The Call Center School

JULY 1, 2019

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C3Centricity

JULY 1, 2019

One of the best ways to a deeper understanding of your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately too often an under-utilised tool of marketers. It is, therefore, understandable that so many companies run to conduct market research, usually a qualitative study, as a first step to improved customer understanding.

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HelpCrunch

JULY 2, 2019

Check out our 5 recommendations on how to build a true customer-driven marketing strategy. The post 5 steps to creating a customer-driven marketing strategy appeared first on HelpCrunch blog.

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ShepHyken

JULY 3, 2019

Just last week I wrote about the concept of predictive customer support. Now, we take a slightly different angle with the concept of proactive customer support. The concept is simple. The company reaches out to the customer before the customer has a chance to reach out to the company. More often than not, the customer may not even know they have a problem.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 2, 2019

For all of my onsite customer service workshops and keynotes, I arrive at least 45 minutes before we start so I can meet and talk to the people who’ll be spending several hours with me. Now I didn’t always do this. In the past, I’d hide out in the back of the room, mentally preparing and praying, and only go up after I was introduced.

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Callminer

JULY 1, 2019

Does your company’s CX management program stack up? These 25 expert tips will help you transform your customer experience and boost customer loyalty.

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ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2019

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. Is Customer Service The Same As Customer Experience? I Debate Myself by Steve Olenski. (Media Post) Like many others, I’m sure, I talk to myself quite frequently.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 2, 2019

Imagine your next phone call is from an angry, irate customer, and you’ve only got a few seconds to gain control. Are you 100% confident you can handle it? If not, I’ve got the perfect program for you. Tae my 3 0-minute De-escalation Online Training , and you’ll be able to: Handle Any Difficult Customer. I promise, after just 30-minutes with me in this special “3-Step De-escalation Method” on-demand workshop, you will be inspired and thrilled with how much more productive you can be at getting a

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 2, 2019

When the team is not performing at expected levels, the troops are gathered together, a rallying speech is given by the supervisor, and after cheerful, optimistic group chatter, everyone breaks and heads back to their assignments. Do those types of actions get enough traction to change the direction of your center’s performance? For some reason, […].

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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

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TechSee

JULY 2, 2019

Customer service calls are usually pretty routine: customers can’t log in, something isn’t working, they need help setting up a device, or they need clarification on a bill. But sometimes, in the midst of the mundane, comes the mind-boggling: crazy, funny or hair-raising B2C customer service success stories that make your day and inspire you to deliver ever-better service.

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ShepHyken

JULY 2, 2019

Punk CX with Adrian Swinscoe. Painting Outside the Lines of Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Swinscoe. They discuss his new book, Punk CX , and talk about how to apply punk sensibility to the customer service world. The Interview with Adrian Swinscoe: The speed of change is unceasingly fast, but true progress can be impeded by too much to quickly.

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Myra Golden Media

JULY 1, 2019

A lot of people are curious about self-service options in public libraries and in retail, but many customers will avoid trying self-service if it seems complicated. No one wants to add more stress to their lives, so if it looks hard, they’ll skip it, and work with a real person instead. Here are 6 keys to guiding you through exactly how to teach first-time users to master self-service in your library branch or retail store. 1.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 3, 2019

Welcome to summertime and our July issue! Soon we will celebrate one of America’s most cherished holidays, the Fourth of July, or Independence Day, as it’s more formally known. Many of us will gather with family and friends for a backyard barbecue to celebrate with pork and explosives. Imagine that history lesson 100 years from […].

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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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Lumoa

JULY 2, 2019

Actionable insights are data sets that prescribe any direct, meaningful actions you can take based on the analysis of raw data.

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ProProfs Blog

JULY 3, 2019

Customer expectations are on the rise. Now, how updated are you in meeting their expectations at all times? No doubt, instant help is their top priority, and live chat is the solution. Except, it’s just the first step. Your customer support operators need to know how to chat with customers online to keep them hooked with your brand. In this post, we aim to cover nine amazing online chat tips to help your business reduce 67% of customer churn and increase acquisition. 9 Amazing Tips on How to Cha

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Fonolo

JULY 2, 2019

Last week, Fonolo hosted an insightful live discussion on the current state of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The expert panel discussed how NLP relates to the general field of AI, the pros and cons of different approaches to NLP, and more. To save you some time, we’ve extracted video snippets showcasing highlights from the discussion. First, let’s take a quick look at the panel of speakers: Frank Schneider, Tobias Goebel , and Shai Berger.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 4, 2019

We hope that you enjoy your Independence Day celebration—and have a happy and safe 4th of July!

