Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 18, 2024

So, today we are going to look at how you can strike a balance between personalizing your interactions and offerings for customers without freaking them out. So, today we are going to look at how you can strike a balance between personalizing your interactions and offerings for customers without freaking them out.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Empower your people. In particular, call centers are bugging me. For example, when I hear, “We’re experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of calls at the moment, but your call is very important to us,” I feel frustrated. Be fast, stupid. Embrace customer complaints.

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CCNG

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I’m sure you’ve already heard…but there is a wonderful game called pickleball that is taking over the United States. It’s not near as embarrassing now-a-days telling your buddies you are off to play pickleball, what with Tom Brady, Kim Clijsters, Mark Cuban and Lebron James all owning Major League Pickleball teams.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Suppose you are at an airport, the airline cancels your flight, and you sit in a call center queue. Therefore, it’s up to organizations to break out of the “contact us” mindset that asks customers to press one for this and two for that to get us there. Where’s that order I placed two days ago?”

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Airlines Self service Call Center Personalization 221

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Let’s use the TV as an example. Call me impatient – because I am. Consider that when you order an item from Amazon, you are immediately sent confirmation that your order has been placed. . Consider that when you order an item from Amazon, you are immediately sent confirmation that your order has been placed. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2020

The scientific name for it is Escalation of Commitment, but it is also the basis of many sales techniques, and it is an excellent way to get your customers to say yes. . I get more than $1 you give me, though; I get you used to the idea of giving me money when I ask for it. He called this the “Foot-in-the-door” method.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle! Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle!” Brands are a tactic we use, which is different than strategy.

Banking 221

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 27, 2021

Hence, customer satisfaction has become a very important factor for the sustainability of a business. It is very tough to find out what customers expect from a business these days. Considering all these pointers, let us find out how customer experience determines the lifeline of a business. .

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Callminer

OCTOBER 11, 2018

From essentials like average handle time to broader metrics such as call center service levels , there are dozens of metrics that call center leaders and QA teams must stay on top of, and they all provide visibility into some aspect of performance. Kaye Chapman @kayejchapman.

Call Center 561

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You call the customer service hotline. A pleasant customer support agent picks up the phone and enthusiastically greets you, ready to help resolve your problem or answer your question. The hold time consists of music interrupted by the occasional recording that claims, “Your call is very important to us.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2023

Think back to your latest amazing customer service experience. Most said they had to wait 30 minutes or longer for an agent when placing a customer service call. Most said they had to wait 30 minutes or longer for an agent when placing a customer service call. Good customer service is something we cherish. Toister has a theory.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 21, 2021

and a pioneer of using facial coding in business to capture and quantify consumer responses. They discuss how to use technology and staff the customer service department to be effective throughout the entire customer journey. Customers want to feel like they are moving towards progress when they are calling about a problem.

Advertising 168

Advertising Chatbots Technology Customer Service 168

The Northridge Group

APRIL 15, 2024

In Part 2 of this series, let us look at how implementing AI in your business processes can be a true benefit to your people and a cost reduction in overhead when done properly. So, the impact that AI may have on the people and the change they will face is important.

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Fonolo

JULY 5, 2023

In the age of social media backlash and call-out culture, how your customers feel about your brand is key to your success. Although it’s almost impossible to completely control what people think about your organization, improving customer opinions of your brand is very possible.

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Steve DiGioia

MAY 2, 2022

There are millions of us. I used to take the train from my home in Brooklyn, NY to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan each month to watch the matches in person. So, what can pro wrestling teach us about customer service? 5 Things Pro Wrestling Teach Us About Customer Service. Well, your customers have needs too.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

Digging into why customers leave early and coming up with smart plans to keep them can really turn your customer retention numbers around. Onboarding Excellence The initial interaction between your brand and new customers sets the tone for the relationship. They let us understand and act on the reasons behind early churn.

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VirtualPBX

JANUARY 23, 2024

Guest Blog If you deal with large volumes of data – like call centers tend to – you may find yourself a target of cyber criminals and your cybersecurity may be at risk. We’ll take a look at seven of the main ways to keep them up-to-date, but first, let’s consider what exactly cybersecurity in a call center involves.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Call center training has always been one of the key pillars of running a successful call center. As the industry advances, so do the methods we use to ensure our workforce is performing at its best. A strong call center training program should not just be part of your onboarding process.

