opportunity to generate revenue, improved marketing, greater self- service employee engagement, increased digital customer engagement on any device, anywhere, anytime.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Going From Good Customer Service to Great Customer Service

Global Response

LET’S CONNECT In an interview with Forbes, Herve Humler, President of the Ritz-Carlton, said, “I believe in the power of recognition and empowerment leading to great employee engagement. And employee engagement is critical to guest engagement.

article thumbnail

Top Priorities in Customer-Centric Contact Centers

RapportBoost

RapportBoost uses artificial Intelligence to optimize chat conversations in order to drive dramatic and sustained improvements in conversion rate, order size, customer satisfaction, renewal rate, average handle time, first contact resolution rate, agent retention and happiness, and other critical contact center metrics.

article thumbnail

Three Simple Ways to Show Your Customers Some Love

Verint

This week as we celebrate Valentine’s Day, it’s a good time to remember the role that emotion plays in customer service. Have you thought about that before? If you haven’t, consider how your positive feelings about a brand partly arise from the good feelings you had about a customer service experience—or several of them.