June, 2012

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Urgent Communications’ Glenn Bischoff Interviews NICE’s Diamond Chaflawee at NENA

Customer Interactions

'Urgent Communications’ Editor Glenn Bischoff recently caught up with Diamond Chaflawee, NICE Systems’ Director of Marketing for the Public Safety Sector, at NENA. Diamond gave Glenn a primer on NICE Inform’s Next Gen 9-1-1 capabilities and talked about some of the new features of Inform coming down the road. In this video interview Diamond discusses how in the future PSAPs will be able to use NICE Inform to capture and manage any traffic coming through the ESInet, including SI

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Companies Using Access Strategies to Bolster Their Brands

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad shares examples of organizations that are shaping access strategies that support and further their brands. Brad shares examples of organizations that are shaping access strategies that support and further their brands.

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PSIM: Ready for Takeoff

Customer Interactions

'Airport environments are anything but simple – and that makes securing them evermore complex. Toward this end, airports collectively spend billions on aviation security annually. While this technology has automated and greatly improved many functions, it has also created some challenges – precisely the types of challenges that PSIM was created to address.

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Companies Using Access Strategies to Bolster Their Brands

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad shares examples of organizations that are shaping access strategies that support and further their brands. Brad shares examples of organizations that are shaping access strategies that support and further their brands.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Is Social Media a Channel or a Strategy?

Brad Cleveland Blog

What is social media? A channel? A strategy? How we use these terms matters! This podcast is also available as an article: Is Social Media a Channel or a Strategy? What is social media? A channel? A strategy? How we use these terms matters! This podcast is also available as an article: Is Social Media a Channel or a Strategy?

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Questions Answered by Your Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Shaping an effective customer access strategy will enable you to answer many important questions. Shaping an effective customer access strategy will enable you to answer many important questions.

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Questions Answered by Your Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Shaping an effective customer access strategy will enable you to answer many important questions. Shaping an effective customer access strategy will enable you to answer many important questions.

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What Does a Customer Access Strategy Look Like?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Customer access strategies are like business plans – they vary greatly. Here, Brad discusses a standout example of an effective access strategy. Customer access strategies are like business plans – they vary greatly. Here, Brad discusses a standout example of an effective access strategy.

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What Does a Customer Access Strategy Look Like?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Customer access strategies are like business plans – they vary greatly. Here, Brad discusses a standout example of an effective access strategy. Customer access strategies are like business plans - they vary greatly. Here, Brad discusses a standout example of an effective access strategy.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

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

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Components Of an Effective Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

In this podcast, Brad identifies the major components of an effective customer access strategy: customers, contact types, access alternatives, hours of operation, service level and response time objectives, routing methodology, people and technology resources needed, required information, analysis and improvement, and guidelines for deploying new services.

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Components Of an Effective Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

In this podcast, Brad identifies the major components of an effective customer access strategy: customers, contact types, access alternatives, hours of operation, service level and response time objectives, routing methodology, people and technology resources needed, required information, analysis and improvement, and guidelines for deploying new services.

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The Importance of a Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Your customer access strategy is an important tool for ensuring that your strategic direction is aligned with customer needs and expectations. Your customer access strategy is an important tool for ensuring that your strategic direction is aligned with customer needs and expectations.

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The Importance of a Customer Access Strategy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Your customer access strategy is an important tool for ensuring that your strategic direction is aligned with customer needs and expectations. Your customer access strategy is an important tool for ensuring that your strategic direction is aligned with customer needs and expectations.

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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.

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An Overview Of My New Book

Brad Cleveland Blog

Call Center Management On Fast Forward: Succeeding in the New Era of Customer Relationships (third edition) hits the shelves in May 2012. This podcast is also available as an article: An Overview Of My Upcoming Book Call Center Management On Fast Forward: Succeeding in the New Era of Customer Relationships (third edition) hits the shelves in May 2012.

