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Oman Customer Service Week 2013
Muscat, Oman
September 29 - 1 2013 September 29
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4th Annual Customer Service Week
The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort and Marina, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
September 30 - 2 2013 September 30
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CX Transformation: Financial Services
The Bloomsbury Hotel, London, United Kingdom
September 16 - 18 2013 September 16
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SSON Week Asia 2013
Singapore Expo, Singapore
September 2 - 5 2013 September 2
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Contact Centre Week China
Venue to be Confirmed, Shanghai, China
October 22 - 23 2013 October 22
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Thank God It's Monday! How To Create a Workplace That You and Your Customers Love
Roxanne Emmerich is stirring things up in the customer service world. Her new book Thank God It’s Monday! Creating a Workplace Your Employees and Your Customers Love makes the business case for making your company employee-focused, and in doing so customer-focused. Emmerich addresses a broad range of
Contributor: Blake Landau
Tags: customer | management | culture
12/22/2009 12:00:00 AM EST -
The Best Service is No Service
By Bill Price and David JaffePublished by Jossey-Bass on March 21, 2008.With customer satisfaction and customer loyalty levels flat or declining in most industries, companies are scrambling to find solutions that meet short term necessities and provide lasting change. In The Best Service is No Service, Bill Price and co-author David Jaffe describe a paradigm shift that moves the emphasis from accepting dema....Read more
Contributor: Book Review
Tags: David Jaffe | Amazon | Bill Price
02/17/2009 7:03:00 AM EST -
Customer Service Excellence Within a Call Center Environment: A Discussion with Derek Bishop
In the current economic crisis, ensuring that your company is operating its call center effectively is critical. Derek Bishop, the former Head of Customer Service for the global financial security firm AXA, speaks about the challenge facing call centers today. With his extensive experience in the financial services industry, Bishop explains why now more than ever it’s crucial to listen to the voice....Read more
Contributor: Derek Bishop
Tags: customer | call center | call center representative
04/20/2009 12:00:00 AM EDT -
Key Considerations for Implementing an Online Knowledge Base
“The shortest distance between Point A and Point B is a straight line. The shortest distance between a customer with a problem and a customer with a solution to that problem is Google." What’s a Knowledge Base? Simply stated, a knowledge base is a searchable repository of information. As the Web has evolved, the phrase has generally become understood to mean a Web page that all....Read more
Contributor: Jay Grady
Tags: knowledge management | customer relationship management | CRM
04/22/2009 12:00:00 AM EDT -
Build a Knowledge Management System You Can Be Proud Of
Let's face it. People are busy. Many customers nowadays prefer to hunt down the best solution for themselves. Some don’t actually want to speak to a customer service agent on the phone. Nor do they want to wait days on end for an e-mail response. The logic here is simple: Your customers are thinking that in the time it takes them to locate your phone number, place a call, navigate thr....Read more
Contributor: David Ciccarelli
Tags: centralized knowledge repository | customer service | centralized knowledge sharing services
02/17/2009 12:00:00 AM EST -
Improving Customer Service Experiences through Business Intelligence and Employee Satisfaction
Customer Feedback Is Critical Today’s customer is offered a variety of ways to provide feedback regarding the customer experience with products or services. Leading companies use this customer input to continually enhance service delivery to improve the customer experience. In order to drive continual customer service improvements, companies need to focus on four areas regarding the customer f....Read more
Contributor: Jeremy Whyte
Tags: good customer satisfaction | customer satisfaction | customer feedback
05/04/2009 12:00:00 AM EDT -
How Field Service Management has Impacted Business in the Past 5 Years
Tim Ryerson from Fieldforce Services answers questions at the second annual Field Service Management event in Sydney such as how far the field service management industry has come in the past 5 years, including the largest issue of safety. Priya Radhakrishnan of GE Energy discusses automated
Tags: Fieldforce Services | GE Energy | Australia
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A Solution to the Social Media Call Center Conundrum
If you are like me, and so many other people today, you’ve connected through LinkedIn, set up your profile on Facebook, Twitted your Tweets and MySpace’d your favorite music performers to view road schedules. But what business opportunities are there around social media, and how do you integrate it into your call so that it's a media, marketing or call center channel for interac....Read more
Contributor: Keith Fiveson
Tags: social media | call center | social media strategy
11/11/2009 12:00:00 AM EST -
Does A Slow Growth Economy Affect Service Levels?
