Tag: customer experience

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,...

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 and PowerHouse have a very long and rich history. We have had the privilege of working with some of the best systems in...

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...

About a year ago, I tried something that we would all agree now was a bit foolish: predict what the 2020 contact center would...

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...

Contact Center Pipeline’s AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Janet LeBlanc is President of Janet LeBlanc + Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the design and delivery of...

In 1979, when musician and entrepreneur Chuck Surack founded Sweetwater Sound, a mobile recording studio in the back of his VW bus, he never...

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...

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...

Sitting here this morning, I see we have three sets of numbers going up… way up! Unfortunately, our COVID numbers are climbing higher and...

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...

Contact Center Pipeline’s AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Mike Aoki is President of Reflective Keynotes Inc., a Canadian training company that helps contact centers improve their sales...

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) defines an outstanding CX practitioner as someone who “inspires excellence in all aspects of the CX discipline and...

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been multilayered, creating widespread fear and stress over health and safety, income, finances, child care, elder care...

The upheaval created by the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Your customers are understandably concerned and confused, and are likely coming to your organization with...

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...

It takes a skilled service professional to deliver a quick, competent response to a customer complaint. When an escalated issue has been resolved with...

Human emotions are a tricky business. Researchers have been trying to understand and interpret emotions since Charles Darwin first theorized that human facial expressions...

Contact Center Pipeline’s AUTHOR WALL OF FAME Kathleen Peterson is Chief Vision Officer of PowerHouse Consulting, a renowned management consulting firm specializing in operationalizing the Customer...