Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2015

You could have a great experience with a product or service, but if something unpleasant or disappointing happens at the end of that experience, that unpleasantness is the part that you remember. It can be the screech that ruins your Customer Experience. This rehearsal should be designed into your Customer experience.

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Like any other industry, there’s always room for improvement in call center customer experiences. Call centers must deliver the best customer experience from jump, or else risk dealing with an unsatisfied customer, and getting negative press. Here are 7 tips for call centers to improve customer experiences: 1.

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Call Center Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Interactive Voice Response 157

SharpenCX

JANUARY 27, 2021

Equip your agents with scripts for efficient and effective support. But don’t let these scripts replace any coaching methods or strategies you have in place (your agents aren’t robots!). These scripts are meant to be a reference–not a copy-paste response. These scripts are meant to be a reference–not a copy-paste response.

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Balto

JUNE 28, 2022

New report uncovers key script adherence insights, makes case for an anti-script approach for better call outcomes. Louis, MO — Balto’s Conversation Excellence Lab has released a new report challenging the role of call scripts in the contact center. 64% of agents identified something they would like to change in their scripts.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, call center scripting is used widely. To understand why that is the case, here’s the arguably five biggest benefits of using agent scripting in a contact center: Decrease agent training. Agent scripting will give new hires the guidance they need to start handling interactions confidently on their own earlier. .

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

How to Deliver an Amazing (Versus Unamazing) Customer Experience. How to Use Proactive Communication to Manage Increasing Customer Expectations. Shep Hyken interviews Laura Bassett, Vice President of Product Marketing at NICE , a complete platform for delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

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Interactions

MAY 6, 2022

In customer experience, wasting time is one of the biggest pain points for consumers. In a recent survey, we found the top obstacles people experience when contacting customer service have to do with time, such as long wait times or wasted time due to inefficient processes. . 63% were transferred multiple times.

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Nicereply

APRIL 5, 2023

In this article, we will explore how AI is revolutionizing these crucial aspects of business, delving into the innovative tools and technologies that are empowering companies to better understand, anticipate, and cater to their customer’s unique needs and preferences. How is AI Redefining Customer Engagement & Customer Experience?

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Empower customer experience and win loyal customers. The customer experience (CX) is arguably one of the most vital functions of your business. The overall customer experience you create is subjective. Do want to create a consistently excellent customer experience? Software Tools.

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Return Customer

MARCH 28, 2018

Multivariate testing is a fantastic technique to measure customer experience and satisfaction metrics. The Net Promoter Score ( NPS ) is one of the best ways to evaluate customer satisfaction. It is a good idea to segregate the NPS scores derived from customers at various stages of the buyer journey and track them separately.

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3CLogic

JUNE 23, 2023

Customer Experience in the Age of AI AI suddenly seems unavoidable — sweeping into every sector of our lives from, ostensibly, out of nowhere. One of the most exciting frontiers in AI is in the realm of voice technology — especially for customer experience and service management.

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Tethr

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In my last post I wrote about some of the fascinating work going on at our company, Tethr, to define and expand on the concepts from our original research in The Effortless Experience. Unlike most companies who try to tighten their control of the frontline (through scripting, “screen pops,” etc.),

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Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ultimately, disgruntled employees can even have a negative impact on the customer experience , as unhappy employees are less likely to go the extra mile to ensure that your customers are satisfied. Meet Our Panel of Customer Service & Customer Experience Managers: Anh Trinh. Take responsibility.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

This week we feature an article by Mike Schoultz who shares his top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer. Customer service designs that are remarkable get talked about. Customer service designs that are remarkable get talked about.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As he pulled up to my destination, Rodrigo asked only one thing of me: “If you wouldn’t mind filling out the customer satisfaction survey and rating my service today, I would really appreciate it,” he said. What is a Customer Satisfaction Survey? Why Does the Customer Satisfaction Survey Matter?

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Like any other industry, there’s always room for improvement in call center customer experiences. Call centers must deliver the best customer experience from jump, or else risk dealing with an unsatisfied customer, and getting negative press. Here are 7 tips for call centers to improve customer experiences: 1.

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Talkdesk

MAY 28, 2019

Improving the Call Center Outsourcing Customer Experience Looking back a decade or so ago, I was a customer service manager at a small SaaS (software as a service) company feeling my way through the contact center. No company that actually cares about their customers would want to put them through such an experience.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 20, 2019

I’m sure many folks have had the pleasure of calling customer service only to be connected with someone who didn’t speak fluent, understandable English, didn’t understand the cultural application for the product they were supporting and sounded like they were reading directly from a script or a basic product manual. Here’s How.

