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3 Free Training Templates to Unlock the Potential of Your Call Center Agents

Alijah Landing May 21, 2021 We all possess greatness when we unlock our full potential. It doesn’t matter if you’re a manager, an executive, or a call center agent – we each have our own strengths and areas where we excel. Sometimes, though, that potential sits untapped. Without the right encouragement and guidance, it can … Continue reading 3 Free Training Templates to Unlock the Potential of Your Call Center Agents

How to Fix Your Top Work From Home Call Center Challenges (Advice from 16 CX Experts)

Veronica Krieg May 17, 2021 When contact centers turned on disaster recovery mode last year, it was next to impossible to send agents home with a clear strategy for helping customers. Customer demands heightened as anxiety engulfed the population. And agent attention was split between a home filled with pets, kids, spouses, roommates and everything … Continue reading How to Fix Your Top Work From Home Call Center Challenges (Advice from 16 CX Experts)

3 Tactics to Level Up Your Call Center Coaching With Speech Analytics

Veronica Krieg April 1, 2021 As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home. … Continue reading 3 Tactics to Level Up Your Call Center Coaching With Speech Analytics

Why Digital Transformation is Now on the CEO’s Shoulders and What That Means For You in the Contact Center

Veronica Krieg January 30, 2021 We’re all tired of harping on the negatives of 2020 (because well, there are tons, and it’s all still fresh). But it turns out, the tumultuous year brought us some positives, too. It’s a year that showed us opportunity. The opportunity to be more intentional with your time. To start … Continue reading Why Digital Transformation is Now on the CEO’s Shoulders and What That Means For You in the Contact Center

12 Statistics to Inspire You to Take the Next Steps (Big or Small) and Move Your Call Center to the Cloud

Veronica Krieg January 11, 2021 As many as 20% of Fortune 500 companies won’t make it through 2021 in one piece. Saddled with technical debt and bureaucratic processes that slow down decision-making, Forrester predicts many top-tier companies will sell off pieces of their business or merge with others to stay viable. The unexpected challenges of … Continue reading 12 Statistics to Inspire You to Take the Next Steps (Big or Small) and Move Your Call Center to the Cloud

How to Stop Abandoned Calls From Ruining Your Customer Satisfaction and Toppling Your Other Call Center Metrics

Ellen Christenberry December 13, 2020 A company recently charged me for a duplicate purchase I didn’t make. I knew if I didn’t jump on a call with customer service right then and there, I’d likely forget (or procrastinate) until it was too late and I couldn’t get the charges removed. So, I dropped everything I … Continue reading How to Stop Abandoned Calls From Ruining Your Customer Satisfaction and Toppling Your Other Call Center Metrics

How to Coach the Coaches: What You Can Do to Improve Your Coaching Skills to Help Supervisors and Agents Boost Satisfaction in Your Contact Center

Ellen Christenberry October 22, 2020 When I worked my first customer-facing job, I was on the verge of quitting every other week. The pay and benefits were good, the hours were flexible, many of my co-workers were fun. So what was the big deal? My supervisor. While I liked my supervisor as a person, and … Continue reading How to Coach the Coaches: What You Can Do to Improve Your Coaching Skills to Help Supervisors and Agents Boost Satisfaction in Your Contact Center

Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta

The free platform is now open to U.S. small businesses. Ginny Marvin on October 7, 2020 at 1:58 pm The Microsoft Digital Marketing Center (DCM) is now available in open beta in the U.S. The company had been piloting the free platform designed for SMBs to manage automated search and social campaigns across Microsoft, Google, … Continue reading Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta