May 20 2017 The 3 Most Common Contact Center Automation ROI Myths
We’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 MoreMar 10 2017 5 Tips To Make Your Next Avaya Upgrade Go Smoothly
Over the past five years, the enterprise voice market, traditionally monopolized by industry giants such as Avaya and Cisco, has changed. Now we’re seeing migrations to platforms dominated by communications and collaboration tools. As a direct result, many of my own customers have recently undertaken major initiatives to either replace or upgrade their telephony infrastructure […]
Read MoreMar 08 2017 Here’s How You Screw Up Proactive Customer Engagement
I 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 […]
Read MoreMar 06 2017 The Veterans Administration Has Given Us Another Lesson In Bad Customer Service
Once again the Veterans Administration has come under fire for its mistreatment of veterans that have sacrificed so much for our country and our citizens. In the latest VA debacle, an army veteran set up a camera and a speakerphone and recorded his futile attempts to make a doctor’s appointment at his VA clinic in Bedford, Massachusetts. His video illustrates how poorly […]
Read MoreMar 03 2017 3 Reasons To Move Your Contact Center To The Cloud
What would you say if I were to ask you, “What is the goal of your contact center?” Hopefully it’s something along the lines of helping people solve their problems in a way that is as efficient and painless as possible. (If not, well… that’s a whole different issue.) It’s a very “warm and fuzzy” human pursuit, but if […]
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