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22 Customer Service Experts Reveal How Call Center Reps Should Address Complaints About Bad Customer Service
Callminer
JULY 30, 2020
No company wants to receive complaints about bad customer service, but even companies that strive to create exceptional customer service will occasionally disappoint a customer. In many cases, those complaints first reach the ears of a call center rep. That’s why patience, empathy, and active listening skills are among the most important skills every call center rep should have.
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What you need to know about internal customer service
Toister Performance Solutions
JULY 23, 2020
"I won't give you that report." The report tracked the percentage of successful credit card offers made by each sales rep in our contact center. The initiative was created by the marketing department, and a marketing manager controlled access to the report. This was more than twenty years ago, when large reports were printed and distributed as physical copies.
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A Boring Customer Service Experience—That’s What Our Customers Want
ShepHyken
JULY 29, 2020
Call me boring, but I want the same thing every time—at least when it comes to customer experience. I want it to be good. I want it to be consistent. I want to predict the experience I’m going to have with the people and places I do business with. If you ask the CEO of a big company or the owner of a small business, I bet they would say the same. We want our customers to always have a good experience with us—one they can count on always happening every time they do business with us.
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6 Things Contact Center Agents Are Too Afraid to Tell Their Managers
Fonolo
JULY 21, 2020
Lots of conversations happen daily at your contact center. But do you know what’s being left unsaid? An open, communicative work environment is the key to a healthy and vibrant work culture. Saying you have an open-door work policy is easy; making sure that your contact center agents feel comfortable voicing their concerns to management is much more challenging.
The Impact of Increased Handle Times
Call Design
JULY 7, 2020
Written by Michel Niere. In our third instalment in the WFM and New Normal series, we talk about the impacts of increased handle times. As a lot of contact centres have quickly had to adopt work from home strategies to maintain BAU status, there have been some things to be wary of, and increased AHT is one of them. Some of the causes of increased AHT might be due to: Technical issues like the internet not being fast enough, therefore taking longer to load information and as a result increasing t
Truth in Teamwork: How cross-functional collaboration drives remote resolutions
TechSee
JULY 21, 2020
Many enterprises struggle to deliver excellent customer care and suffer from a range of operational inefficiencies due to a lack of inter-departmental communication and cross-functional collaboration. Their agents and technicians are effectively siloed. A rep may promise a customer next-day service but then field service cannot provide a technician.
Improving Customer and Employee Retention: Tips and Strategies
Joe Rawlinson
JULY 5, 2020
The retention of customers and employees is correlated to a point. A customer that has worked with a specific client manager or staff member will have a rapport with the employee. Constant turnover can make it difficult to build that rapport that is so important in customer retention. Boosting employee retention can require quite a few changes to company policies and hiring processes.
The Verint Experience Index: Retail
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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
Current Challenges Facing Financial Services Contact Centers
ConvergeOne
JULY 28, 2020
According to our research with Avaya and CatalystMR, there are two main areas contact center challenges fall within: customer support and data/technology.
How to Succeed in Leadership, Marketing, Innovation and Insight
C3Centricity
JULY 20, 2020
Although I love quotes, especially about how to succeed, I love success even more. Do you? One of my favourite quotes on the topic of success comes from Winston Churchill during his address to the Harrow School (UK) during WWII in 1941. It was one of his shortest speeches but probably one of his most quoted. He said: “Never give in, never, never, never, never” If you are interested, you can read his full speech – which is not a lot longer!
5 Strategies for CX Excellence
PeopleMetrics
JULY 20, 2020
After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". Here they are! Measuring the customer and employee experience is a continuous process, not an event.
Re-Imagining Your Customer Experience in a Time of Change
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 2, 2020
Some people watch things happen, some make things happen, and some say, “what happened?” Some organizations out there concerning the pandemic (and maybe other things, too) are falling into that third category. In this issue, we will discuss how to avoid being one of them. There’s a silver lining in everything, even this pandemic. We discussed this subject in a recent podcast.
Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity
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.
Would You Fight to Make Your Customers Happy?
ShepHyken
JULY 22, 2020
These are the kind of people—and the kind of company—you want to do business with. First, a little background. I was having a conversation with a colleague and came up with the idea that you shouldn’t have to fight with a company to get your problem resolved or for them to make you happy. They should want to make you happy. Just a couple days later I saw this idea in action, but with a twist.
Customer Service Specialist is one of 10 jobs identified as having the most significant number of job openings
Myra Golden Media
JULY 1, 2020
Customer Service Specialist is one of 10 jobs identified as having the most significant number of job openings*, have had steady growth over the past four years, pay a livable wage, and require skills that can be learned online. Here is a no-cost learning path with four of my LinkedIn Learning classes , to help you 1)build rapport, 2)control conversations, 3) create positive conversations with challenging customers, and 4) de-escalate intense interactions.
