This week, my daughter is graduating. As her “full-time job” of attending high school comes to an end, she’s planning the next chapter of her life. She has been working part-time for the last several months as a sous chef at a trendy café. Over …
Maddy Hubbard
Improve Your IVR, Improve the Customer Experience
I’m lucky enough to live in a warm part of the country. Thanks to a certain mouse, it’s a convention and meeting mecca. This time of year is especially popular for companies in the Midwest who are in the midst of a never-ending winter. A …
The Facebook Predicament: Investment Protection, Thanks to Aspect
Last week, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal several companies and celebrities, including SpaceX, Playboy, Will Farrell and Cher left Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook put a temporary pause on its app review process for new Messenger chatbots. Which means developers are currently unable to …
The State of Chatbots
Confession: I don’t like to talk on the phone. I’m not alone. In fact, Aspect’s 2017 Customer Experience Index contact with customer service via talking to a live agent has declined 10% in the past 2 years.
Picking up the phone started to wind down for …
Chatbots > Robots? Spoiler: Yes
I recently read a news story about Fabio. No, not the Fabio famous for steamy romance novel covers and more recently hustling imitation butter. This Fabio is a robot who was recently fired from a grocery store for failing to assist customers.
Fabio was unable to …
Report: Contact Center Challenges & Priorities for 2018
When I was in high school, a fellow student was bragging about teaching herself to juggle. She was explaining to a group of people how difficult it was and how not a lot of people can do it. I listened intently while wondering to myself …
Improving the Retail Customer Experience with SMS
I’m the proud owner of three enormous dogs. The beasts, whom I adore, collectively weigh about 400 pounds. As you can imagine, they eat a lot. Buying their food at a brick and mortar store almost qualifies as a workout. Getting the bag of food …
The Case for Self-Service: Your Customers Don’t Want to Talk to You
Faced with a conundrum, my son came to me the other day asking for help. He was attempting to register for spring semester classes, but because of a missing prerequisite, he wasn’t able to register for the math class he intended to take. Neither one …
WFM Insights Webinar Series: Register Today
Thanks to workforce management software, it’s possible to have a truly effective contact center that balances the needs of the customer, the enterprise, and the agent. But making WFM as successful possible means staying on top of the latest technological advancements and industry best practices.
Sounds …
Convince Your Boss: It’s Time for Digital Transformation
In 2000, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings approached Blockbuster (who?) and asked for $50 million for the company he founded. **Spoiler Alert** Blockbuster declined.
Today, Netflix is worth more than $60 Billion. Blockbuster, who at its peak in 2004, had more than 9,000 stores in the U.S., …