From a customer’s perspective, there are two basic types of queues. (And I don’t mean long ones and short ones.) Queues are either visible or...
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Boosting Your Contact Center’s Strategic Value
The most effective leaders focus on the contact center’s opportunity to create value for customers and the organization. There are three levels on which contact...
Read More >>>Voice of the Customer: As Essential as Oxygen
Feedback from customers is like oxygen. Your organization has to have it to survive and thrive. Voice of the Customer, or VOC, is the process...
Read More >>>Use Metrics and Analysis to Drive Innovation
Metrics are not just there to report past activity. They can and should be used to help identify priorities and initiatives that will drive improvements....
Read More >>>Counting What Counts: Pitfalls of Service Metrics in Customer Service
In the 1960s, as mainframe computers were entering the business world and inspiring much awe, sociologist William...
Read More >>>Engaging with Customers Who Are Brand Promoters
Customers who are active promoters are demonstrative and outgoing about your brand. They’re eager sharers. They converse with you and appreciate and expect recognition in return. They convince others...
Read More >>>Acting on Feedback: 8 Criteria to Determine What Actions to Take
When talking about their feedback system, Emily Weiss, founder and CEO of the fast-growing beauty company,...
Read More >>>The Power of Meaningful Work in Customer Service
For years, a well-known company had high turnover in their customer service department. Customer ratings were low and employees jumped at any chance to move to other jobs. This...
Read More >>>Employee Engagement: The Key Driver and 4 More
The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose. Watch this...
Read More >>>Listening to the Voice of the Customer
The best customer experience leaders know how to listen and respond. Feedback from customers and employees is like oxygen. Your organization must have it to survive and...
Read More >>>Stories from the Field: Improving the Service Process
Focusing on improvements at the process level is so powerful. I once did some work for a company that provides software packages for businesses, and I spent some time...
Read More >>>10 Components of a Customer Access Strategy
Whether you’re a one person building contractor, a technology start-up, a government agency, or a global airline, you need a customer access strategy that defines how your organization will interact...
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