ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Murph Krajewski Shares Keys to Creating Better Customer Support Experiences. Do your customer facing employees have everything they need to do their jobs properly? Shep Hyken interviews Murph Krajewski, VP at Sharpen, a cloud based service company that strives to create better agent experiences in support centers by merging technologies and relationships.
Convoso
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
As technology advances, we all have that utopian dream of having all our problems answered at a click of a button. No matter the difficulty. No matter the medium.instant solutions and quality experiences. Many believe that for customer service, Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is the future of customer service and maybe the disruption of the entire call center industry.
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Vonage
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Social media has changed the rules of customer service. There was a time when if a customer wanted to complain, they’d have to dial the customer service number and then wait in a queue for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. If they were a bit irritated when they picked up the phone, they were likely to be fuming by the time they got through to an agent. This was partly due to the long wait, but also due to the fact that this set-up led to customers not feeling in control or valued in any way.
The Center for Client Retention
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Being on the phone all day and constantly dealing with customers can get tiring after a while and certainly wears on the average person which is why it is more important than ever to invest in improving contact center morale. However, it is important to recognize the importance of a contact center representative’s job, and what value they bring to the brand overall.
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CustomerServ
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
A commodity is commonly referred to as a type of widely available product or service that is not significantly different from one unit to another. Does this apply to call center outsourcing services as well?
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CustomerServ
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
A commodity is commonly referred to as a type of widely available product or service that is not significantly different from one unit to another. Does this apply to call center outsourcing services as well?
Uniphore
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Doing a better job than an agent. While a robot would never be able to take the place of agent 007, there is a school of thought that suggests that a personalized self-service solution offers many advantages over a human contact center agent. Read More.
Talkdesk
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
The Talkdesk Road Show kicked off last month in Chicago to discuss designing the intelligent contact center. We were lucky to have some incredible speakers to help us share our vision for the future of the contact center space. One of these leaders was SpotHero’s Support Operations Manager, Nate Peace. Nate has been an outspoken leader in the customer support space for quite a while.
CSM Magazine
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
The brand new report THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER CONTACT REPORT: Automation, Self-Service & the New Agent has been just released by the editorial team at the Executive Customer Contact Exchange, BFSI featuring interviews and articles from leaders that are facing customer service challenges such as: Chief Executive Office, Atom Bank. Head of Operations , AXA Business Insurance.
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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
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Each year as Southeasterners brace for another hurricane season they are advised to develop disaster recovery plans. How will they protect their home? How should they stock their pantries? Where will they evacuate to? This year’s active hurricane season prompts us all to reflect on our own readiness in case of disaster, including in the contact center.
Myra Golden Media
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be. Wayne Dyer said that. Always speak in complete sentences. Don’t say, “Zip code?” Say, “May I have your zip code, please?”. Let upset customers vent for a few seconds. And while customers vent, offer simple reassurances, like “Um hmm” or “I see.”. Bridge into questions, like this, “To determine what has happened, I will need to ask you some questions.” Strive to respond to emails wit
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
This week we feature an article by Belle Balace who talks about what you need to know about answering support tickets. There are different types of customers and it’s important to know how to deal with each one. – Shep Hyken. I have to be honest, answering support tickets or doing customer service isn’t the most thrilling job on earth but if you’re part of a startup or small business and you lack resources, you have no choice but to do it.
Verint
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
One of the leading industrial solutions providers in the United States and a longtime Verint customer, MSC Industrial Supply Co. was interested in how it could improve productivity, enhance the customer experience, and keep operating costs down through a single, unified workforce optimization platform. Today, the organization leverages Verint Workforce Optimization across its customer service operations to help it evaluate thousands of customer interactions daily to make faster, better decisions
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.
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