24 Marketers, CX Experts & Analytics Pros Reveal the Most Creative Uses of Predictive Analytics to Improve the Customer Experience
Callminer
JULY 21, 2020
Marketers, analytics pros, and CX experts named these the most innovative ways companies are leveraging predictive analytics to improve customer experience.
How Have your Customers’ and Employees Expectations Changed?
CX Accelerator
JULY 1, 2020
Written by Nick Glimsdahl. We find ourselves in unprecedented – certainly, the word of the year – times. While America and the globe continues to #stayhome for the health of our fellow man and woman, we all would do well to reflect on and capture lessons learned. One question asked repeatedly in this season is, “When will we return to normal?” But, in the rush to return to normal, let’s all take time to consider what is worth hurrying back to.
SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success
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!
Your Customers Are Always Watching – Tip #5
Steve DiGioia
JULY 2, 2020
What do you do when you think no one is watching? Are you chewing gum, twirling your hair, or resting your foot on the wall behind you? Do you tell off-color jokes because you think no one can hear you? Is your posture one of confidence or submission? Is your face warm and welcoming to others or stern and stand-offish? Would a customer feel comfortable approaching you or rather seek out someone else for assistance?
How to Enhance Your Customer’s Memory of Their Experience
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 16, 2020
I’m obsessed with memory. I love the subject and discussing the behavioral sciences that explain it. Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. We discussed this concept on a recent podcast with guest Zoey Chen, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business.
You Can’t Automate Your Customer Relationship
ShepHyken
JULY 1, 2020
I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how three out of four customers are more loyal to your employee than your business. This research came from OnePoll on behalf of DaySmart Software. They surveyed 2,000 Americans and found that in many businesses, customers are more loyal to the employee—so much so that almost half (48%) will follow their favorite employee if they leave to work at a competing business.
Caring for Customers During a Pandemic
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 15, 2020
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been multilayered, creating widespread fear and stress over health and safety, income, finances, child care, elder care and the economy. In just a matter of weeks, lifestyles were dramatically altered, businesses shuttered and global markets tanked. Contact centers abandoned carefully structured strategies and processes in the scramble to […].
Contact Center Dialers Demystified
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.
5 Benefits Of An API Integration In Your Contact Center
Callminer
JULY 19, 2020
Contact centers often utilize APIs to create an agent dashboard that combines sales and service information in one central location, introducing gamification initiatives.
4 Ways to Reduce Agent Turnover in Your Contact Centre
Call Design
JULY 22, 2020
One of the most significant challenges that contact centres face is an incredibly high rate of agent turnover, creating a cyclical problem where the Learning and Development team is continuously training new agents for them only to stay with the company for a couple of months. This can be expensive. In this blog, we have four strategies for contact centres that are hoping to retain their agents and reduce turnover.
Are Your Pet Peeves Putting Your Job in Danger? – Tip #9
Steve DiGioia
JULY 30, 2020
First off, what’s a “pet peeve”? Well, according to Merriam-Websters dictionary, it’s “something that annoys or bothers a person very much” Are your pet peeves putting your job in danger? I hope not. You know, let’s be honest… Each of us knows someone that drives us nuts. That crazy uncle that tells the worst jokes, that neighbor who’s always sticking her nose in your business, or how about that coworker that constantly tries to “one-up
What A Face Mask Can Do for Customer Segmentation
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 9, 2020
A genuine effort to understand your customers’ emotions is essential to your Customer Experience design. Also, when you can segment based on customers’ behavior and the needs the behavior indicates, you can customize your experience to appeal to each segment. Today, I have a new form of segmentation that I have been working on to help people during the pandemic.
The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team
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Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.
Another Way to Amaze Your Customers – Pay Attention
ShepHyken
JULY 15, 2020
I recently wrote about taking the extra step to deliver amazing service. There were three steps: pay attention, care about your customers and put forth extra effort. For this article, I want to focus on the first step—paying attention. Paying attention is more than just the first step. It may be the most important step. One of our readers, Scott Anderson, shared a story about staying at a resort in Mexico.
COVID-19 Impact: Recalibrating Human & AI Roles in the Contact Center, Part 1
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 22, 2020
As the global economy gradually reopens under evolving guidance and safety protocols for companies, employees and customers, business leaders are contemplating a vastly altered vision of the future of work from just a few months ago. For many service and support operations, the sudden impact of COVID-19 exposed critical flaws and vulnerabilities in processes and […].
22 Customer Service Experts Reveal How Call Center Reps Should Address Complaints About Bad Customer Service
Callminer
JULY 29, 2020
A panel of customer service experts and call center professionals explain how call center reps should address complaints about bad customer service.
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