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Call Center Contact Center Coaching Gamification 141

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 6, 2024

In this post, we demonstrate how to efficiently fine-tune a state-of-the-art protein language model (pLM) to predict protein subcellular localization using Amazon SageMaker. Proteins are the molecular machines of the body, responsible for everything from moving your muscles to responding to infections. COVID-19 Spikevax Moderna $21.8

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ClearAction

APRIL 16, 2024

And it should be the basis for how your business is run. Therefore, Voice of Customer should be very good at driving changes to the business, accordingly. However, only a third of CX managers say their Voice of Customer is “good” or “very good” at making changes to the business. Use those phrases.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This metric is universally understood across the industry, and clearly conveys how quickly customer calls are answered by support agents. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers. Call center service levels are, broadly speaking, a commitment to a particular average speed of answer, or ASA.

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JustCall

APRIL 23, 2024

Thinking of bringing in a predictive dialer for your business? We’ll also walk you through the most important features you should look for in a predictive dialer from a sales, support, and managerial standpoint. Adversus : This is another top-rated predictive dialer with very useful sales and support enablement features.

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delighted

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even if you’re just starting your customer experience (CX) management program, you’ve probably heard of Net Promoter Score (NPS): it’s one of the most popular customer experience metrics to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. Sending a successful NPS email survey is easy when you have the right tools and feedback strategies in mind.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2023

But with great power comes great responsibility – if you’re going to get the results you need to make critical business decisions, it’s important that your survey design is done well! Designing surveys is an important part of market research, and it requires a great deal of thought and care.

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JustCall

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Need a solid sales dialer for cold calling and converting leads? Orum’s dialer is also great for automatically calling leads but JustCall offers better AI-driven features such as predictive dialing and smart call distribution that can help you save your sales team or agents more time. Look no further.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Have you ever worked in a call center? Statistics show that 74% of workers at call centers are likely to experience burnout. In this article, let us look at three common factors behind client discontent. Hopefully, understanding this subject will give us some idea about what steps to take.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Studies have proven that tone of voice in customer service is even more important to a successful interaction than the specific words that are being said, and that an agent’s energy will translate to their customer even without face-to-face interaction. The term is used to describe how a voice literally sounds while speaking.

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Taylor Reach Group

MAY 19, 2021

It very much depends on the situation and what we are trying to achieve. As an example, we all know how important customer service and customer experience is and for those situations I would say yes, just being ‘Good’ is not good enough as customers expect more and more. By Turaj Seyrafiaan. There is a classic quote by John D.

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A customer contacts us with an apparent product issue. The problem is that we listen to one call at a time or read one conversation at a time. An analyst reviews trends using speech or text analytics software discovering many support tickets about the same issue. Is this a one-off or a system-wide problem?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The great migration of contact centers transitioning from on-site to hybrid work environments isn’t slowing down–and an air-tight call center security strategy has never mattered more. Keeping your company’s data secure is essential, but it can seem like an overwhelming task. It won't cost you a penny, we promise.).

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Global Response

JUNE 20, 2023

But call centers? Its numerous call centers already serve businesses across the Middle East, Europe and the US. Besides that, the strong focus on technology and innovation lend Tunisia’s call centers a strong infrastructure and innovative culture to develop better customer experience strategies. So how do you know?

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Revation Systems

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Technology is great when it works, but there’s always a point when it no longer meets your goals of where you want to get to. When I asked what she was using, Candace replied, “Mitel which was very fidgety. With technology growing, members don’t just want to call in anymore.

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First call resolution Metrics Technology Contact Center 62

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Using the S.M.A.R.T strategy in goal-setting is key: it provides direction and helps focus your team’s time and energy. In this blog, we’ll discuss how to create goals that will take your call center to the next level. 7 Things Great Call Center Managers Do Every Day Why Do My Contact Center Agents Need Goals?

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Quality Contact Solutions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The objective could be very focused, such as trying to figure out why the contacts per hour (CPH) is low, for example. The objective could be very focused, such as trying to figure out why the contacts per hour (CPH) is low, for example. Ask managers and supervisors to provide scripts, training material, and several recorded calls.

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Telemarketing Wireless Morale Scripts 98

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This year, the holidays are going to look very different from the past. With change and uncertainty looming thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can count on one thing for sure — that your customers will be leaning heavily on your customer support team. Look at your historical data. Review your IVR system.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2018

In contemporary times, the deafening sounds of the outside world via the news, social media, the subway, the radio, the street, and even the phone lines can distract us from our long-term professional and personal goals. Turn your podcast down, and turn this article up to eleven. We call it the ‘golden rule’ of customer service.

Contact Center 271

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TeleDirect

JULY 1, 2021

Healthcare, at the very core, is a continuing relationship between patient and care provider. Call centers help facilitate important communication, confirm appointments, and optimize follow up communication. Why is a patient call center crucial for general patient follow up communication and general patient management?

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