Customer service

Bright Spots for Customer Service

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. […]

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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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Developing Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles in Call Centre Operations Will Improve Customer Service experience

Posted on May 11, 2021 in Agent Experience • Call Center DIY • Customer service • Planning

Tags: #callcenterDIY• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• mission• Strategy• vision

by Patricia Ballantyne Most organizations have mission and vision statements. Typically, the Mission Statement refers to the company’s purpose, or the reason why it is exists, while a Vision Statement refers to what the organization aspires to be. Even with inspiring mission and vision statements, a gap can exist between the statements and the culture […]

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Leading Spirits Organization taps Taylor Reach Group to Design DTC Vision for Customer Experience

Posted on March 06, 2021 in Best Practices • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer service • Customer service audit

One of the world’s largest and fastest-growing premium spirits companies has enlisted the aid of The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG) to assess their current capabilities and support the design of a new Direct to Consumer (DTC) organizational vision. The DTC channel will support consumers across the globe. Consumer support and experience will be delivered […]

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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

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 […]

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You’re Measuring CX…But What Are You Doing About It?

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 […]

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Two Surefire Mistakes to Avoid

Posted on January 22, 2020 in Agent Experience • AHT • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Turnover • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• Call Center Consulting• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Customer Service Consulting• WFM

By Colin Taylor When working to deliver good customer service, there are many tactics you shouldn’t employ even though on the surface they may look like they fit the bill of improving customer service and supporting your limited budgets. Here are two of those tactics you should avoid: Capping handle time for agents. Trying to […]

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Incentives and your Customer Experience

Posted on December 11, 2019 in Agent Experience • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Incentives • People management • retention • rewards/recognition • WFM

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #contactcenter• #custexp• #Cx• #retention• call center consultants• call centre consultants• Colin Taylor• contact center consultants• contact centre consultants• Customer Experience• customer experience consulting• Customer Service Consulting• CX consulting• incentive programs• incentives• Training• WFM

By Colin Taylor “Make your employees happy and they will make your customers happy.” This simple maxim has been echoed by business leaders from Richard Branson to Herb Kelleher, and it is true. The challenge lies in how you make you employees or in the case of a contact center, your agents happy. It is […]

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Is your Quality Assurance Arrogant?

Posted on November 29, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • People management • Quality • Quality assurance • Quality Assurance

Tags: #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• call center• Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Taylor Reach Group

By Colin Taylor I was reading a recent post by Helen Dewdney regarding playing Christmas music in stores to early in the season, and the fact that many retailers plan music even though it is not well received by their customers. The question Helen poses at the end of the post is “Do you think […]

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Why we need Customer Satisfaction as part of Quality Assurance

Posted on November 18, 2019 in Best Practices • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Quality assurance • Quality Assurance

Tags: #callcenter• #contactcenter• #custexp• #custserv• Call Center Consulting• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting

By Turaj Seyrafiaan More and more contact centers see the value of Quality Assurance in improving their operation both in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. However, in most cases the effectiveness of the process is measured internally based on what the organization believes to be the right approach or behavior. This internally focused approach could […]

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