How to Use Customer Sentiment Analysis to Grow Your Business

How to Use Customer Sentiment Analysis to Grow Your Business

In face-to-face interactions with customers, you have the advantage of observing eye contact, tone of voice, body language, and other cues that go along with their spoken words. But when you move to a world of digital or omnichannel customer support, the human language element goes away and it becomes much more difficult to gauge…

The Impact Of Remote Work On Workforce Management

The Impact Of Remote Work On Workforce Management

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have opted for remote work. In the midst of “quiet quitting” and continued low unemployment, contact centers are leveraging remote work as a way to attract team members. The contact centers that offer this flexibility for their workforce realized that their remote workers could have the…

How to Deliver An Outstanding Omnichannel Customer Experience

How to Deliver An Outstanding Omnichannel Customer Experience

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels.  No matter where your customers get service, they’ll expect outstanding customer experience (CX), so you’ll have to be ready. Make sure…

Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Protecting Your Contact Center Agents’ Emotional Well-Being

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. They’re protecting and building your company’s brand — no matter what they have to deal with from customers.  Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their…

Make Every Agent Your Best Agent With WFM — Even Remotely

Make Every Agent Your Best Agent With WFM — Even Remotely

Agent performance optimization isn’t a new challenge for CX leaders. Post-pandemic, distributed workforces operating in remote and hybrid environments, though, have made getting the most out of your teams a lot more complicated—and important. Add uncertain economic conditions to the mix, and the need for maximum employee output is acute. The most successful contact centers strike…

Respond to Customers with Genuine Empathy

Responding with Empathy: 20 Ways to Show Stressed Out Customers You Care

These are difficult times, and our anxious customers need us more than ever. Some of them  need help with a simple task, like “How do I add a new driver to my auto insurance policy?” Others need help solving a problem: “Why was I charged twice for inflight WiFi?”  All of our customers need our…

What is Customer Sentiment Analysis

What is Customer Sentiment Analysis — and Why is it Important?

Words matter, but language is complex and often left to interpretation. That’s especially true in your contact center, where millions of customer interactions across dozens of platforms can leave you overwhelmed by information and unable to act on what you hear from your customers.  The rise in conversational commerce — chat interactions on a variety…

How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attribution

How Intelligent Contact Center Technology Reduces Agent Attrition 

Contact center agent attrition can be as high as 38% — and it’s not hard to understand why.  An agent’s work is frequently monotonous, stressful — thanks to angry customers taking out their frustrations on agents — and overwhelming with too many interactions to handle. It can be a thankless, unappealing job, pushing employees to…

5 Ways to Use Workforce Planning for Gold Standard Service

5 Ways to Use Workforce Planning for Gold Standard Service

We all can quickly recall examples of when we’ve received gold-star service — and at the opposite end of the spectrum — when service has been disappointing. For example, think of how an amazing restaurant experience combines well-prepared, tasty food with promptness, friendliness, and food-oriented knowledge. Then think of an example when you’ve been stuck…