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3 Surprising Ways to Motivate Call Center Employees

Jive

Motivating employees is hard enough. Motivating call center employees? That’s even harder. Imagine a team of employees that deals with clients day in and day out. They typically work demanding hours and assist disgruntled customers. Agents are constantly on their toes. They have to know their product or service inside and out to intelligently and thoughtfully answer any questions customers have.

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4 Guidelines for Switching Channels Without Aggravating Customers

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on March 22, 2019. Click here to read the original. Image by Adriano Gadini from Pixabay. I recently contacted a company for customer service regarding a piece of software that was critical to me finishing a project. After sitting on hold on the phone for about five minutes I hung up and opted for live chat.

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6 Reasons Why Customer Support Is an Essential Part of Your Business

ProProfs Blog

It takes 12 positive interactions to make up for 1 negative interaction with a customer. The worst part is, 33% of customers don’t even return after 1 negative experience. They are now served by your competitor. In short, customer support makes all the difference. One interesting thing to understand about customer service is that there is no such thing as “good” customer service.

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Why Too Many Choices Can Be Killing Your Bottom Line

Beyond Philosophy

If you give people the option to shop somewhere that only had a few choices or another venue with a wide selection, people almost always go for the larger selection. However, sorting through options can feel overwhelming. Too many choices in your Customer Experience are a terrible thing. Of course, too little choice is not great either. We discussed the issues with too many options in a recent podcast and what you can do to make customer’s decisions easier in your Customer Experience.

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The 2023 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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Experiential Calluses Against Poor CX

ShepHyken

Last summer I played golf with a friend. At the end of the game, he had blisters. He didn’t play very often, and the golf clubs rubbed his skin raw. My hands were just fine. I’m fortunate to play several times a month and over time I’ve built up calluses that prevent those nasty blisters. It’s simple. The more a person plays, the thicker the calluses get, which immunizes people against blisters and pain.

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Ask the Expert: 6 Questions About AI in the Contact Center

Callminer

CallMiner's VP of AI Rick Britt and Senior Data Scientist Yang Liu answered questions from their user community on a variety of topics on artificial intelligence (AI) in the contact center.

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10 Things You Must Know to Establish and Preserve Your Customer Service Culture

Beyond Philosophy

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. We spoke with Marilyn Suttle, a conference speaker, and three-time best-selling author and coach, on a recent podcast.

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Amazing Business Radio: Sandy Rogers

ShepHyken

Lead with Loyalty with Guest Sandy Rogers. Enhancing the Customer Experience Through Emotional Engagement. Shep Hyken interviews Sandy Rogers. They discuss his new book, Leading Loyalty: Cracking the Code to Customer Devotion , and the importance of empathy, responsibility, and generosity in the customer experience. The Interview with Sandy Rogers: During Sandy’s tenure at Enterprise Rent-a-Car, the company focused on improving customer service to drive loyalty.

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Protecting Customer Data, Part 1: Balancing Customer Friction & Fraud Prevention

Contact Center Pipeline

Businesses are facing ever-increasing risks of fraud and cybercrime. Every day brings more reports of security breaches and compromised customer data. Cybercriminals are clever and quick to find new ways to steal customers’ and employees’ personally identifiable information, which can be used to commit fraudulent activities ranging from spamming to accessing online accounts to extortion. […].

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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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The Do’s and Don’ts of Customer Engagement Analytics from CCW

Callminer

Here are a few “do’s and don’ts” to consider from CCW interview when integrating a customer engagement analytics platform to improve your business strategy.

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Is Facial Recognition Creepy or Is It Just the Future?

Beyond Philosophy

Is Facial Recognition Creepy or Is It Just the Future? Technology can analyze people’s facial expressions and determine what emotion they feel. It’s called Facial Expression Analysis and it uses Facial Recognition technology. This technology presents the most authentic option for capturing data on customers’ emotions during your Customer Experience.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of April 15, 2019

ShepHyken

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. 6 Customer Service Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Sam Del Rowe. (destinationCRM.com) Though the two terms are often used interchangeably, customer service and customer experience are not the same thing, Forrester Research asserts in a new report.

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It’s Time to Rethink Your Approach to Supporting Customer Service Agents

Contact Center Pipeline

Building powerful and engaging customer experiences through the contact center requires several important ingredients—just-in-time and in-context analytics, artificial intelligence for self-service and after-contact work, seamless omnichannel options for customers, and fair, accurate scheduling. But one of the most critical components are the contact center agents themselves.

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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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Women Leadership & Customer Experience

Call Center Weekly

By Stacy Sherman (MBA, CX Certified) ? This article originally appeared on Doing CX Right There’s an increasing amount of conversations about Women and Leadership, and I love it! I believe that the next generation, including my own daughter, will have more opportunities to share their voice, without judgments, and pursue jobs that had been traditionally filled by men.

