Closing the Engagement Capacity Gap
Still reeling from the dramatic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations see a future of constant change and continued challenges in their efforts to connect with customers.
On top of reorienting operations and building...
The Power of Process to Shape Customer Experience Excellence and Fuel Efficiency
Let’s face it. Most folks involved in contact centers today are there to help, provide service or sell something. Customer experience excellence is a desirable attribute of these encounters, and excellence has a great...
Designing Inclusive Contact Center Experiences
Customer service professionals often make an all too human mistake: they imagine that the person on the other end of the line is someone who’s like them.
This type of implicit bias can take...
Customer Experience… Mystery, Myth, Mission or Magic?
Everyone is talking about it—promising it, claiming it and marketing it. But what is the customer experience really? Is it a mystery, a myth, a mission or simply magic?
Considering the fact that we are...
Four Ways to Turn Delivery Problems Into Good CXs
As the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt, supply chains everywhere felt the pain. A shortage of truck drivers, decreased port access, and international delays made it tough to get products into...
No Excuses for Poor Disaster CX
Disasters, like the recent holiday storms, are inevitable. How you plan, respond, but most critically inform and communicate with your employees and customers is what counts.
This isn’t rocket science. And it is the foundation...
Evolving the Contact Center
The disruption never stops. Between supply chain issues, workforce shortages, natural disasters, and whatever is about to hit us next, disruption is everywhere – and it’s causing an abundance of unhappy customers.
The worst...
Updating the Employee Playbook
I’m seeing contact center trends change, and how could they not?
Coming out of the COVID-19 health emergency, consumer life is largely returning to more familiar patterns and expectations when it comes to...
Inside View: Moni Smart Security
The home security market has undergone a considerable evolution in recent years. The emergence of smart home technology has introduced a variety of new players to the field—from consumer electronics manufacturers selling do-it-yourself home...
Look Beyond Surveys to Measure Customer Experience
Contact centers typically rely on post-call surveys to gather valuable feedback from the customer's viewpoint. But how do you measure a customer experience that spans multiple touchpoints?
“Keep in mind that customer surveys are...
Top 5 Posts in February
This month, our readers were quite interested to learn from Kathleen how to use Game Day strategies to evaluate their Contact Centers. Over in our commentary section, Brendan spoke of a big problem in...
Top 5 Posts in May
This month, our top blog posts are all about the people in our industry. Our authors share insights on everything from agent hiring and coaching, to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture and...
Top 5 Posts in December
Throughout December, our readers have focused on two big topics over on the blog: how to provide the best customer experience via an omnichannel approach and navigating the challenges of recruiting, training, and retaining...
Map Your Customer’s Journey
Today’s customers own multiple technology devices and use them to interact with companies and brands like never before. People’s preference for—and reliance on—technology to perform everything from initial research to the final transaction means...
Adjusting Strategies in the New Normal
If there is one thing we’ve learned in the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the almost continuous need to rethink and adjust business strategies and tactics in order to adapt...
Meet our December Wall of Fame Sponsor: 2Ring
Company
2Ring
CEO/Founder
Ondrej Smolar
Founded
2001
Describe your company 2Ring is an independent software vendor focused on innovative enhancements for many of the major contact center platforms (Amazon, Cisco, Five9, Genesys). 2Ring solutions always provide...
Defining the Branded Experience
How do you begin to translate your company’s brand promise into actions that your frontline agents can carry out?
One of the key strategic questions to ask your executive team is, what is the experience...
Omnichannel: Tracking the Customer Experience
So far, in our omnichannel series, we looked at the top challenges that contact centers face when transitioning their strategy from multichannel to omnichannel, the important first steps to take on your journey, and...
Boosting Agent Efficiency with Modern Channels & Automation Technology
An increasing number of organizations now have limited resources and staff at their disposal due to consequences of the current macroeconomic climate. When you pair that with mounting support inquiries, it’s clear that many...
Inside View: Vivint Smart Home
Vivint Smart Home is a company that knows about change. The business that started as a dealer for home security companies has evolved into a vertically integrated company that develops, designs, manufactures, sells, installs...