Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Contact centers that embrace a strategic focus on the customer experience (CX) will follow a different evolution path than those who stay the course with a conventional approach to customer service. The more modern form of evolution begins with understanding what defines CX and adapting the contact center to support that.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction. According to ICMI , contact centers have a fairly high turnover rate of 33%.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week we feature an article by Eugene Aronsky who talks about good customer service versus bad customer service and how proper training and proper knowledge are key to answering any question that a customer may have. – Shep Hyken. Good customer service is essential for a successful business.”

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sometimes your customers have to wait. So, rather than ignoring this fact, I wanted to discuss how you can make waiting less terrible for your customers. But given that customers are waiting, what strategies can you deploy to make that waiting feel less terrible? Phone queues at a call center are different than a waiting lounge.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’ll be off to the races as customers flock to your business with money ready to be spent throughout the holiday season, but with this all-out blitz of consumer spending also comes the inevitable: angry customers. Everything you’ve done so far this year has prepared the customer service team for what’s on the horizon.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Jim Davies at Calabrio outlines 3 winning strategies for a seamless customer experience that are guaranteed to take you over the finish line in a record-setting way. Managing the hand-over from bot to agent is like taking part in a relay race. Dropping the Baton In this scenario, the chatbot runs a good leg.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Customer experience is more than a full-time job. Create or revise your customer experience mission statement. Deputize someone in each department as the customer advocate. It’s their job to truly represent the customer in every meeting. It’s their job to truly represent the customer in every meeting.

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Call center performance management has, for many brands, changed little over the years. Managers spend their days coaching and training their team on brand standards, best practices, and overcoming common customer issues. As a result, the common story of the contact center is one of burnout and attrition.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 10, 2020

Psychologists call this a Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), and it can wreak havoc on your customer-driven growth. . We explored FAEs in our latest podcast and the effect they can have on your Customer Experience outcome. The danger with FAE is it leads to a total misinterpretation of customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since my request, we were lucky enough to have a new one from Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of Customer Smarts , based in Sydney, Australia, and podcast host of “Customer Smart.” Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 17, 2015

Executives tell me: There is usually so much we COULD do with customer experience. We want to provide more, better, faster…but in order to do that for our customers we have to change entire legacy systems, hire totally new teams, and shift budget dollars from one place to another. Stop by your call center and listen in.

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SaleMove

JULY 2, 2021

When you’re a leader within a customer service operation, there’s a tendency to think about your people as a “collective.” Your front line team. When a customer contacts your company, they’re not interacting with your team, they are interacting with just one person. That’s only natural. How do you think that feels?

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fast-growing companies with ambitious customer service goals and limited resources may find call center staffing tricky — what’s the magic number of agents you need to meet demand and service customers effectively ? Erlang C Formula: Balance Customer Service Calls with Call Center Staffing Costs.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Omnichannel is a foundational piece when it comes to modernizing the contact center and adopting the technologies needed to meet today’s customer expectations. Omnichannel provides businesses with unprecedented capabilities to become truly customer-centric, finally putting agents on a level playing field with customers.

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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

How to Avoid the Severe Fate of Complacency – and Continuously Improve your Customer Experience. Bob Dylan’s protest anthem The Times They Are a Changing was a clarion call to action for the youth of the 60s that had profound effects on our culture and politics. But is there something more prophetic here? If It Ain’t Broke ….

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Stella Connect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You’ve dealt with it before and there’s no doubt you’ll face the same challenge again: call center turnover. In customer service, the revolving door of agents joining your team and exiting in a few months or only a year seems to be normal. Call center turnover occurs for several different reasons.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Having a medical call center will help your team answer your patient calls and messages with urgency. Our off-site Experts offer call screening, patient support, and the simplest way to boost patient satisfaction and staff productivity. . We need to manage an overwhelming amount of calls.

