Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) meted out a $185 million fine that included a $100 million penalty to Wells Fargo in 2016 for their violation and abuse of consumer trust. The San Francisco-based bank, whose employees opened many fraudulent and unauthorized accounts in their customers’ name, now enjoys the dubious honor of shouldering the most substantial penalty the agency has issued since its formation in 2011.

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Contact Center Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

When it comes to culture, lasting change starts at the top with the leadership team. “Employees are ready to be engaged and empowered,” says employee and customer empowerment expert Shawn Casemore, author of The Unstoppable Organization: Empower Your People, Engage Your Customers and Grow Your Revenue. “It’s the mindset shift in leadership that is the […].

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BetterXperience

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

You are measuring the wrong things in your service center, it is a big reason your CX efforts are having trouble getting traction or funding. There is a better way.

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The Northridge Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Customer experience is top of mind in every organization. Keys to a successful enterprise are centered around realizing the lifetime value of a customer and designing work processes that create customer “delight”, resulting in their likelihood to recommend you to others. According to our recent customer service experience report , 80% of consumers say they will switch to a different company because of bad customer service, and only half say they would consider returning – the stakes are high!

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

*This post was guest-authored by Ryan Gould from Elevation Marketing *. Instead of assigning social media to a separate department, many call centers are employing social media as an additional – and helpful – customer service tool. Customers, as it turns out, are responding positively. Studies show that that one out of every three customers prefers social media to using the phone for customer service.

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UJET

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2017, we saw some of today's biggest companies face major customer support challenges, most of which could have been avoided had they implemented the right technologies and processes. Not only does poor customer service lose organizations a massive amount of money (nearly $62 billion per year), it damages reputations, hurts customer retention, and affects the bottom line.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The relationship between contact centers and their customers can be a volatile one. Sometimes the experience is just not up to par, other times customers are ranting and raving about how happy they are. I’m sure your contact center can relate to both sides of the spectrum. Just keep in mind, there are always things you can do to increase the amount of positive outcomes you receive.

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Branch Mesenger

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In the past two decades, there has been a new entrant in the restaurant vertical: fast casual establishments. Not quite fast food. Not quite full-service restaurant. Fast casual is a blend of the speedy service elements that has made fast food chains like McDonalds legendary. Unlike many of the fast food restaurants, fast casual tends to feature healthier, fresh ingredients despite the speed at which their meals are prepared.

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Bright Pattern

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The cloud contact center space continues to grow as enterprises look to replace their end-of-life premise-based contact centers. Cloud vendors continue to innovate and develop capabilities making it more beneficial to operate contact centers in the cloud. Because of the many vendors, if can be difficult for enterprises to efficiently evaluate the solutions available.

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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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Toister Performance Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

My credit card recently expired, which meant updating accounts such as Netflix, cable, etc. where the card was used for automatic payment. It was a strangely inconsistent process from company to company. My cable company's website wasn't working, so I had to contact a live agent. I opted for chat, hoping this would be the most convenient. It was not a great experience.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

IVAs Can Remake the Self-Service Landscape. 2/9/2018. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. A remarkable thing is happening in the realm of customer service: After years of rejecting self-service, customers are changing their tune. Consumers of all ages are showing a preference for self-service solutions over talking to agents or using chat boxes, provided they do their jobs well.

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Strategic Contact

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Contact center management labors under constant pressure to do more with less… FASTER! The latter often results in hurried technology implementations that fall short of the benefits the center hoped to realize. The following tables summarize the dos and don’ts of project execution and functionality deliver positive results. Project Execution Don’t: Do: Business Impact Launch.

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Monet Software

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As every contact center manager knows, there is stuff you can control and stuff you can’t. You cannot control the number of calls received every day – though a workforce management solution can deliver accurate forecasts to remove much of the guesswork. But you can control agent start times and end times. It’s up to the manager to decide whether these should be fixed, or if it is preferable to adopt a more flexible shift model.

