As we celebrate National Customer Service Week, it is the perfect time for senior management to focus on the area and re-evaluate their customer service strategy.
In the old days, the contact centre was seen primarily as a cost centre. Managing it successfully relied on improving productivity and keeping costs low, without impacting the service that was delivered. How are these ideas are being superseded?
Customers are now more demanding – and want to be able to contact organisations across more and more channels. They expect to be able to swap between these channels as their needs change, meaning the contact centre has to become omnichannel.
In our latest guest blog, industry expert Sandra Thompson explains what Emotional Intelligence (EI) is, and how it can help your teams better deal with the Christmas rush.
More and more contact centres are recognising the benefits of adopting cloud technologies or moving their entire infrastructure into the cloud. But planning a successful cloud migration can be a challenge.
Every sector faces peaks in demand, where delivering excellent customer service becomes even more business-critical. Being able to scale up (and down) resources to meet changing demand is therefore vital.
With consumers using an increasing number of channels for customer service, ensuring your company has the right mix backed by the correct level of resources is becoming even harder.
In our latest guest blog Colin Shaw of Beyond Philosophy explains the concept of the Peak-End Rule and what it means in customer service.
Embracing the cloud delivers major benefits for contact centres in terms of efficiency and flexibility. However, many businesses still have questions about the impact that moving their operations to the cloud would have...
Clearing is the busiest time of the year for universities and colleges. Get it right and they can fill courses and guarantee revenues. Fail to respond quickly enough to students and their questions, and they will take up offers from other institutions.