Customer Satisfaction

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

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  By Colin Taylor Research tells us that 85% of customer churn is due to poor service that was in fact preventable. 11% of customer churn could have be prevented by simple company outreach and 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue had been resolved at the first engagement. This tells us something […]

Posted on February 22, 2019 in CES • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service

  Written by Garry Schultz   Hafeez’s cartoon is fashioned on a Like all Goldberg machines, if you take the time to follow the flow, it does work. The question is, “But, is it worth the effort?”  The Goldberg machine suggested a complaint often heard in Contact Centers – “thanks for the fix but it’s too […]

Posted on February 19, 2019 in Call Center Management • Case Study • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Uncategorized

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Are You Listening to the Canaries in Your Customer Experience Coal Mine? By: Colin Taylor The call center or customer service department has long been call the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for its ability to provide early identification and diagnosis of problems and issues impacting the satisfaction of customers. Despite numerous warnings most organizations don’t change, […]

Posted on November 30, 2018 in Agent Experience • Blog • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Opinion • Technology

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. Yet these bright, bright people still manage from time to time to do things that defy understanding. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do. If […]

Posted on May 18, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call center Humor • Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • FCR • Forecasting- WFM • Opinion • Outsourced Quality Monitoring • Quality • retention • Strategy • Technology

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By Colin Taylor In the daily operation of our Call and Contact Centers we throw around metrics and performance measures like they were candy. It has been said that Call Centers produce more data and more measurement opportunities than is possible in almost any other communications channel. But while we know what each of these […]

Posted on April 04, 2018 in Customer Satisfaction • Expert round-up

  Original post via ProProfs, expert opinion summary by Colin Taylor   With Customer Experience being a crucial factor in business operations, comes the importance of ensuring high customer satisfaction (CSAT) levels. A high CSAT is a indicator of customer loyalty and repurchase intentions. This differentiator will reduce customer churn. Retaining brand advocates results in […]

Posted on March 20, 2018 in AHT • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Education • Forecasting- WFM • People management • Planning • Strategy

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By: Turaj Seyrafiaan Have you ever wondered what is behind any of the Contact Center operational indicators? Why do we measure what we measure and what do they mean? In this article, we tackle one of the most important indicators; Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT is defined as the total amount of time (on average) […]

Posted on March 19, 2018 in AHT • ASA • Call Center Consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Satisfaction • Forecasting- WFM • Occupancy • People management • Planning • Strategy

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By: Turaj Seyrafiaan In the last Indicators post, we discussed one of the most important operational indicators: Average Handle Time or AHT. In this issue, we continue with other operational indicators dealing with the efficiency of the center, i.e. “Service Level”, “Average Speed of Answer (ASA)” and “Occupancy Rate”. Although each indicator provides different information, […]

Posted on October 31, 2017 in Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience Management • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service

By: Colin Taylor  Recently I was asked to participate in an expert round-up on How Fortune 500 companies Manage Their Contact Center(s). More specifically, I was asked to provide insight on the importance of consistency among different channels within a Contact Center. There is a wide range of channels available in the Contact Center industry. […]

Posted on October 03, 2017 in CEM • CES • CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer service audit

By: Turaj Seyrafiaan We all have heard that Customer Satisfaction is important and of high value to the business. But what does that mean? What is the true value of customer satisfaction? A 2017 study indicated that poor customer service is costing US businesses $62 billion annually. That’s up $20 billion since 2013! This shocking, […]