Every year, the customer service industry talks about the changing consumer landscape and how and how companies need to address their customers’ preferences RIGHT NOW or risk massive churn the likes of which contact centers around the world have never seen. Like all prognostications however, …
Tim Dreyer
The New Rules for Customer Service
Consumers are hard to pin down. Just when you think you have them figured out, they’ve moved on to something else. As Ferris Bueller said,
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
The same holds …
Manual Dialing Gone Mad: An Outbound Dialing Story
Editors note: A ‘bazillion’ is not an actual monetary denomination
Unless you are a Hawaiian-based Veterinarian, you may have missed the story of the rogue Gecko dialer who dialed a Kailua-Kona, Hawaii marine mammal animal center. Apparently unfamiliar with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) which …
Experts and AI: The Gig Economy Gets Intelligent
If you want to see if the Gig Economy is still booming, look no further then venture capital. Earlier this month NewtonX, an AI-based search engine aiming to connect executive-level subject matter experts to C-Suite decision makers in any industry, announced a $3 million funding …
Is Your User Experience a Loser Experience?
Much has been written about the constant change in the expectations consumers have for customer service. From the strongly-worded letter and social media brand shaming to the ever-growing preference to conduct agentless support interactions when/where possible, consumer behavior is a lot like the weather in …
Is Your Contact Center Ready for Millennials?
The millennial generation has become the single largest age group in the U.S. workforce and is projected to spend $1.4 trillion annually by 2020. As the first generation of digital natives to enter the workforce, they have also changed how businesses interact with customers, which …
Customer Service Confidential: Agents Reveal the Secrets to their Happiness
Want to make your customers happy? Start with your agents.
We all know happy agents, make happy customers. For example, The Tempkin Group’s 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study found that organizations that deliver great customer experiences have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as under-engaged employees. …
Get Your Contact Center Mojo Workin’
Just a month and a half ago, Aspect president Chris Koziol made an unconventional proclamation to the Aspect Customer Experience event in Las Vegas: The contact center has got its mojo back. You may ask yourself, “what is mojo anyway and does my contact center …
So, What Happened at ACE 2018?
Spring just wouldn’t be the same in North America without flowers blooming, windows opening, and an Aspect Customer Experience event recap on the blog. Much like breaking out my flippys and Corona tank top, it’s not Spring until we sum up the year’s annual event …
Customers Are Willing to Pay a Lot More for a Better Customer Service Experience, if They Get to Tell You Exactly What That Is
The annual Aspect Consumer Experience Index is out but before we dive into the data, I want to take a look at some things going on in the customer service market that will give us a little perspective first.
According to Accenture’s just-released Digital Consumer Survey, …