How AI is Reducing Handle Time and Improving the Customer Experience in 2019
It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers discovered that 35% of the respondents stopped doing business with some of their favorite brands after just...
Helping Organizations Adapt and Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The upheaval created by the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Your customers are understandably concerned and confused, and are likely coming to your organization with many questions, most of which are different from what your...
Why Customer Analytics Are Key to Unlocking Customer Experience
In today’s highly competitive products and services marketplace, the customer’s experience with your business has never been more important. Knowing a customer’s name and understanding why he or she has contacted you in the...
Building Customer Trust: 3 Tips That Will Make a Big Difference
As background, there are really two moments of truth in a customer’s relationship with their company—when they purchase and when something goes wrong! It’s typically easy to get high customer scores in the purchase...
Rebooting Your Workforce Management Strategy
Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). This presents...
How Analytics Will Earn Contact Centers a Seat at the C-Suite Table
Big data analytics is about to explode, marking a watershed moment for contact centers. There has never been a greater need for data-driven insights as businesses prioritize revenue growth amid rapidly shifting customer expectations,...
How Digital Disrupted Customer Service
Adoption of digital channels, from email and chat to SMS and social media, has skyrocketed over the last year and a half: McKinsey estimates that their adoption fast-forwarded about five years in eight weeks...
Taking the Leap to Success in 2022
Every big leap takes the right timing, careful planning, intention, a clear goal, and focus. And there are many influences at play that ensure a “successful landing.” Yet there is an immediate imperative to...
The Whole World Is Going Digital. So Why Is Your Buying Process Still Analog?
I just recently notched a second decade on my contact center leadership belt loop, and I’ve more than once been tasked with purchasing technology, including multiple CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) solutions. I’ve...
This 1¢ Piece of Paper Is Costing Your Contact Center Millions
You don’t have to spend much time on a contact center floor before you notice what seems to be an overgrowth of colorful little pieces of paper on each agent’s desk: clusters of sticky...
Building Your Training Team from the Ground Up
One of the most vital components of any contact center is the training department. No matter what kind of center you operate, it’s critical that those interacting with customers possess and maintain a solid...
The Sound of Productivity: Improving the Workplace Through Superior Audio
Science is bearing out what we all know to be true from our own experience: Noise levels in the workplace are a notable deterrent to productivity. Independent studies of business environments that employ some...
An Executive Interview with Kustomer.
If you are managing a contact center, your goal everyday is to enrich your customer’s experiences. That is exactly the foundation to which Kustomer built their business. Only in business for seven years...
A Cloud-Based Dialer Checklist
If you are moving from a premise-based system to a cloud-based system, you may not know all of the features to look for. Premise-based systems tend to be more antiquated and less flexible. Cloud-based...
Call Center Preparation for the Coronavirus
Call centers are a hub of germs! Reps sit close together in pods, they sometimes share headsets with their supervisors, they are stuck inside without fresh air every day, and they share bathrooms and...