We’ve talked about customer engagement on this blog before – both how to screw it up, as well as how to get it right. Today, however, I want to take a more pragmatic and tactical approach to leveraging a technology to produce those high-value customer experiences that will help you retain customers, increase revenue and […]
Read MoreLike a few of my other colleagues, I had the opportunity to attend the recent Aspect ACE conference in Las Vegas. The primary focus of the event revolved around discussion on Facebook and Interactive Text Response, and Aspect would not sit on an island promoting the upside of jumping on the Facebook wagon. The Harvard Business […]
Read MoreShould you trust manufacturers with application development? I bring up this question since several of my customers have reached out to me recently to discuss how they can move away from the manufacturer for development and support of their applications. When they were all making their selection for a technology refresh, they went through the standard process […]
Read MoreWe’ve all seen them – those sales presentations stuffed with graphs, spreadsheets and charts that portend that all you need to do is sign a contract, and you’ll ascend to great heights as the financial savings hero within your company. Now I’ll ask the rhetorical question, “Have those promised savings ever really been found?” I […]
Read MoreI wish I could buy a cup of coffee in the morning, a drink at happy hour or lunch at Panera Bread with every customer service leader on the front lines to talk about customer engagement. Could that be you? If so, I’d like to think that by the end of that meeting you would feel compelled to buy […]
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