Tag: customer experience
Top 5 Posts in February
This February seemed to blow past, yet we had a lot of activity on the Pipeline blog. We’re still early into the new year,...
Seven Ideas to Deliver a Great Customer Experience During a Recession
Customers typically leave due to price, product or service issues. As a contact center leader, you may not have direct control over price setting...
Healthcare Access Centers… Past, Present and Future
Healthcare and PowerHouse have a very long and rich history. We have had the privilege of working with some of the best systems in...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our February 2021 Issue
Our Contact Center Pipeline family was saddened recently by the passing of long-time friend and colleague, Frank Priola. Those of us who have been...
Unexpected Lessons from the 2020 Contact Center
About a year ago, I tried something that we would all agree now was a bit foolish: predict what the 2020 contact center would...
Reducing Customer Service Friction
It has been months since the COVID-19 crisis suddenly shifted entire frontline teams home to work. Customer service operations in the hardest-hit industries are...
Meet Janet LeBlanc: Our December 2020 Wall of Fame Honoree
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AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Janet LeBlanc is President of Janet LeBlanc + Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the design and delivery of...
Inside View: Sweetwater Founder & CEO Chuck Surack
In 1979, when musician and entrepreneur Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound, a mobile recording studio in the back of his VW bus, he never...
Align Business, Contact Center and Technology Strategies
I’ve been on my soapbox for years touting the importance of aligning the business strategy, the contact center operations strategy, and the contact center...
Agile CX 201—Practical Applications
Remember being in school? I don’t remember much either, actually. But I do remember how classes were designated. The 101 class was always the...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our November 2020 Issue
Sitting here this morning, I see we have three sets of numbers going up… way up! Unfortunately, our COVID numbers are climbing higher and...
How to Write a Five-Star Response to a One-Star Rating or Poor Review
Sometimes social media feels like the mean kids’ table in the lunchroom at middle school. Everybody’s talking dirt about someone else. And once the...
Meet Mike Aoki: Our August 2020 Wall of Fame Honoree
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AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Mike Aoki is President of Reflective Keynotes Inc., a Canadian training company that helps contact centers improve their sales...
Inside View: Ian Stokol, CCXP
The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) defines an outstanding CX practitioner as someone who “inspires excellence in all aspects of the CX discipline and...
Caring for Customers During a Pandemic
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been multilayered, creating widespread fear and stress over health and safety, income, finances, child care, elder care...
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...
Five Essential Skills of Top Customer Service Reps
According to Bain & Company, organizations that excel at customer experience grow revenues 4%-8% above the rest of the market. Often, companies don’t understand...
Inside View: Purchasing Power
It takes a skilled service professional to deliver a quick, competent response to a customer complaint. When an escalated issue has been resolved with...
The Emotion Connection: Tapping into the Science of Human Emotion to Deliver More Valuable...
Human emotions are a tricky business. Researchers have been trying to understand and interpret emotions since Charles Darwin first theorized that human facial expressions...
Meet Kathleen Peterson: Our April 2020 Wall of Fame Honoree
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AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Kathleen Peterson is Chief Vision Officer of PowerHouse Consulting, a renowned management consulting firm specializing in operationalizing the Customer...