How to Deliver Excellent CXs

How to Deliver Excellent CXs

As we go through 2025, one thing is clear: the relentless focus on a constantly improving customer experience (CX) isn’t going anywhere. While CX...
Can AI Help Speak Customers’ Languages?

Can AI Help Speak Customers’ Languages?

The March Feature, “Speaking the Customers’ Language(s)” touched on AI-driven automation to help engage with U.S. and Canadian non-English/non-French primary speakers through the contact...
Are Customers (and Agents) Truly Different?

Are Customers (and Agents) Truly Different?

Personalization is key when attracting both customers and employees for a very simple reason. Selling and recruiting is about them, and their wants, not...
The CX Buzzword Hall of Shame

The CX Buzzword Hall of Shame

Customer experience (CX) has become a breeding ground for overhyped buzzwords and exaggerated claims. Unlike industries where technical jargon is necessary (e.g., medicine or...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in August

Throughout August, our blog readers have been interested in a variety of topics important to our centers. At the top of our most-read posts...
The Great Contact Center Standoff

RESEARCH: The Great Contact Center Standoff

“The 2025 US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide” is based on a survey of 192 U.S. organizations and 1,000+ U.S. customers. This is the 17th...
The Three Key Customer Service Trends

The Three Key Customer Service Trends

Contact centers will need more than just the bare minimum or bootstrapped solutions to survive and meet the needs of their customers. The contact...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in July

Jennifer kicks off our Top Five Posts in July by sharing how AI can be used to prevent agent attrition by identifying agent burnout...before...
Solving the Knowledge Crisis

Solving the Knowledge Crisis

Service and support organizations face a growing knowledge crisis. It is characterized by an ever-widening gap between the knowledge required to resolve issues efficiently...
Why Women Are Better Cold Callers

Why Women Are Better Cold Callers

Cold calling has long been a cornerstone of sales, which, in turn, is the foundation of the customer experience (CX), demanding persistence, adaptability, and...
Speaking The Customers’ Language(s)

Speaking The Customers’ Language(s)

To successfully engage with customers - and deliver to them loyalty and delight-and-revenue-driving excellent customer experiences (CXs) – you need to speak their language....
Now Hear This!

Now Hear This!

“Now Hear This” (NHT) traditionally signals an important announcement that commands attention. This especially relates to the U.S. military where it is a nautical...
When English Is Not Your Customers’ First Language

When English Is Not Your Customers’ First Language

All our customers deserve our empathy, but the ones who write to us in English when English isn’t their primary language deserve a heaping...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in June

This month, Dina kicks off the top 5 by sharing her insights on how benchmarking across industries allows for the discovery of innovative solutions...
Managing Agent Quality Issues

Managing Agent Quality Issues

The November 2024 Feature article, “Ensuring Quality in Anxious Times,” focuses on the quality assurance and quality management (QA/QM) challenges facing - but also...
Excellent Wellbeing for Exceptional CX

Excellent Wellbeing for Exceptional CX

Contact center representatives shape an organization’s reputation in today’s contemporary business world. They represent the brand through millions of interactions and can influence the...
Over and Out

Over and Out

“Over and out” is a signal in radio communications to indicate the end of a transmission, especially when the speaker is finished and not...
Supercharging Agent Productivity

Supercharging Agent Productivity

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in contact centers is rapidly evolving, transitioning from theoretical concepts to practical applications delivering real business value and...
Which “MetriCX” Matter?

Which “MetriCX” Matter?

In the contact center, efficiency is everything. Customers are always in need of support, and there’s a constant flow of inquiries to be answered....
The Power of Cross-Industry Benchmarking

The Power of Cross-Industry Benchmarking

Recently I listened to a CEO address the entire company about their firm’s growth emphasizing the transformative power of sharing knowledge. “Innovation isn’t just...