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Provide Support

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Critical Thinking For Customer Service. Customer service jobs require a composite mix of soft and hard skills for success. To positively interact with customers and team members we need social and emotional intellegence, and self-regulation skills. We also need lots of technical expertise, general industry and product knowledge to handle everyday customer requests effectively.

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Monet Software

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Important data and critical insights are contained in every phone call fielded by your contact center. Are you making the most of them? You are, if you have a speech analytics solution. If you have not added speech analytics to your business yet, there are messages being sent by your customers that agents may not recognize. And when those messages are overlooked, those customers may not remain customers for long.

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Thinq

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Telinta and thinQ offer a joint promotion, enabling VoIP service providers to benefit from high-quality switching, billing, VoIP Termination and… The post Telinta and thinQ Work Together to Offer Savings for VoIP Service Providers appeared first on thinQ.

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Monet Software

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Last year, the Harvard Business Review interviewed 7,500 customer service representatives from more than 30 countries around the world. It found there were three types of business cultures in this sector: Adherence In these companies, everything is done “by the book”. Rules are established for how to handle situations, and no exceptions permitted. Personal Judgment Here, employees are allowed (and encouraged) to make decisions based on their best judgment and personal experience.

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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!

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Thinq

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Telinta and thinQ offer a joint promotion, enabling VoIP service providers to benefit from high-quality switching, billing, VoIP Termination and… The post Telinta and thinQ Work Together to Offer Savings for VoIP Service Providers appeared first on thinQ.

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Service Agility

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Originally published in The Contact Center Pipeline, October 2016 My flight just got cancelled, and I have to make it home tonight to attend my daughter’s holiday dance recital. Or maybe, after 17 years of paying premiums, I have to file my first claim. Or, maybe my PC is all locked up, and I’ve got a key client deliverable due in two hours. I need to call.

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Thinq

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The post Telinta and thinQ Work Together to Offer Savings for VoIP Service Providers appeared first on THINQ - Better Voice & Messaging for Telcos, Contact Centers, & Enterprises.

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Jon Arnold

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Got my hands full here at ITExpo this week, and am behind on writing and blogging. Got a few posts to get out today, starting with this one. Having emerged from Chapter 11 and going IPO last month, Avaya has the makings of the Great American Comeback story. The elements are certainly there, but many big questions still remain, and this isn't really a clean slate fresh start.

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Speaker: Steve Pappas, Chief Strategist, Startup and Early Stage Growth Advisor, Keynote Speaker, CX Podcaster

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The foundation of customer advocacy is knowing your customers. What they need, expect and experience. But that knowledge won’t get you far without the means to act. I explore what that requires in the video below, part of the Lynda.com … Continue reading → The post Customer Advocacy: Creating the Means to Act appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Jon Arnold

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Just a quick shout-out about my newsletter, which I finally got going in December. Some of you follow my blog on your own, and many track it via RSS. That's fine, but what I really want is for you to sign up for my newsletter, which I'm trying to make into a monthly thing. That's easier said than done given all the hats I wear, but the February edition has now been sent to subscribers, and the feedback has been positive.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

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. In a new article for Contact Center Pipeline , I discuss some simple, practical ways that organizations can demonstrate to their customers that they matter.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The foundation of customer advocacy is knowing your customers. What they need, expect and experience. But that knowledge won’t get you far without the means to act. I explore what that requires in the video below, part of the Lynda.com course Customer Advocacy. Creating the means to act from Customer Advocacy by Brad Cleveland.

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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Customer Guru

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The foundation of customer advocacy is knowing your customers. What they need, expect and experience. But that knowledge won’t get you far without the means to act. I explore what that requires in the video below, part of the Lynda.com course Customer Advocacy. Creating the means to act from Customer Advocacy by Brad Cleveland.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

If you have ever met me, or indeed read anything I have written, it is extremely likely you will know that I am rather passionate about the Customer Experience (CX) Profession. In fact, anyone who comes in to contact with me via any means will almost certainly fail to avoid that fact! I make no apology for it – those of us who have chosen to dedicate our careers to enabling organisations to genuinely ‘operationalise’ CX, need and deserve to have their skills and capabilities re

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