Callminer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Call center QA and monitoring teams are responsible for ensuring the quality of interactions between call center representatives and consumers. It goes without saying that this is an incredibly complex undertaking, particularly in large organizations with thousands of call center agents having many thousands of interactions with consumers every day. The problems that plague the […].

Call Center 536

Call Center Best practices 536

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Doug Bell Discusses Improving the Customer Experience. Would you like every employee to know how they fit into your company’s customer experience? Shep Hyken interviews Doug Bell, founder of The Experience Manager , a system that helps manage and unify the entire customer experience.

Journey mapping 517

Journey mapping Management Consulting Consulting 517

Contact Center Pipeline

DECEMBER 13, 2017

What does it take to deliver standout customer service? It’s a question on the minds of many business leaders since customer experience trumps price as the number one competitive differentiator in today’s economy.

Contact Center 482

Contact Center Call Center Customer Experience Customer Service 482

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

. The Three Trends You Can’t Ignore in CX Today. As a Customer Experience professional, understanding three trends today is imperative. Without accepting these tenets, you are thwarting your success before you even begin.

Customer Experience 626

Customer Experience Customer emotions Consulting Consulting 626

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Banking

Myra Golden Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Questions are a double-edged sword for customer service professionals. You have to ask questions to get to the root of the problem, log issues, and in general, to help customers. But, often a series of questions can sound like an interview.

Call Center 416

Call Center Contact Center Customer Service Management 416

Taylor Reach Group

JULY 17, 2017

By: JD Fairweather. How pervasive is the impending impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the customer experience (CX)? Well, to join a discussion on the topic, I’d be willing to traverse a room full of telemarketers pitching the latest timeshare deals in Orlando.

Customer Experience 299

Customer Experience Telemarketing Entertainment Big data 299

360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I’m often asked how or where a company should start improving CX. While the answer may be a little different for everyone, it’s critical to start out right! However, very few leaders take a realistic approach.

Customer centricity 290

Customer centricity Metrics Consulting Consulting 290

Bill Quiseng

JULY 18, 2017

I had the great opportunity to interview Blake Morgan , customer experience futurist about her new book, More is More: How the Best Companies Go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks Off Customer Experiences.

Customer Experience 283

Customer Experience Wireless Airlines Healthcare 283

Call Center Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

By Erica Mancuso Treating others as you would want to be treated is a practice of empathy. The golden rule is such a simple, timeless principle, and yet I’m constantly amazed at how little it’s practiced any more.

Customer Service 387

Customer Service Airlines Morale Travel 387

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Customer Support

Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

…here’s 7 ways to get you started This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You still haven’t learned how to speak up, huh? Maybe you’re just afraid of confrontation? I know, you don’t want to offend anyone, right?

Customer Service 376

Customer Service Personalization Customer Experience 376

Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most call centers struggle with efficiency at one time or another. And because efficiency is directly tied to minimizing overhead costs in the call center, it’s a prominent challenge.

Call Center 349

Call Center Contact Center Best practices Real estate 349

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This week we feature an article by Lindsay Tjepkema who writes about how artificial intelligence marketing (AIM) is becoming more important to our success in engaging with customers.

Marketing 501

Marketing Personalization Advertising Big data 501

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

“They are just temps,” said one contact center manager describing his seasonal agents. They will be gone in a couple of months!” That condescending attitude was reflected in the seasonal team’s environment. They were crammed into an abandoned conference room filled with computers, phones and wires.

Management 426

Management Contact Center Call Center 426

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Education

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 22, 2017

It is critical to consider the “anatomy” of an interaction in a Customer Experience. The sheer number of things that occur in an interaction at the same time can seem astonishing.

Consulting 415

Consulting Consulting Customer Experience 415

Myra Golden Media

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Today I delivered a customer service workshop in Chicago. When we broke for lunch, three of the attendees invited me to a vegan bistro. Of course, I was thrilled to join them! Over lunch, one of the ladies told me, “I almost never take my vacation time.

Banking 363

Banking Accountability Personalization Customer Service 363

Peter Lavers

JUNE 26, 2017

When you think of your ideal customer experience, does it include someone telling you, “no,” or “I can’t”? Companies need to train their staff to provide alternative solutions and avoid the easy “no” response in order to create a better customer experience.

Customer Experience 265

Customer Experience Customer centricity Coaching Self service 265

Call Center Coach

APRIL 27, 2017

Gamification in customer experience has been used for several years. The concept of using game mechanics to attract and retain customers in the consumer space is commonplace and many tools have been developed.

Gamification 249

Gamification Call Center Morale Coaching 249

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Education

Provide Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

5 Reasons Unhappy Customers Don’t Complain. The times when customer complaints were seen as a distraction that should be eliminated are over. Most businesses today understand that complaints are a valuable source of information.

Customer Support 192

Customer Support Feedback Customer Experience 192

The Upsell

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Relationships: Personal, business and customer are all the same. Sure the intent is different but when it comes down to how we make those connect, it doesn’t really matter the situation, because people are people.

Personalization 186

Personalization Upselling 186

Call Center Weekly

DECEMBER 14, 2017

By Rinku Basu Over the past few years, customer services have been taken to astonishingly new heights. Meeting expectation’ is no good anymore, surpassing expectation is the only modus operandi for existence.

Technology 340

Technology Customer Service Advertising Best practices 340

Kristina Evey

DECEMBER 5, 2017

LISTEN to your Customers. Listening. We all know how to do it… but few know how to do it well … and it could be driving your customers away if you don’t do it well. Listen well and you’ll increase sales and customer loyalty.

Customer Experience 183

Customer Experience Feedback Customer retention Sales 183

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Contact Center

Callminer

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Call Center 291

Call Center Technology Best practices Analytics 291

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s almost a given that every company has some form of a customer service department. Even the smallest companies – with just one solo entrepreneur – will act as if they have a customer service department. Why do people reach out to the customer service department?

Customer Service 477

Customer Service Customer Care Feedback Customer Support 477

Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I love movies. So, I was thrilled to win movie tickets as part of a contact center sales campaign back when I was an agent. However, the coworker sitting next to me hated movies and was not motivated at all by this contest. Everyone is different. What motivates one person may demotivate another.

Morale 411

Morale Employee engagement Sales Personalization 411

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 28, 2017

Back in April 1985, the Coca-Cola Company introduced a product that became one of the biggest flops in modern history. New Coke” had a sweeter taste that was so widely reviled that Coke brought back its old formula less than three months later.

Customer centricity 412

Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Technology 412

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Customer Experience

Myra Golden Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When I hear an excellent, and genuine, expression of empathy from a company, I make a note of it. I’ll tell Siri to capture what I heard, or I’ll just type it out. I save ridiculously good empathy statements so that I can share them with my clients.

Customer Service 298

Customer Service Customer Experience 298

Peter Lavers

JULY 17, 2017

This blog coincides with the 10 th anniversary of the first signs of the Credit Crunch, which has impacted and continues to affect all our lives.

Management 214

Management Customer Experience Automotive Customer centricity 214

Call Center Coach

JUNE 13, 2017

It’s simple. Your agents need help with a customer, all they have to do is raise their hand. But how dumb is that in today’s omnichannel and remote agent world? Okay, just raise a flag then. That’s not much smarter. How dumb is it for your supervisors to support agents? Click to Tweet.

Coaching 245

Coaching Contact Center Call Center Technology 245