7 Tips for Keeping Agents Happy
Callminer
APRIL 23, 2018
No matter what industry you serve, one thing is certain; call centers can’t deliver a positive customer experience without the right agents in place.
Callminer
APRIL 23, 2018
No matter what industry you serve, one thing is certain; call centers can’t deliver a positive customer experience without the right agents in place.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 24, 2018
Today is a big day for our customers. We’re releasing the biggest ever update to our Messenger. We’ve completely rethought how a messenger designed for business should work. And it goes way beyond chat. With over 500 million conversations every month, we’ve long known that our Messenger provides a personal, mutually beneficial experience for both our customers and their customers.
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Customer Service Life
APRIL 23, 2018
Guilty as charged. I’m guilty of it myself. While I love working in customer service, I admit, I’ve done it. Done what, you ask? I’ve worn the honorable badge of hours worked. . I was caught up in the swirl of “the more I work, the more worthy I am” The more valuable I am. The more people I can help. The more I can lead my team.
Fonolo
APRIL 24, 2018
It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. A new pricing model, based on pure consumption, seems to be emerging. A new privacy regulation (GDPR) has multiple impacts on call centers that operate in, or provide service to, Europe.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom
Callminer
APRIL 26, 2018
Every year post-holiday analysis shows there are some significant challenges at play in the retail sector and it will most likely continue in the same vein with cost pressures intensifying.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 23, 2018
When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. It is at this point that companies need to focus on bringing their privacy ecosystem up to the required standards.
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Fonolo
APRIL 26, 2018
I read countless articles on how to reduce stress in the call center and often wonder, “why is the contact center environment so traumatic?” Well, there are a few reasons for this. The first is quite obvious: Most call center horror stories feature an angry customer, venting their frustration about a faulty product or terrible service. Dealing with angry customers is difficult!
Myra Golden Media
APRIL 26, 2018
Last week I facilitated a team building workshop for one of my favorite clients. Typically, I only deliver training on customer service, but my client had a special request. My client explained that “We need to work together, make decisions together, and communicate according to the styles of each person. In essence, we need to build a strong cohesive team.”.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 25, 2018
Yesterday marked one of our biggest releases yet – our all new messenger. One of the most exciting concepts is the customizable home screen, the start screen you see when you open the Intercom Messenger on an app or website. Think of it as the perfect front desk for your company. Using apps, you can create tailored experiences for leads and customers when they open the Messenger.
Customer Service Life
APRIL 27, 2018
This article was first published on the FCR blog on April 6, 2018. Click here to read the original. As contact center leaders we’re often lightning rods for the latest, greatest technology on the market. While it’s fun fun to see what’s new, it can be a challenge to find the time in our busy schedules to attend a lot of demos. Good news! Our Emerging Technologies Team at FCR is constantly looking for the latest in technology that can benefit our teams, and it’s our pleasure to share some of the
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker
Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.
Customer Bliss
APRIL 27, 2018
Spring is finally here, and you know what that means… spring cleaning! Just like that full-to-the-brim closet you’ve been ignoring, the customer listening data you’ve collected can pile up until it’s more a nuisance than it is informative. By this point, you have no idea what it really contains. Let’s talk about de-cluttering your customer listening!
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 27, 2018
Colin Shaw and Professor Ryan Hamilton discuss how customers make complex decisions, even when they don’t really understand what they are doing or how they can make a decision. Find out what you can do to understand this and what you can do to design a great customer experience. The post How Do Customers Make Complex Decisions? appeared first on.
Heart of the Customer
APRIL 25, 2018
Are you going to the CXPA’s Insight Exchange? Along with the incomparable Nancy Porte, I’ll be co-hosting the event. Plans are coming along – you can see the agenda here. I’ll also be leading a Show and Tell table with journey mapping best practices on Wednesday. Look for me at the “We’ve Arrived” welcome mixer. […]. The post Join Jim at the CXPA’s Insight Exchange appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Taylor Reach Group
APRIL 25, 2018
At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. Whether you’re interested in speaking, exhibiting or simply attending these events, we wanted to keep everybody informed on the upcoming Contact Center and CX Events. With that, here are some of the events taking place in May 2018 (in chronological order) with direct links to each event: CX 18 - May 1-4, Nashville, TN.
Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Fonolo
APRIL 25, 2018
They say you can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. And, like anything in life, work is made so much better when you have a great friend with you. In fact, it turns out that having a friend at work isn’t just great for your personal and psychological well-being, it’s actually great for business as well. Whether a department or company is looking to maintain high morale and employee retention, or looking for creative ideas to increase customer satisfaction, a corporate culture
ProProfs
APRIL 24, 2018
A large number of organizations today are implementing learning and development (L&D) plans for their teams to ensure their learning curve never ceases. Implementing a rock-solid learning and development strategy can help employees learn new skills in almost every conceivable vertical; whether it’s software development, change management or simply soft skills. “ As much as ERP is critical to a manufacturing supply chain environment, e-learning is critical in a knowledge dependent supply chai
Heart of the Customer
APRIL 25, 2018
Journey mapping is powerful. A clear visualization of your customer’s journey helps rally the company to support a new vision of your customers’ challenges, and how you can make it easier to be your customer. But why should customers get all the love? If it’s such a powerful tool, shouldn’t we find other uses for […]. The post Three Tips for Employee Journey Mapping appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
UJET
APRIL 26, 2018
Unplanned outages, hidden fees, and painful UX—just a few things that your contact center solution provider probably forgot to mention before you signed on the dotted line.
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Fonolo
APRIL 24, 2018
It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. A new pricing model, based on pure consumption, seems to be emerging. A new privacy regulation (GDPR) has multiple impacts on call centers that operate in, or provide service to, Europe.
CX Journey
APRIL 25, 2018
Image courtesy of Pixabay Today's post was originally written for Brand Quarterly. It appeared in their November 28, 2017, issue. It has been slightly modified. Customers are yearning for better experiences. But what are you doing to design a better experience? How do you know what your customers’ expectations are? What are they trying to achieve? And how well is that going for them?
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 23, 2018
Last week I outlined some tactics to prevent customers from derailing a workshop with out-of-scope ideas and feedback. But what if your workshop includes a tricky customer who continues to push the conversation in an unproductive direction? . An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. To ensure you’re recruiting customers who will be opinionated but constructive, we strongly recommend a phone or Skype conversation to vet potential workshop participants.
Customer Bliss
APRIL 24, 2018
This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! I’m sending a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of the podcast guests I’ve interviewed since the launch of this podcast back in 2016. And of course, thank you to the listeners who support this show and tune in to hear all of the wonderful CX insights, lessons, and tactics discussed.
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.
Comm100
APRIL 24, 2018
Have you ever experienced that feeling when you encounter a new piece of information that completely shifts your understanding of the world around you? Whether it’s a great book, an enlightening movie or a blog post with a fresh perspective you’d never considered, those moments are at the core of all great learning experiences. As a manager or trainer of a customer service team, you’ll know that excellent customer service teams aren’t born that way.
Provide Support
APRIL 21, 2018
If you are aiming for excellence, you can never stop learning and polishing your skills. What skills are needed for a great customer service? There is a long-running debate over which set of skills is more important for a customer service rep, soft skills or technical skills. A recent survey by Service Strategies concludes that 96% of respondents judged communication skills and interpersonal skills more important than technical skills for the success in customer support.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 22, 2018
Happy Earth Day! I feel fortunate to have a short daily commute. It greatly reduces not only my stress, but also my daily contributions to the Earth’s greenhouse gasses. However, when I’m not walking to my office, I’m flying around the US—or to some other country around the globe—to meet with a client, deliver a speech, or facilitate a workshop. In fact, as I write this, on Earth Day, I’m sitting at 35,000 as a Boeing 777 whisks me from San Francisco to Boston, where I’ll be speaking at the CX N
ClientSuccess
APRIL 25, 2018
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches , welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Allen Speaks
APRIL 25, 2018
Recently I had to call the contact center of FootJoy regarding an order I had placed on their website for golf shoes. With a size 11 woman’s shoe, it is almost impossible to find golf shoes in local retail outlets. In the FootJoy order process, the size menu defaults to a size 5.5 and you change it to see if your size is available. I was excited to be able to find a pair I liked and ordered the size 11.
Confirmit
APRIL 24, 2018
Ready to learn more about Confirmit? Our world-class solutions enable companies to run Customer Experience programs that increase revenue, reduce costs and promote culture change. Confirmit helps businesses operationalize feedback to drive change throughout their organizations using the world’s most secure, reliable and scalable solutions for Voice of the Customer, Employee Engagement and Market Research programs.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 26, 2018
The most successful products aren’t always the ones that win. Often, it’s the products that are first to mind. The products that create habits. Some habits, however, are much healthier than others, so what’s the secret to designing healthy patterns of behavior? As author Nir Eyal has learned, it requires a rigorous commitment to ethics – and empathetically questioning even your best intentions.
ClientSuccess
APRIL 26, 2018
For those just joining our blog series CSM from the Trenches, welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs), discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.
Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali
Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.
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