Contact Center Pipeline
APRIL 25, 2018
Without ever seeing our logo, you can tell you’re visiting a TELUS International site by the beautiful mosaic of colorful handprints that adorn our walls. More than simply a quirky decor element, each handprint represents a team member who participated in a TELUS Days of Giving activity. These annual volunteer days where hundreds, and sometimes […].
ShepHyken
APRIL 25, 2018
There are many great customer service stories that can serve as a template for how to handle a problem. I always fall back on my five-step service recovery process to handle all complaints and problems. For those that haven’t been following, the five-steps are: 1) Acknowledge the problem and thank the customer for bringing it to your attention. 2) Apologize for the problem. 3) Fix it or discuss the resolution. 4) Have an attitude of ownership. 5) Act with urgency.
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Peter Lavers
APRIL 25, 2018
The Net Promoter System / Score (NPS) has generated much debate over the years regarding its efficacy as the ‘only question’ that needs to be asked in Voice of Customer (VoC) research. Our friends at Lumoa asked 30 CX experts if they would recommend NPS to their clients, and the resulting report is fascinating. WCL Customer Management founder Peter Lavers was one of these contributors, who were asked the same two questions : 1.
Return Customer
APRIL 25, 2018
Companies are always looking for new ways to streamline their customer support department efforts. This doesn’t strike us as a surprise. Markets worldwide are becoming more volatile and saturated as we speak, and providing excellent customer support is important for business success. In order to keep customers returning and keep that competitive edge, businesses have to use the latest software to deliver profound care.
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Amity
APRIL 25, 2018
While being in early stages of the product-market journey are extremely exciting; measuring and understanding where things are working can also be just as nerve-wracking. You need to be able to detect where you’re succeeding right from the very start and where they need to change. It’s good to be in a beta because you can design the overall experience from the very beginning to push activation.
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Taylor Reach Group
APRIL 25, 2018
At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. Whether you’re interested in speaking, exhibiting or simply attending these events, we wanted to keep everybody informed on the upcoming Contact Center and CX Events. With that, here are some of the events taking place in May 2018 (in chronological order) with direct links to each event: CX 18 - May 1-4, Nashville, TN.
Teresa Allen
APRIL 25, 2018
Recently I had to call the contact center of FootJoy regarding an order I had placed on their website for golf shoes. With a size 11 woman’s shoe, it is almost impossible to find golf shoes in local retail outlets. In the FootJoy order process, the size menu defaults to a size 5.5 and you change it to see if your size is available. I was excited to be able to find a pair I liked and ordered the size 11.
Fonolo
APRIL 25, 2018
They say you can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. And, like anything in life, work is made so much better when you have a great friend with you. In fact, it turns out that having a friend at work isn’t just great for your personal and psychological well-being, it’s actually great for business as well. Whether a department or company is looking to maintain high morale and employee retention, or looking for creative ideas to increase customer satisfaction, a corporate culture
CSM Magazine
APRIL 25, 2018
You may be striving to keep up with the competition, but are keeping up with the increasing expectations of your customers? I’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news is that you no longer have to keep up with your competition; the bad news is that now you have to keep up with your customer – meaning your customer’s expectation of the service that makes you competitive.
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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper
Teresa Allen
APRIL 25, 2018
Recently I had to call the contact center of FootJoy regarding an order I had placed on their website for golf shoes. With a size 11 woman’s shoe, it is almost impossible to find golf shoes in local retail outlets. In the FootJoy order process, the size menu defaults to a size 5.5 and you change it to see if your size is available. I was excited to be able to find a pair I liked and ordered the size 11.
CX Journey
APRIL 25, 2018
Image courtesy of Pixabay Today's post was originally written for Brand Quarterly. It appeared in their November 28, 2017, issue. It has been slightly modified. Customers are yearning for better experiences. But what are you doing to design a better experience? How do you know what your customers’ expectations are? What are they trying to achieve? And how well is that going for them?