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An Overview Of My New Book

Brad Cleveland Blog

Call Center Management On Fast Forward: Succeeding in the New Era of Customer Relationships (third edition) hits the shelves in May 2012. This podcast is also available as an article: An Overview Of My Upcoming Book Call Center Management On Fast Forward: Succeeding in the New Era of Customer Relationships (third edition) hits the shelves in May 2012.

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How I Got into this Field

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad tells the story of how he got started and how important his mentors were to him. “So many people come from so many different backgrounds” in this profession. Brad tells the story of how he got started and how important his mentors were to him. “So many people come from so many different backgrounds” in this profession.

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How I Got into this Field

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad tells the story of how he got started and how important his mentors were to him. “So many people come from so many different backgrounds” in this profession. Brad tells the story of how he got started and how important his mentors were to him. "So many people come from so many different backgrounds" in this profession.

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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!

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Traits of the Best Leaders

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad shares his views on the most important traits in leaders: Authenticity, effective communication, and competence. This podcast is also available as an article: Traits of the Best Leaders Brad shares his views on the most important traits in leaders: Authenticity, effective communication, and competence.

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Traits of the Best Leaders

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad shares his views on the most important traits in leaders: Authenticity, effective communication, and competence. This podcast is also available as an article: Traits of the Best Leaders Brad shares his views on the most important traits in leaders: Authenticity, effective communication, and competence. This podcast is also available as an article: Traits of the Best Leaders.

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The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad discusses 7 categories of measures every contact center should have: Forecast accuracy, schedule fit and adherence, service level, quality, employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic value. This podcast is also available as an article: The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have Brad discusses 7 categories of measures every contact center should have: Forecast accuracy, schedule fit and adherence, service level, quality, employee satisfaction, customer satisfa

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The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have

Brad Cleveland Blog

Brad discusses 7 categories of measures every contact center should have: Forecast accuracy, schedule fit and adherence, service level, quality, employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic value. This podcast is also available as an article: The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have Brad discusses 7 categories of measures every contact center should have: Forecast accuracy, schedule fit and adherence, service level, quality, employee satisfaction, customer satisfa

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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.

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The Value of a Contact Center

Brad Cleveland Blog

Call centers (contact centers) can create value on three levels: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic impact (through intelligence that improves products, services and processes). Call centers (contact centers) can create value on three levels: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic impact (through intelligence that improves products, services and processes).

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The Value of a Contact Center

Brad Cleveland Blog

Call centers (contact centers) can create value on three levels: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic impact (through intelligence that improves products, services and processes). Call centers (contact centers) can create value on three levels: efficiency, customer satisfaction and loyalty, and strategic impact (through intelligence that improves products, services and processes).

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Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Here, Brad discusses how call center strategy and management is (and isn’t) changing. This podcast is also available as an article: Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed? Here, Brad discusses how call center strategy and management is (and isn’t) changing. This podcast is also available as an article: Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed?

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Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Here, Brad discusses how call center strategy and management is (and isn’t) changing. This podcast is also available as an article: Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed? Here, Brad discusses how call center strategy and management is (and isn't) changing. This podcast is also available as an article: Have Call Center Fundamentals Changed?

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

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.

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Will Social Communities and Mobile Apps Replace Call Centers?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Social communities and mobile apps will not replace call centers. But they will change them dramatically. Social communities and mobile apps will not replace call centers. But they will change them dramatically.

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Will Social Communities and Mobile Apps Replace Call Centers?

Brad Cleveland Blog

Social communities and mobile apps will not replace call centers. But they will change them dramatically. Social communities and mobile apps will not replace call centers. But they will change them dramatically.

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Customer Service Through Social Channels

Brad Cleveland Blog

How do organizations get started in delivering services through social channels? It’s a pretty simple formula: Listen, learn and dialogue. This podcast is also available as an article: /resources/articles/customer-service-through-social-channels/ How do organizations get started in delivering services through social channels? It’s a pretty simple formula: Listen, learn and dialogue.