Posts about contact center (3)
Now more than ever, companies in every industry are recognizing the importance of digital transformation (DX). Contact centers, in particular, have felt the urgency of this task in the last few years. As the...
Consumer expectations have been shifting steadily for decades. In the age of Amazon, Netflix and Uber, personalized, on-demand experiences have become the norm. By the end of the 2010s, we were...
The principles that drive success are universal. Whether you strive for greatness as an athlete or in your business, it takes discipline, determination, and a certain amount of fearlessness to achieve your goals.Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard knows something...
“Hey Honey… Do you think you could wait until the end of my workday to finish that episode of The Real Housewives of Toledo? I’ve got sales to close, and for the life of me I can’t hear my customers ‘cause you’re using up the bandwidth!”
Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is an automated business phone system feature that interacts with callers and gathers information by giving them choices via a menu. Callers have the ability to enter responses using the keypad on their phone to either manage...
According to this recent Qualtrics study that examined more than 2,000 consumers, 100 contact center agents, and thousands of customer journeys, it only takes one interaction with a contact center to change how 78% of consumers feel about a company… permanently....
Did you know that, in large contact centers, as many as 30% of all calls can have voice quality issues? And that figure was from a study before COVID-19 and the fast, forced mass transition of agents moving to at-home operations that happened as a result. Can you...
2020 wasn’t exactly what you would call an easy year for anyone, and in some ways it was especially tough on businesses. The pandemic caused many companies to change their course of action, and fast. This kind of necessary-yet-difficult pivot resulted in...
High quality customer service has always been the unsung hero of driving company profits, and the contact center experience often plays a key role in how that service is delivered and received.
Back in 1990, a Harvard Business School and Bain & Company study...