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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.
Keeping Up with Customer Service Changes
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
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...
Be Careful When Interpreting Benchmarks
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
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...
Interview on Building a Customer Service Ecosystem
New Speaking Demo, New Era of Customer Relationships
How’s Your Mobile Customer Support?
Here’s a number that should encourage all of us to take another look at our mobile customer service strategy. 1.4 Billion smartphone shipments expected in 2015, representing a 12.2% year-on-year growth rate. Source: IDC
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