Meet Your Future Contact Center Superstar

Meet Your Future Contact Center Superstar

As a customer service expert, you’ll always have age-old problems to solve, like attracting and retaining customers, shipping issues, disgruntled shoppers, and burned out...
The Best Defense is a Good Offense

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

“The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.” —Gene Wolfe, American Science Fiction Writer "The best defense is a good...
Continuity Starts with the Carrier

Continuity Starts with the Carrier

When it comes to contact center business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), and cloud migratory challenges, one voice has been notably absent from the...
How to Create Real-World Loyalty

How to Create Real-World Loyalty

As we enter 2023, it’s never been clearer that we are living in a world created by a global pandemic. It upended how organizations...
Old phone showing death of customer service hotline

Why Customers Must Be Allowed to Speak to Your Company

One of the best, most insightful articles on customer service I’ve read in some time - one that pinpoints the inherent conflict or dialectic...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in January

Our top 5 posts for January are set to start us off on the right foot for 2023. Our Advisory Board offers their insights...
CX Disaster Recovery Customer Experience Part 2

Apologies Are Great. But Actions Are Needed.

When the customer experience (CX) fails, both the product and the service, but critically the customer service (see my recent blog No Excuses for...
Updating the Employee Playbook

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...
Moving Forward: What Will 2023 Bring for Contact Centers?

Moving Forward: What Will 2023 Bring for Contact Centers?

The New Year’s message has as its core, promises of better things ahead. And yes, that did happen to some extent in 2022. The worst...
Wall of Fame: Sangeeta Bhatnagar

Meet our January Wall of Fame Author: Sangeeta Bhatnagar

Area of expertise: Building Emotionally Intelligent and Adaptable teams. Developing human capital through diverse tools and techniques. What is your background in the industry? I have worked...
CX Disaster Recovery Customer Experience

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...
Closing the Customer Service Gap

Closing the Customer Service Gap

Technology cycles come and go, but with cloud and digital transformation becoming so pervasive, the contact center space has never been poised for so...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

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...
Evolving the Contact Center

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 –...
It All Starts with the Why!

It All Starts with the Why!

“Adaptability is an essential quality for successful leaders. Without it, you could remain too rigid and not allow yourself to...
Managing the New Normal Workforces

Managing the New Normal Workforces

Providing excellent customer service, support, sales, and billing relies on having the right numbers of the skilled contact center agents at the right times....
“Spare Me”…

“Spare Me”…

“Spare me” is an idiom defined as, “Don’t bother continuing to tell me that; I don’t believe or care about whatever you’re saying.” This definition...
Sponsor Wall of Fame

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...
Upskilling Contact Center Agents with Simulation Training

Upskilling Contact Center Agents with Simulation Training

At contact centers, human interactions matter. According to the 2022 CX Leader Trends & Insights report, 80% of customers indicated that positive experiences increase...
The Way Customers Communicate with Brands Is Changing

The Way Customers Communicate with Brands Is Changing

Find Out What the Data Reveals. Change. It’s inevitable, as they say. But over the past few years it’s felt like the world as we...