Customer Experience Blog

Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.

60 Million Hours?

60 Million Hours?

According to a stat provided by Fonolo, Americans spend a combined 60 million hours on hold with contact centers, each year. Who knew?

Implementing Video Chat?

Implementing Video Chat?

Are you considering adding video to your contact center? Video chat is an access channel that can certainly distinguish you from competitors. And with the technology barriers coming down, more companies are seriously considering adding this channel into their customer...

The Changing Role of Supervisors

The Changing Role of Supervisors

Studies from ICMI and others suggest there are more supervisors today – proportionally and in real numbers – than ever. With today’s developments – emerging channels, proliferation of social media, the competitive importance of customer relationships, and the wide...

A Way of Doing Business

A Way of Doing Business

One of the most important leadership priorities is to ensure that your customer contact center delivers maximum strategic value to your organization. That, in turn, is what will get you the support you need from colleagues across the organization. It’s what will...

So Many Ways to Interact with Customers

So Many Ways to Interact with Customers

If you were to walk into an Amazon.com customer contact center, you'd see desks turned sideways so that Fire tablet support agents have a neutral background for video calls (one-way, agent-to-customer). Visit the GM customer assistance group focused on social...