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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

CSM Magazine

trillion spent in 2007. If an interactive voice response (IVR) system is difficult to use, customers either hang up or zero out to an agent, raising inbound call volume and prolonging average handle time. There’s a reason for that: Retail sales hit a record of $6 trillion in 2018, according to the U.S. since last year.

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Customer Experience Keynote Speaker: Customer Service vs Customer Experience

Michel Falcon Experience

Now here’s a little tip. Uh, so there’s a tip, but hopefully your eyes don’t divert when, uh, when we get to that part. My career started in 2007 as a call center agent in my early twenties. Because we’re going to talk about wants versus needs. He gets it right. How do we deploy this?