Several months ago a friend sent me an article with the headline, “Providing good service is the key to surviving the down economy.” I have seen similar headlines in articles, blog postings and on-line discussions repeatedly since the start of the recession, all claiming that a bad economy threatens service levels, and that we must remain focused on serving our customers, now more than e....Read more
Contributor: Peter Gurney
Tags: service | service levels | service delivery
05/11/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT -
5-Step Plan to to Get Employees Invested in Your Metrics
Shyam Kumar is the Client Engagement Manager at UP! Your Service, a leader in building service cultures for companies. Kumar has recently been writing about engaging employees in service metrics. In this article, he outlines a five-step process to get employees invested in your service metrics. The original post can be found here. Employees often don't care about service targets because....Read more
Contributor: Shyam Kumar
Tags: Customer Service Metrics | Customer Service | Employee Buy-In
06/02/2011 12:00:00 AM EDT -
1 800 Flowers - Undercover Boss Draws Wrong Conclusions
The latest episode of Undercover Boss was for 1-800-Flowers. Jim McCann (founder and CEO) and Chris McCann (President and COO) are brothers and seem to treat each other in that older brother-younger brother dynamic. This episode takes us on a journey through flower shops and a candy factory. [eventpdf] Chris McCann’s visit to the candy plant was the most revealing. I’ve watched conta....Read more
Contributor: Tripp Babbitt
Tags: contact center | call center | management
12/31/2010 12:00:00 AM EST -
Celebrate People Skills for National Customer Service Week
National Customer Service Week brings well deserved attention to dedicated customer service and technical support reps and all that they do. To that end, I pledged a few weeks ago to write at least one customer service post each week to honor the people and the field of customer service. This post is the 2nd in the series in preparation for National Customer Service Week. Celebrate People-Skill....Read more
Contributor: Kate Nasser
Tags: National Customer Service Week | Kate Nasser | people skills
09/09/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT -
Vodafone's Kristin Haynes on Customer Self-Service
Kristin Haynes is currently Head of Customer Experience for Vodafone Australia. She will be speaking at this year’s Customer Self Service Summit in Sydney, where she will be giving a speech entitled, ‘Optimizing Customer Self-Service Processes Inside Your Organization to Drive Service Excellence.’ Below, Kristen gives CMIQ a sneak preview of what she'll be di....Read more
Contributor: Gina Scanlon
Tags: Vodaphone | Kristin Haynes | Customer Self-Service Summit 2010
09/10/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT -
Social Media: Opportunity or Threat?
The social media phenomenon is proving to be one of the most powerful forms of communication impacting brands. Customers are sharing thoughts on products and services, good and bad service experiences, and much more. This new social “word of mouth” is the number one decision factor of 20-50 percent of all customer decisions. Furthermore, social networking is most influential for first time bu....Read more
Contributor: Daniel Ziv
Tags: social media | Facebook | Twitter
08/26/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT -
Every On-time Departure, Every Bag and Every Customer Interaction Really Counts
In a recent report, US Airways was ranked number one in customer satisfaction among major network carriers. More impressive, the airline accomplished a rare trifecta: In addition to being ranked number one in customer satisfaction, it also ranked number one in baggage handling and on-time performance. In this interview Christopher Elliott speaks with Kerry Hester, United’s vice presi....Read more
Contributor: Chris Elliott
Tags: customer satisfaction | customer service satisfaction | customer service
08/04/2010 12:00:00 AM EDT
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