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Call Center Culture of Excellence – How to Build it

TechSee

Many of us have worked in contact centers. It’s never been a particularly glamorous or well-paid job. And there’s now a serious talent shortage. Employers around the globe are facing the most severe recruitment crisis in 12 years, according to the latest Talent Shortage Survey , with 40% of companies surveyed reporting difficulties filling roles. Contact center agents want to work for employers who help them to develop and grow their careers – and they’re not afraid to leave if they&

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Stop Trying To Replace Your Agents With Chatbots — No, Seriously!

Ian Jacobs

Customer service organizations have been looking for ways to cut costs for decades. Now that chatbot mania has taken over, many are jumping on the bandwagon and attempting to replace their human agents with chatbots. In theory, that makes sense – a chatbot costs less than a human over time, and most customer service organizations […].

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Voice of the Customer Survey: We Need Your Insights

Contact Center Pipeline

We need your help to better understand existing processes for gathering, processing and analyzing information about the customer experience. Give us your thoughts in this short Voice of the Customer survey. Results will appear in a future issue of Contact Center Pipeline. All participants who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for […].

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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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New and Improved Lumoa - Here are the new features

Lumoa

New features are available in Lumoa. The update includes new and improved features such as; a new and fresh dashboard design, new timeline chart and new and easier time range selectors.

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5 Tips to Help You Host the Perfect Event

ProProfs Blog

Today’s generation looks forward to two things during the week: Spending the weekend in bed doing absolutely nothing or celebrating the weekend doing something they like. Millennials love events; I love events; more importantly, companies should also love events. In an age where everybody is focused on the online marketing experience, meeting with people in-person is a refreshing experience and an excellent channel to build lasting relationships.

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What are the top ways we should use speech analytics to get the maximum benefits?

DMG Consulting

Question: We are just getting started with speech analytics. Aside from the tactical uses, what are the top ways we should use this solution to get the maximum benefits? Answer: Enterprise executives who are not thinking more broadly about the uses of solutions like speech analytics are leaving cost savings and valuable benefits on the table. Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), capturing the voice of the customer, compliance management, and sharing/leveraging results from interaction (sp

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How to Make Your Contact Center Digital Transformation a Success

Contact Center Pipeline

I recently had a conversation with Richard Antosik, Vice President, Digital Operations (Client Services) at Laurentian Bank regarding their contact center’s recent digital transformation. The following are the questions and answers regarding their lessons learned. MIKE AOKI: What was your past experience regarding contact center digital transformations?

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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7 Important Questions to Ask Customers for a Better Customer Experience

GetFeedback

Providing a solid customer experience (CX) can be incredibly hard for many companies. In an increasingly competitive global market, the experience that you provide to your customers is often the only thing that sets you apart from your competitors. Getting it just right is all about asking the right customer experience questions. You need to get to know your target audience by listening to what they have to say and then taking what you learn and putting those insights into action to make changes

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How to Boost the Customer Lifetime Value of Your Promising Startup?

ProProfs Blog

Young startups obsessively focus always on increasing the number of customers. Get more customers, we need more sales, connect with more leads, these phrases tend to be the most commonly spoken phrases during team meetings. Companies get so caught up with trying to acquire new customers that they tend to forget all about the existing customers. An old belief that exists among customer support circles is that it’s easier to retain existing customers than to acquire new ones.

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Calling all Call Centers: Confessions of a Tech Support Agent

Fonolo

It’s our turn. If you’ve had your eyes on the Fonolo blog for the past nine years, you know that in that time we have dedicated ourselves to bringing you news and views of all kinds that impact the customer service and contact center spaces. Sometimes, though, we have to turn the microphone towards ourselves and give voice to our own customer service happenings and the hard-working customer support contingent that buoys our own brand.

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Fall in Love With Your Customer’s Pain Points - Not With Your Solutions

McorpCX

It’s human nature to fall in love with your solutions. it’s also one a common pitfall for business leaders, entrepreneurs and those responsible for improving customer experiences.

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The Truth About Customer Journey Mapping

Speaker: Dave Seaton, CEO of Seaton CX

Is Customer Journey Mapping a tired fad from 2013? Or a critical tool for sparking customer-centric change? 💥 The answer lies not in the map itself, but in the mapping process. When crafted with precision and insight, journey maps emerge as powerful catalysts, transforming customer experiences and steering businesses towards profitable growth.

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4 Reasons Your Customers Won’t Reach Out to Customer Service

GetFeedback

To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. But does this work well? Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. And they don’t always. In this article, we’ll discuss the key four reasons why some customers prefer to suffer silently and then leave you for your competitors.

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Millennial Myths & The Call Center

Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor. I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures.

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ACE 2019: Speak Up!

Aspect

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty excited about ACE 2019 , July 29 – August 1. Those four days will be packed full of exclusive insights, high-energy networking opportunities and interactive product sessions. Attendees will come away with ideas for how to not only meet their growing customer and workforce needs, but also exceed them. We’re working on delivering helpful, practical, real-world information.