Customer Experience

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!

Posted on January 06, 2023 in Agent Experience • AI • Best Practices • Blog • Call Center Management • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Customer Experience • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Planning • Quality Assurance • Virtual Call Center • Vrirtual Contact Center • WFM

By Colin Taylor As I look at the new and shiny year ahead, I wonder what delights and innovations and opportunities may lie ahead for Contact Center operations.  I think in many ways we will finally shake the post-pandemic hangover; we just need to take two aspirin and realize that what we have been dealing […]

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Evolution of Contact Center Scripts

Posted on September 28, 2022 in AHT • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact Center Technology • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Mirrors • Help Desk • Quality • Quality Assurance • Training

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• scripting

By Colin Taylor [This post was adapted from a webinar that Colin Taylor delivered for Customer Contact Central on September 8, 2022. You can see the replay here while available: https://www.customercontactcentral.com/frs/22041151/top-industry-secrets-for-successful-contact-center-scripting/email] There has been a continuous evolution in scripting since we were taping printed copies onto cubicle walls. There are primarily 4 different types of […]

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Make 2022 the Best Year Ever for Your Contact Center!

Posted on January 07, 2022 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Blog • Business continuity • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Forecasting- WFM • Incentives • Leadership • Opinion • People management • Success • Supervisor • Training • WFH • WFM

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By Peg Ayers As the New Year begins, many of us turn to thoughts of self-improvement, swearing off sweets, resolving to run three miles a day or promising not to spend hours in front of the television every weekend. But how many of us look at our contact centers and think about making this New […]

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Get Used To It

Posted on October 29, 2021 in Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Employee Experience • Leadership • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Outsourcing • Quality Assurance • WFH • WFM

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By Colin Taylor We won’t go back to the “before times.” It is a simple as that. Wanting the world to be as you think it should be, rather than as it is, is the textbook definition of neurotic. So buckle up and get ready for the new world. “Hybrid work” is a new and […]

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Bright Spots for Customer Service

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

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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. […]

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Changes in Attitudes…

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 […]

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Sporting Goods retailer retains Taylor Reach to support e-commerce experience

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, […]

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Improving First Contact Resolution – An Analytical Model

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

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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 […]

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Improving CX on a Budget

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

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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 […]

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Think You Can’t Afford to Improve CX? Think Again!

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

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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 […]

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