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Bold360

MARCH 26, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having massive impacts on how companies engage with their customers and employees. No matter how the crisis evolves, customers and employees still expect to receive a high level of service that’s responsive to their needs. Being relentlessly helpful earns customers for life.

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Dan Gingiss is an international keynote speaker, customer experience coach, podcaster, and the author of The Experience Maker: How To Create Remarkable Experiences That Your Customers Can’t Wait To Share. Companies across many industries are being faced with a new and daunting task: dealing with unruly and disrespectful customers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 20, 2015

Reviewing customers’ online experience is one of the most common ways we at 360Connext help our clients. It’s part of out trademarked process called Customer Experience Investigation, which covers everything. live support, customer service call centers). Here’s why: 1.

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Stella Connect

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Colin has written seven bestselling books on Customer experience is the co-host of the highly successful Intuitive Customer podcast. Over my career, I have run and visited many contact centers. Over my career, I have run and visited many contact centers. Explaining Empathy in Customer Service.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. It didn’t work. .

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The importance of customer service cannot be understated. A positive customer service experience makes 94% of consumers more likely to purchase. With a higher value placed on customer service comes higher expectations too. This is known as omnichannel customer engagement.

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Bold360

APRIL 20, 2020

Imagine what it’s like to be a customer right now. That’s why it’s critical to think about how you can add value to your customer. Find a way to reach out to a few of your customers and just have a conversation. The world is confusing. You’re scared. Then tell them a simple, elegant story.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Now more than ever, customers want fast and efficient service.

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Lithium

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Check out this audio version of our blog, also found on your favorite podcast platform! Losing and hiring frontline customer care agents can cost more than a few lost customers Can you afford to lose more? Regarding customer care, recent trends show that agents often find themselves in the latter half of the two options.

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Innovative CX

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’ve been involved in customer service for all my 40 years in business. For four decades, I’ve been trying to improve the customer experience for organizations in a variety of industries and diverse geographic locations. Years ago, we valued the face-to-face relationships that our front-line employees had with our customers.

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Uniphore

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And, with National Customer Service Week taking place between October 4-8, there’s no better time to reflect on customer service agents’ role in building a successful company and what constitutes good reward and recognition. Moreover, it’s crucial to recognize your contact center agents in the right way.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Organizations relying on call center support were forced to transition to digital channels during lockdowns.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 23, 2018

On the front lines of customer service are SeaWorld’s ambassadors, numbering 125 to 300, depending on the season, operating from the company’s single, central contact center in Orlando. It was losing calls and could not manage fluctuations in call volume.

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Bold360

APRIL 17, 2020

People are talking about how to engage customers in the current environment, and a big part of that dialog centers around digitization. How can you get closer than ever to your customer through digital engagement? Cultural hurdles to embracing digital customer service. How we engage with consumers is changing.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry.

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Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Call Experts, we invest in training. In our fast-paced ever-changing world, a call center needs to keep pace or they will be at risk of getting left behind. At roughly 45 days of employment, we begin the process of up-training our agents to handle calls and situations that are more complex. An overview of our program.

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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

How to Avoid the Severe Fate of Complacency – and Continuously Improve your Customer Experience. Bob Dylan’s protest anthem The Times They Are a Changing was a clarion call to action for the youth of the 60s that had profound effects on our culture and politics. But is there something more prophetic here? If It Ain’t Broke ….

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. So how can you balance the need for operational efficiency with meeting customer expectations? Many call center leaders view it as the most important KPI to track.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For the private sector, customer service has served as the cornerstone of a well thought out marketing strategy. Businesses make investments to improve all touch points across the customer journey to ensure that each one of those customers has an exceptional experience when it comes to engaging with the brand.

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Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Melissa opened her consulting practice in 1983 after a post-college customer-service near-death-experience as toy demonstrator at Sears during Christmas. She recovered later having agent and management roles in contact centers. She loves to blog about #custserv #cctr and #cx. Customer Service > Customer Experience.

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