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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
The Influencers Customer Service Report
Recently, I was reminded about a report that OneReach put together in October. They asked 63 customer service influencers to answer the question “What’s the best way to improve customer service?” The resulting report provides food for thought from multiple...
Staffing for Weekends
Here’s an idea: If you’re a consumer-facing service operation and want to stand out from the crowd, be there for your customers on weekends. That’s when many are checking accounts, kicking around options for the renovation, paying utility bills, and booking that trip...
The Problem with Daily Averages (and the Solution)
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #9 – They Get the Budget and Support They Need
Far too many contact centers are operating under the auspices of, "OK, here are the resources we're willing to give you, and here's what we want you to achieve ..." That is the proverbial cart before the horse. Consider an analogy. Airlines couldn't possibly operate a...
The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have
Establishing the right measures and objectives is one of the most important responsibilities in leading and managing a contact center successfully. But there’s a significant inherent challenge, which has only become more difficult with the introduction of new channels...
The Definition of Customer Experience
This week, I was invited to share my definition of customer experience for CallCentre.co.uk by Hannah Brewer in her “ask the experts” article. You can read my response, as well as others, at their website. Note: This article is no longer available. You can find...
Cutting Costs with Minimum Impact on Customers
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #8 — They Leverage Technology to Support and Further Their Mission
New technologies are not passive — they are changing customer expectations, causing reallocations of resources, creating power shifts in organizations, and changing the responsibilities of agents and managers. The best contact centers identify the technologies that...
Customer Service, Brand Loyalty and Long-Term Success
Here are some powerful statistics that demonstrate the links between customer service, brand loyalty and long-term success. 97% of global consumers say that customer service is very important or somewhat important in their choice of and loyalty to a brand 62% of...
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