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Feb 02 2018 Top 3 Customer Service Trends For 2017

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I just did a quick Google search and realized that I could read or watch about 10 million blogs, whitepapers, and webinars on the infamous “top 5” or “top 10” trends related to customer service. I estimate that it will actually take until 2019 to get through all the material so perhaps I will miss […]

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Nov 18 2017 Time To Remove Your Customer Service Solios

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Now that the Presidential election is beyond us, the last 18 months highlighted what a sharply divided country we live in today. The polarization and passion for political candidates reminded me of customer service channels in the world in which I eat, sleep, and drink. We have witnessed incredible improvements to the much hated interactive […]

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Oct 25 2017 Speech Analytics: How Effective Are Your Agents?

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Like most contact care center managers, you probably have some kind of quality control process in place that you use to monitor your agents. Quality control is essential for any call center, but how can you be sure that the process you use is giving you the full picture of how your agents are performing? What’s […]

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Oct 21 2017 It’s Time To Embrace Nontraditional Workstations

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The days when people worked only at traditional workstations, seated at a desk with a computer, paper in-tray and notebook in front of them, are long gone. Increasingly, people work while they are on the go, using tablets and phones to communicate and access their data. As mobile technology becomes ever more ubiquitous, the trend […]

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Oct 19 2017 If You’re Using CSAT To Measure Customer Satisfaction, It’s Time For Change

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As we’ve discussed in the past, there is a measurable difference between what companies think of the service they’re delivering, vs. what their customers think of that same service. We call this the perception gap, in which 80 percent of businesses ranked their service delivery highly, but only 8 percent of consumers agreed with them […]

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