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Global Response

MAY 15, 2023

A solid QA process allows you to drive continuous improvement and deliver consistent quality at every customer checkpoint. At Global Response, if there’s one thing we know, it’s that excellent customer experience is never an accident—instead, it can be strategically accomplished through quality control processes.

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Fonolo

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Improve the Customer Journey. When it comes to customer experience, you first need to understand the customer journey with your call center. How to Use Customer Profiles to Improve Call Center Training. Another way you can shape your ideal customer journey is to collect feedback directly from your customers.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Customer experience is more important than ever. As already-high customer expectations continue to evolve, businesses need to pivot rapidly to meet them. That means contact center leaders need to get smart about how they deliver better customer experiences – and it begins with looking inward. About Qualtrics.

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Interaction Metrics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Customer feedback is the insights, complaints, and input your customers share about your products, services, and the overall experiences you provide. It comes in a variety of forms: Survey answers to rating questions (e.g., Net Promoter Score) Survey answers to open-ended questions (e.g., “How How can we improve?”)

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TeleDirect

MAY 6, 2024

An outbound call center focuses solely on outgoing customer communication. This typically includes outreach, fundraising/promotional calls, reminders/appointment confirmations, lead follow-ups, feedback surveys, and callbacks. Surveys & feedback Curious about customer experience?

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OctopusTech

APRIL 18, 2024

The right customer experience contact center strategy solves the immediate problem and creates lasting relationships and connections. To a great extent, this is important, especially in call centers, where every call interaction can either break or boost a company’s reputation and customer retention rate.

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Satrix Solutions

JANUARY 29, 2021

I think we would all agree – customer surveys are everywhere. Despite such prolific use of surveys as a central component of customer experience programs, many B2B companies are failing to maximize their return on investment. I often call this where the rubber meets the road in customer experience programs.

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Balto

JUNE 3, 2022

more likely to feel extremely empowered to solve customer issues. Customer experience and attrition are focal points for many contact centers and engagement is a proven factor in improving both, so leaders can’t afford to shrug their shoulders when it comes to engaging remote employees. Take Engagement Surveys Seriously.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Three Important Considerations for Customer Service Surveys by Paul Selby. CustomerThink) A lot has been written on performing customer service or customer satisfaction surveys.

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Interactions

APRIL 26, 2024

In fact, according to Interactions research , nearly half of consumers say that speaking with customer service is frustrating (47%) and said they’ve become angry while speaking to customer service in the past 12 months (48%). 3: Every interaction treats customers like a unique person, not a number.

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LiveChat

MAY 12, 2017

Same as the process in your company, as well as the scripts in customer service , they both should be no more than just guidelines which you follow and react the moment something is not working correctly. People don’t like when things get too hot, and that includes your customers in particular. Think about it.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 15, 2018

Chatbots that are designed to follow a specific scripted flow, supported by appropriate interfaces can work wonders for your business. For customer support, this translates to bots that present customers with a list of possible options and which can take specific actions in response to those options.

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Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

No customer wants to feel ‘processed,’ and how reps respond to someone that is angry or upset is crucial. In this situation, the last thing any customer wants to encounter is a robot-like agent taking their cues from a script. Give customers choice Customers don’t think in terms of channels.

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Callminer

APRIL 21, 2020

Good scripting can lessen the amount of decision making, but another way to counteract. Healy Jones has run marketing and calling teams for a variety of venture capital funded startups and is an expert at matching online customer experiences with the sales funnel. Attached is the new script and you’ll be trained on Monday.

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Eptica

JANUARY 19, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017 Capturing emotion for a better APAC customer experience. Author: Vincent Giraud The original aim of customer service was relatively transactional – a consumer made a query, an answer was provided by the company, the customer was satisfied and the interaction was completed.

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TechSee

JANUARY 7, 2020

Customer feedback. Customers have clear expectations about the products and services they are paying for, and telcos must always know whether they are successfully meeting them. Some survey their customers at various points along the journey, learning about any hiccups before they become full-blown crises that can affect retention.

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Talkdesk

MAY 28, 2019

I’m sure many folks have had the pleasure of calling customer service only to be connected with someone who didn’t speak fluent, understandable English, didn’t understand the cultural application for the product they were supporting and sounded like they were reading directly from a script or a basic product manual.

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SoliCall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Establish quality assurance programs to monitor and evaluate the quality of agent-customer interactions. Implement call monitoring , customer satisfaction surveys, and mystery shopping techniques to assess agent performance objectively. 4- Quality Assurance Programs. 5 – Technology and Tools.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Every year organizations invest millions to deliver a high-quality customer experience (CX) during their seasonal periods. Bottom line, take a look at your IVR flow, and how it is driving calls into different queues to optimize the user experience. In a survey conducted by Wakefield Research, 63% of U.S. Cloud-based APIs.

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