Bright Pattern
AUGUST 23, 2018
Last week Part 1 of the Predicting Contact Center Average Handle Time blog series discussed real-world examples and how to build a histogram to extract useful information for your contact center. In Part 2 we will dive into some of the more advanced approaches to predicting average handle time.
Fonolo
AUGUST 22, 2018
Just like me, you probably remember dozens of random 1-800 phone conversations with Johns, Jacobs, or Janes. They have called us from contact centers in the middle of the work day, when we ourselves were working on getting through that jerk chicken during a barely 15-minute lunch break. If I am not wrong, then it is safe to say that nine out of 10 times, we have hung up after the robotic, brief introduction and then wondered why they bothered calling us in the first place.
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CustomerServ
AUGUST 21, 2018
Consumers are scrutinizing companies’ core values like never before, thanks in part to social media and the internet. A brand’s commitment to diversity and inclusion demonstrates guiding principles that resonate especially with millennials—currently the largest and most influential consumer base, and the most diverse generation in U.S. history. The millennial population is now 44% minority, according to a recent report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 24, 2018
Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton explore the study of customer emotions and how they influence customer experience and tendencies to buy. Explore the latest academic studies and how researchers have evoked specific emotions, what they mean, and how you can use them. The post How Do I Evoke Customer Emotions? appeared first on.
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Callminer
AUGUST 22, 2018
Once you’ve collected the data, you need to do something with it to improve the customer experience and deliver exceptional customer service consistently. Actionable analytics is key.
Customer Contact Central brings together the best content for Contact Center and Customer Service professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Myra Golden Media
AUGUST 20, 2018
When a customer reaches out to you about a problem, they usually don’t think things will be easy. They expect to enter a fray. To customers, it’s them against you. Visually, it’s like this. There’s a brick wall between you and your customer. You are on one side of the wall, and your customer is on the other. The customer sees the issue they’re trying to get resolved as being on the same side of the brick wall as you.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 23, 2018
Non-conscious influence has a significant effect on your customer’s behavior. Non-conscious influences are stimuli of which a customer is not aware. What’s more, these non-conscious influences exist in your Customer Experience even if you haven’t been deliberate about your design of them. In our latest podcast , we defined some terms that describe the information that influences behavior, including: Subliminal: Something you sense but that your conscious mind did not register, meaning it is pi
Callminer
AUGUST 23, 2018
No matter what industry you serve, chances are your customers have high expectations. As a contact center, it is your primary responsibility to understand and manage customer expectations. That includes determining if customers feel their needs are being met on every call. Collecting this valuable speech and text data or over all interaction data is just the first step in managing customer expectations though.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 22, 2018
Someone once said that if you want to know if the company is treating their employees well, try the coffee. The coffee? Really? Okay, I get it. One little detail can give you a glimpse into a much bigger picture. The idea is that the coffee machine and the quality of the coffee is an indication of how the employees are treated. One day we hired an employee to work at Shepard Presentations.
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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
iCiDIGITAL
AUGUST 23, 2018
You may remember the BASF commercials back in the 80’s and 90’s that always included the tagline “ We don’t make the products you buy, we make the products you buy better. ” That line always stood out to me and I recently realized why. That line reiterates a core reason why companies partner with us and trust us to develop their customer experiences.
Customer Guru
AUGUST 21, 2018
Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. 31. John DiJulius Follow @JohnDiJulius. John R. DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant.
Callminer
AUGUST 21, 2018
Read the full Aberdeen report here to gain a full understanding of which strategies and trends are most important in 2018.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 20, 2018
I’ve spent my professional career teaching companies and individuals how to provide amazing customer service and a customer experience (CX) that would keep customers coming back and help their businesses to grow and thrive. But today, customers expect more. They know what good service looks like and they expect it. And, they not only compare you just to your direct competitor, but to the best service they have ever received – from anyone.
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.
ProProfs Blog
AUGUST 24, 2018
We’ve all been there. After making a purchase, you’re dissatisfied with a product or service. After being in touch with a customer service representative, the process becomes even more aggravating when a solution isn’t reached. Inaction, rudeness and failure to take ownership of their mistakes – these are just some of the negative approaches to customer success that have left a black mark on many organizations.