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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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Nexmo

JULY 4, 2019

Have you ever dialed a company and been prompted to follow along with menu prompts? If you have then you have interacted with an Interactive Voice Response (IVR). The IVR acts on input provided by the caller, usually in the form of numeric keypad choices. You can build your own IVR using Ruby on Rails and the Nexmo Voice API. In this walkthrough, we will build a small Rails application that will host a simple IVR service.

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teleopti

JULY 1, 2019

What is contributing to the increase in handle time? Why are customer satisfaction scores continuing to decline? If you have been in a situation where you hear these questions, perhaps from your manager or a client, then you know the value of solid reporting and analytics. More than likely, in addition to these questions, you might be asked to present a summary on what is driving the change in behavior along with an action plan.

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Fonolo

JULY 4, 2019

Good training teaches employees in the customer service realm how to handle complex customer issues in the most efficient and customer-friendly way possible. This is important, as customer service is the touchstone for all kinds of customer-facing interactions. In training CS representatives, it’s crucial to help them understand a) what they are doing; and b) why they doing the job.

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C3Centricity

JULY 3, 2019

Which did you answer subconsciously when you read the title? Do you consider your packaging to be a part of the product, protecting its contents and framing its on-shelf life? Or do you consider it to be an integral part of your connection with your customers at an important moment of truth, that of purchase and usage? If you answered both, then I believe that you are making maximum use of your packaging or at least you recognise its potential for communication.

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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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Nexmo

JULY 4, 2019

Have you ever dialed a company and been prompted to follow along with menu prompts? If you have then you have interacted with an Interactive Voice Response (IVR). The IVR acts on input provided by the caller, usually in the form of numeric keypad choices. You can build your own IVR using Ruby on Rails and the Nexmo Voice API. In this walkthrough, we will build a small Rails application that will host a simple IVR service.

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Nicereply

JULY 2, 2019

Just like Jon Snow before an attack on Winterfell, you need to prepare for your seasonal rush so you can thrive instead of just survive the winter. And yes, the battle for outstanding customer service is often just like the stories in Game of Thrones. This is because customer support tickets can increase by 42% for retailers during this time of year, putting a massive strain on your support team.

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Customer Experience Matters

JULY 2, 2019

Given the recent closing of Temkin Group, it seems like a good time to reflect on what I’ve learned over the last decade or so of building a successful business, creating a world-wide association, and nurturing the CX movement. Looking back, here are six principals that have helped me succeed: Actively Simplify. When faced with new situations, it often seems easiest to add layers of rules or additional concepts.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 1, 2019

The Ideal Contact Center Solution. 6/3/2019. By Donna Fluss. I often think about what it would take to make the perfect contact center infrastructure solution, ACD, dialer, IVR/IVA, CTI, universal queue, etc. Obviously, perfect is in the eyes of the beholder, but there has to be a way of creating a contact center solution that is omni-channel, easy to provision, set up, install, implement and operate.

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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.

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Etech GS

JULY 3, 2019

What Is Employee Engagement? Employee engagement measures the passion and commitment of employees to deliver their best efforts and create solutions that will benefit them, the customer and the company. Engaged employees bring their best every day and are fully committed to supporting the vision, mission, and goals of the organization. What Employee Engagement Is Not?

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Jive

JULY 2, 2019

It’s almost surprising how instant messaging has managed to ingrain itself as an inherent part of office culture today. Instead of walking over to a colleague’s desk, you instead shoot a quick IM. If you want a real-time response, you send an IM instead of an email. If you want to make idle chit-chat as you go about your daily tasks, you don’t run to the water cooler anymore – you send an IM. .

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SharpenCX

JULY 2, 2019

“Alexa, order more laundry detergent please.” That’s all it takes to cross something off my to-do list now. And last week, I sent a couple of emails about a pair of shoes that were out of stock, and within a. Read More. The post Start to Wow your Customers with your Service: 5 Ways Adding a Digital Customer Journey Exceeds Expectations of the Modern Customer appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software.

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