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How to Manage Customer Wait Time: The Best Tips From Great Companies

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth.

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What is Expected Wait Time? (EWT)

Babelforce

Expected Wait Time (EWT) is the length of time a customer has to wait in the queue before an agent answers. There is a systematic approach to calculating EWT which should factor in things like staffing, handling time and the wait time of recent calls. EWT is always a best guess.

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Zero Cost! How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. Using our fictional restaurant as an example, here are 11 practical, Zero-Cost tips. Another example is Netflix.

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Guest Post: Maximize Productivity with a Customer Experience Management Platform

ShepHyken

She writes about how contact center agents can maximize productivity and provide a better customer experience. Research shows that 86% of agents feel they don’t have the resources or the authority to deal with customers effectively, which hurts productivity and service quality. Eases access to customer information .

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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Guest Post: Could Customer Experience Gaps be Limiting Your Profitability?

ShepHyken

It discusses customer experience gaps that hinder profitability and how to close them. Are you providing as good of a customer experience as you think you are? Customer churn and loss of repeat business 59% of customers will reduce or completely terminate their spending after a poor interaction.

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Customer Wait Times Don’t Matter

BetterXperience

Ask any customer facing professional what they are most worried about and customer wait time will be top of mind. While overly long wait times can be a driver of dissatisfaction, truth is customers don’t mind “just enough” wait time, in fact almost anything beyond that has no return on investment.