Customer Experience

Posted on October 08, 2021 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Customer Experience• customer service• Customer Service Consulting• Taylor Reach Group

By John Cockerill Too often as professionals in Customer Service we report and write about lousy service, long wait times, poor follow through, weaseling phases in terms and conditions, too many steps to get satisfaction plus many, many more. Today I share two bright spots of a personal experience. First, Google and their Pixel phone. […]

Posted on August 13, 2021 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFH • WFM

By Colin Taylor Last spring when the Covid19 pandemic began, companies were forced to make many changes to how they operated. With the offices closed, they sent their agents to work from home. This was a learning experience for the center leadership, the company, and the agents. According to the research we completed in May […]

Posted on June 23, 2021 in Customer Experience • Customer service • Customer Support

A major sporting goods retailer is scheduled to launch an outdoors-focused retail brand in 2021, and has retained The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) to support the setup, and implementation, for its ecommerce contact center operations. TRG’s consultants and partners have extensive experience in supporting customer experience (CX) operations in the retail and ecommerce spaces, […]

Posted on August 26, 2020 in Abandon rate • Best Practices • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • FCR

Tags: #callcenter• #callcenterDIY• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Contact Center Consulting• FCR

By Turaj Seyrafiaan In today’s contact centers the concept of First Contact Resolution or FCR for short, is well known.  And many understand the value of high FCR scores both in terms of customer satisfaction and loyalty as well as reduced operational costs.  Most contact center want to improve on this element, but how?  Where […]

Posted on May 01, 2020 in Call Center Consulting • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Strategy

By Peg Ayers In a recent post, we looked at the cost of providing a poor Customer Experience (CX).  A 2019 survey, which interviewed more than 6,000 consumers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States says 72% of respondents said, “I am loyal to a certain brand, but as soon as I […]

Posted on April 09, 2020 in Call Center DIY • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • CXi

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• call center• Contact Center Management• Customer Experience

By Peg Ayers Everybody wants to improve the Customer Experience (CX) they provide, right?  But maybe you believe it’s just too expensive to even think about it.  Your organization is doing its best with the resources it has.  What else can you do?  Plenty! Providing poor CX is incredibly expensive!  A 2019 survey, which interviewed […]

Posted on March 10, 2020 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service audit • Customer Support • CXi • Help Desk • Sales • Service Level

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #Cx• Contact Center Strategy

By Patricia Ballantyne Over the past number of years, the customer experience (otherwise known as “CX”) has become a profession unto itself. Roles like Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience Director, Manager, Customer Success have been popping up. You can also obtain a CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional) certification, which recognizes professional credentials and expertise in […]

Posted on February 12, 2020 in AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Tools • Chat • Contact Center • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience • Help Desk • IVR

Tags: #artificialintelligence• #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• AI• artificial intelligence• Colin Taylor• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Self Service• WFM

By Colin Taylor Self-service has been employed for more than 30 years to allow customers to serve themselves. This has been a mixed blessing, while many of us value the time savings versus waiting endlessly in a queue for the answer to a simple question and to gain a single piece of information, we all […]

Posted on February 06, 2020 in Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer service • Quality assurance

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Customer Experience• Taylor Reach Group

By Peg Ayers Measuring Customer Experience is important, right? We need to know how customers feel about their interactions with us. We can’t improve what we don’t measure. But what are we doing with the data we gather? And is gathering, analyzing and reporting on that data truly improving the customer experience? I regularly receive […]

Posted on January 15, 2020 in Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• Attrition• Call Center Consulting• WFM

By Peg Ayers Not everyone wants brave employees in their contact center. Subservient employees are less trouble to manage. The status quo works for them. They never argue with management decisions. They keep their suggestions to themselves. In short, an unmotivated manager wants employees who don’t rock the boat. But what is the customer experience […]