The industry has trained customers to be rude with a cycle of lies in customer service and poor handling of issues. If you don’t watch your words you train your customers to do the same. ...
An abusive agent is detrimental to a company, and so is an abusive customer. Is booting the bad ones, lik Uber is, good customer service? ...
Gender inequality and unequal pay have come to light with the help of things like the #MeToo movement and detailed worldwide studies on the state of gender disparity. These issues are common in the call center and contact center sector. How do we go...
Customer service agent support is key. Agents have a tough job. Let’s be honest, the work is repetitive and dull. These are human beings tethered to a headset at a desk for hours listening to people complain. There are many demands from supervisors and executives....
Per The Quality Assurance & Training Connection (QATC) 2018 study, turnover in US contact centers alone is "between 30-45% which is more than double the average for all occupations in the U.S." Intense. There are many reasons why there is so much turnover in call centers. ...
There are times outsourcing to a contact center is the answer. ...
Beth contacted her wireless provider via chat to ask about data upgrade options for her phone plan . The customer service rep, Dale, answered her question with ease. Beth thanked him, they talked about how cool the most recent “Game of Thrones” episode was and...
45% of agents don’t feel they have sufficient tools for success. Why is that? How can you support your customer service agents and improve customer experience?...
“Too much information, running through my brain…” The Police have it right. We're drowning in the amount of info available to us. However, what use is data that isn’t sifted or that comes too late? In customer service it means loss of clients and...
Customized ads, website suggestions, ‘people you may know’, every move online is watched. Common customer service tools like typing previews in chatbots and call monitoring are meant to improve the customer experience by making it more targeted. However, when do customer monitoring tools benefit from...