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 21, 2018
The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. As we discussed in Lesson #5 , NPS is important to include in your VoC program, but if you’re running a transactional VoC survey, you need other ways to measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS. Here are 3 ways you can measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS: Ask how satisfied the customer was with their last experience.
Transparent BPO
AUGUST 21, 2018
It stands to reason that the more satisfied the customer, the higher the CSAT score and the more profitable the business. That’s the premise behind my latest article at Nearshore Americas. Getting customers to spend more is not the only reason to increase CSAT, however: customer loyalty is another. “CSAT Scores are a primary indicator […] The post Increase CSAT Scores & Improve ROI appeared first on Transparent BPO.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 20, 2018
Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. T-Mobile is completely overhauling how its customer service works by Chris Welch. (The Verge) Team of Experts launches nationwide today for postpaid customers.
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!
Customer Experience Matters
AUGUST 21, 2018
We just published a Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2018. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the connection between customer experience (CX) and loyalty, we examined feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers describing both their experiences with and their loyalty to different companies. The CX scores used in this model come from the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR), which evaluated 318 companies across 20 industries.
TeleDirect
AUGUST 21, 2018
[link]. Know your brand, Know your customer. Have an in depth understanding of your customer to better solve their problems. Build trust with reliable communication. Always respond promptly and make your contact info easy to find. Pay attention to key touch points. How do your customers prefer to contact you? Cater to them! Give customer an easy way to provide feedback.
TELUS International
AUGUST 22, 2018
Content moderation is now a key part of the customer experience. Learn how to protect your customers by keeping trolls at bay.
Toister Performance Solutions
AUGUST 23, 2018
You've probably heard the platitude, "Happy employees lead to happy customers." It's one of those sayings that just sounds right. Famous leaders have said it. Not-so-famous leaders have said it, too. It's all over the internet. But is it true? The things we believe have a mixed track record. Some things are supported by facts and analysis, while other beliefs are driven by anecdotal evidence.
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.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 24, 2018
This is guest post by Reuben Yonatan, CEO of GetVoIP. Most customers would rather solve problems themselves than go through the hassle of contacting customer service. According to Forrester Research , 91% of customers surveyed would use a knowledge base if it were customized to their needs. When self-service content is easy to discover and navigate, businesses not only see higher customer satisfaction rates , but they reduce support costs because customers can help themselves.
Customer Service Life
AUGUST 22, 2018
This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 17, 2018. Click here to read the original. When customers contact you with a problem, do you apologize or do you not? Let’s work through a couple scenarios. In the first scenario you work for a SAAS (Software as a Service) provider and a customer is calling in because their service is impaired.
360Connext
AUGUST 23, 2018
We toss the word empathy around these days, especially in customer experience circles. And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. The best customer-centric organizations leverage customer empathy to create a more positive journey for all customers.
Ansafone
AUGUST 23, 2018
Call Center Outsourcing Best Practices When considering call center outsourcing, high-performing call centers understand that being innovative [crosslink] and employing industry best practices are the best ways to create efficient, productive, happy workplaces. BPO providers who aim to deliver value-added services and develop long-term partnerships must integrate these four call center best practices into their … Call Center Outsourcing Best Practices Read More ».
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 23, 2018
Positive or negative, when a customer shares feedback with you, it’s a learning opportunity. You get the chance to see your business through their eyes, and that brief glimpse can change the course of the relationship completely. The direction it takes all depends on how you handle the situation. We put together this quick list of best practices for responding to customer feedback, so you’re always prepared to make the most of it—whether it’s glowing, scatching, or just so-so. 1.
Jive
AUGUST 23, 2018
Armed with a Hosted VoIP phone system, your business can access over 80, state-of-the-art features. That’s an overwhelming number! How will you know which Hosted VoIP features to use? To start, there are two important call management features your small business should consider leveraging with a Hosted VoIP phone system: ring groups and call queues.
kommunicate
AUGUST 21, 2018
There are many chatbot platforms with NLP, such as: Rasa: Open source conversational AI Dialogflow Bot Framework Wit.ai Amazon Lex – Build Conversation Bots We evaluated most noteworthy of bot platforms for building chatbots for customer support and service industry. Finally, Dialogflow and Rasa came on top in our priority list. This article covers the […].
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