Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 18, 2016

Ever blown it with a Customer? Sure. We all have. Mistakes are part of being human, after all. But hopefully, you learned from it, made your sincere apology, and carried on. Here are 8 big mistakes with Customer Experience that we hope brands learned from: “It’s not the pants, it’s your body type” excuse from Lululemon. Remember when the CEO of Lululemon Chip Wilson said the reason that their pants weren’t wearing well was because the pants weren’t made for all women’s bodies—particularly those

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Callminer

JANUARY 26, 2016

As recent research shows, the U.S. call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 22,265 new positions added in Q3 2015, minus 5,678 jobs that were cut due to force reductions and closures. What this means is there’s an imperative for call centers to drive operational performance excellence […]. The post 11 Call Center Best Practices You Need to Be Doing Right Now appeared first on CallMiner.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 18, 2016

because you may not like the answers This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Rose-colored glasses. Yes, that what they’re called. I had mine on…bet you did too. I knew I was a still just a junior manager but I walked around like the king. I was the newest big shot. Got things done, yes, that was me! Boss needed a project completed, I was the man.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2016

People management was at the top of the Pipeline reading list in January. The most-read posts for the month offered tips to help frontline staff shine in 2016; New Year’s resolutions for managers to engage staff, improve the center’s performance and enhance their own skills; advice for leading your millennial agents; pointers for developing a […].

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Peter Lavers

JANUARY 26, 2016

We’re delighted to announce that WCL’s Cross Sector Relationship Marketing and Customer Experience Director, Peter Lavers, has again been recognised as a leading influencer in the field of Customer care and Customer Experience! Click on the image to read the article. The post Peter Lavers features on Vcare’s Top 50 Customer Care Influencers List appeared first on Think CX.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2016

In this series, professionals describe the skills they’re building this year. Read the stories here , then write your own (use #SkillsGap in the body of your post). There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line.

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Callminer

JANUARY 7, 2016

TCPA compliance has increased in importance due to last year’s FCC Declaratory Ruling. Read how TCPA safe harbor and speech analytics can help.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 4, 2016

and they're watching your employees too! This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Sitting on that park bench on Sunday afternoon, what are you doing? Reading a book, feeding the birds, eating lunch, talking with a friend or loved one? Or maybe you’re just “people-watching”. We do it all the time. The guy that is pacing around the mall while his wife is clothes shopping, the little old lady sitting in her rocking chair looking out the window, and the school principal walking the courty

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2016

How do you begin to translate your company’s brand promise into actions that your frontline agents can carry out? One of the key strategic questions to ask your executive team is, what is the experience that we’re trying to deliver? “It is quite surprising, but most organizations can’t articulate that,” says Colin Shaw, founder and […].

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 14, 2016

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Joe Rawlinson

JANUARY 27, 2016

With a saturation of marketing and advertising, companies rely more on consumer emotions to sell a product. Between television, radio and the Internet, there are a lot of mediums to lose a message. But these four emotions and strategies are key ways to engage new customers in 2016. Sentimental Marketing. If you took the early Betty Crocker commercials of the 1950s and compared them to advertising in 2015, the differences would be night and day.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 14, 2016

Isn’t it a company’s first priority not to harm their Customers? I maybe old fashioned but surely ensuring your Customers’ safety is your BIGGEST responsibility as a brand. Apparently, someone should have reminded Fiat Chrysler. Fiat Chrysler was fined $70 Million by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Why? Failing to report fatalities, injuries, and warranty repairs.

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Callminer

JANUARY 14, 2016

Workforce optimization in the call center can lead to improved agent performance and better interactions with customers. Read more.

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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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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 14, 2016

that's one of the worst things an employee can say to me. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Something happened the other day that reminded me of a time when I was still new in this business. Yes, I didn’t have the 25+ years of experience as I do now but I still had enough under my belt to know what was going on and how to evaluate a department and its staff.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 26, 2016

“Plan it, prove it.” I say those words to every client. To me, they define the role of WFM in the contact center. It is my vision of how WFM should work and what WFMers (that’s my term for Workforce management professionals) should focus on every day. The WFM function sits in an uncomfortable position […].

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 7, 2016

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 15, 2016

Meeting customer expectations is incredibly important for any business that wants to be successful today. It takes careful management and a number of strategies to keep customers satisfied. Unsatisfied customers could potentially harm your business by giving bad reviews or simply stop making purchases. Here are six tips to make sure you are meeting your customers’ expectations.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2016

Customer Loyalty is a gold standard for most businesses. There are numerous ways that you earn (and lose) Customer Loyalty. But one way that anyone can do is one of the most effective ways to create a Customer Experience that keeps them coming back for more. Pivoting is a technique well-known by the Public Relations industry. It means changing the direction of the conversation to get back to your core message.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 28, 2016

For all its promise, and all its hype, big data has always had one inherent problem. You see, big data is. well, big. And when you're facing something big, you may find it overwhelming. And when you find something overwhelming, you may find yourself in the fetal position. But let’s get you off that cold linoleum floor and discuss how to best use customer feedback.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 25, 2016

how well did you do in Part 1? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Did you ask your employees any of the questions in. You must have the perfect department then, the perfect employees and have nothing to gain by this exercise, so don’t bother with Part 2 – stop reading now. Go back to your cubicle and read the paper. Check on your budget, read your emails, do anything but improve.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 21, 2016

In a business sense, culture is defined (by Merriam-Webster) as “the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.” But the key to the culture is not simply having a set of core values—it’s the expected behaviors that are attached to those values, says Tim Kuppler, director of culture […].

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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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airespring

JANUARY 20, 2016

There are important facts that should be taken into account before purchasing a business phone system. For all of the technological changes in our lives, the 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service report by Parature found that the vast majority of people—over 80%—still prefer to use mobile or landline phones when communicating with businesses.

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 11, 2016

Continuous improvement is a key characteristic of the most successful customer experience. Successful service organizations realize that no service initiative is perfect and have a framework in place to capture results and analyze them for potential improvement towards better customer experiences. Many of the quality management practices the Japanese manufacturing system is well-known for can be traced back to statisticians like W.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 27, 2016

More often these days we get calls at our headquarters with Customer Experience champions wondering what happened to the huge gains in their Customer Experience metrics they used to get. The problem is many of them have implemented Customer Experience measures, had great improvements to metrics like their Net Promoter Scores, and then watched the score plateau.

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The Call Center School

JANUARY 13, 2016

The true cost of poor customer service. As last month’s twinkling trees and delightful decorations now seem something of a distant memory, customer expectations show absolutely no signs of slowing down as we welcome another new year.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 21, 2016

ever been asked a question from a woman that you were not sure how to answer? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Was it her style, flair, mannerism or just her own way of interacting with others that made her unique, or caught you off guard? But what happens when her “style” is not appropriate for the situation? What do we say?

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 20, 2016

Our coaches occupy the most critical blocks on our organizational charts. Wedged between those who set the policies for handling customers and those who carry out those policies, it is our coaches—supervisors mostly, but also trainers, QA staff and others—who translate objectives to behaviors. This interpretation happens hundreds or possibly thousands of times a day […].

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Topdown

JANUARY 26, 2016

In customer experience management, there’s little dispute that the customer comes first. Everything you do should serve the customer’s needs and improve his or her experience with your brand, products and services in some way. Why? Because satisfied customers are loyal customers who buy again and spread positive word of mouth about your brand, which is the most valuable kind of marketing in our modern connected marketplace.

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