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Features, Bugs, Insights and the Art of Solving Customer Problems

Customer Service Life

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s been 10 years since I wrote an article on this blog about the importance of never saying “No” to customers. Ask your agents how they say no to customers and you’re bound to get an entire thesaurus worth of options. I’m not sure if it’s an infinite amount of tags but it’s a lot.

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6 Ticket Handling Problems to Avoid for Better CX

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Today we’re following up on our improper ticket closing blog. 2) Hot Potato It’s poor handling passing a customer issue from one agent to another without context or communication (there’s that word again) with the customer. Agent: The drop down menu has the available color selections. That’s understandable. Customer: I know.

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8 Essential Features for your Contact Center LMS

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on October 8, 2018. When you picture customer service training, what key elements come to mind? Now consider training for a team that’s distributed over multiple locations or a team of tenured agents needing ongoing training to keep skills and knowledge up to date.

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Small Business Guide to Live Chat in 2021

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From here, they connect with an agent and exchange typed messages (and even talk over audio and video chat, but we’ll get on to this later on). While an agent on the phone can only handle one customer query at a time, a live chat agent can handle two or three conversations simultaneously (while still providing attentive support).

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5 Contact Center Tech Upgrades to Consider in 2019

Customer Service Life

The text of this article originally appeared on the ICMI blog on December 5, 2018. Hint: Focus on Agent Performance. That’s when we discovered an integration called BubbleIQ where agents, by simply tagging a ticket, can have that ticket posted to the appropriate Slack channel. Harness the power of microlearning.

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9 Questions to Ask When Designing a Quality Program

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on July 25, 2017. These forms might feature a variety of scoring methods and include elements to evaluate the agent’s greeting, closing, communication skills, and the accuracy of the answer provided to the customer. What tools and systems will agents be using? Empathetic.

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7 More Technologies To Jumpstart Your Customer Service

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the FCR blog on May 3, 2017. You can have a bot respond to common questions from your knowledge base and training the bot is simple. Have you ever stopped to think about how much time your contact center agents spent gathering information from callers and entering it into the CRM?