Kayako
APRIL 25, 2018
Have you ever decided to step up from capturing photos on your smartphone to a dedicated DSLR camera? I bet the model you want comes with all the features you need, but also a bunch more that you don’t understand. For small teams, live chat is a similar proposition. Is the investment of time and effort going to work in our favor? Won’t customers be too demanding?
Eptica
APRIL 25, 2018
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4 ways to transform your CX maturity levels. Published on: April 25, 2018. Author: Olivier Njamfa Brands understand that consumer expectations are continually rising. They know that they must keep innovating and improving if they are to differentiate their customer experience and therefore thrive. However, knowing what they need to do, and actually achieving it, are clearly very different things, as the latest Temkin Group State of CX Management 2018 report shows.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Teresa Allen
APRIL 25, 2018
Recently I had to call the contact center of FootJoy regarding an order I had placed on their website for golf shoes. With a size 11 woman’s shoe, it is almost impossible to find golf shoes in local retail outlets. In the FootJoy order process, the size menu defaults to a size 5.5 and you change it to see if your size is available. I was excited to be able to find a pair I liked and ordered the size 11.
Bright Pattern
APRIL 25, 2018
What can be done when your cloud provider fails? When customers ask us, we recommend that they consider a multi-cloud contact center architecture for enterprise deployments. The reason is simple—no provider can be exempt from failure, not even cloud leaders Amazon and Microsoft , which have both experienced costly disruptions.
ClientSuccess
APRIL 25, 2018
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches , welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.
Call Center Weekly
APRIL 25, 2018
What do you think is overlooked by contact center leadership, that hinders their customer retention efforts? Customer retention is a relationship rather than an event! Too much emphasis is placed on "saving" customers. That is like waiting until the end of a romantic relationship to tell someone you love them. By then it is too late. Minor frustrations, unfilled needs and finally a "trigger" event cause a breakup.
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
Ameyo
APRIL 25, 2018
Although many businesses have hopped the omnichannel bandwagon in recent years, phone is still the most preferred channel of communication. A study conducted by North Ridge Group found that 56% of the respondents still prefer phone to reach out to the customer service desks because it's effortless and easy.
CSM Magazine
APRIL 25, 2018
Starting with a lean Key Performance Indicator (KPI) methodology is the simple and practical way for the beginner, the busy, and the budget-constrained to measure what matters for business performance. Ultimately, I will always advocate that a robust performance measurement methodology is critical for every organisation to master. If we can’t know how well what matters is working, we can’t really manage anything well.
Dialer 360
APRIL 25, 2018
Call centers are perhaps the world’s hardest workplace, and call center management problems are most common as compare to other businesses. There may be a couple of operators and call center managers that may term a horrendous experience of either working or manage a contact center. Dealing with puzzled clients, strict work routines, penny-squeezing administration and customers super high expectations don’t make it simpler for them.
customer sure
APRIL 25, 2018
At CustomerSure, we spend every hour of every day talking to people about customer feedback. Sometimes, people tell us: Customer surveys don’t work! People hate receiving them! They have a point. On Planet Earth, in 2018, a lot of well-intentioned customer surveys are being sent. But good intentions don’t always translate to great results. If it’s your first time doing anything, you’re likely to make ‘rookie errors’ – and surveys are no different.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
Comm100
APRIL 25, 2018
Much has been studied, discussed and debated about keeping customers satisfied and loyal to your brand. In the past, people believed that providing a unique customer service experience was the key to customer loyalty. However, customers rarely frequent your business for exceptional customer experience. While a few types of customer service scenarios can be driven by exceptional service (such as a traveler patronizing a specific hotel based on the personalized care he received on his last visit),
ClientSuccess
APRIL 25, 2018
There seems to be rigorous debate in the SaaS customer success space about the value of measuring customer satisfaction through various survey methodologies, whether CSAT, NPS or CES (customer effort score). While each of these methodologies have their merits, I believe there’s a better question to ask, maybe the ultimate question every SaaS (or subscription) company should use to best measure customer sentiment.
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