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Deck the Halls 2018: Coping with Peak Season Holiday Spikes in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

Four years ago, we reported that Americans would spend a forecasted $600 billion during the 2014 holiday season. In 2018, that number has skyrocketed to a massive $1.1 trillion, according to data from Deloitte , which is more than a quarter of annual retail sales. Constant and Effective Communication. Bring it.”

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One Millimeter Mindset™ Thanksgiving 2018 Reflections

One Millimeter Mindset

This year represents the culmination in an ongoing business pivot – my own leap of faith – I’ve been making since 2014. Starting in 2012, I realized that while my Sales Aerobics for Engineers® Blog continues to win awards, the blog focuses on far more than topics which are exclusively sales-related.

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One common agreement between Gandhism and Marxism is 25.

Wired and Dangerous

On 10 December 2018, a new enterprise agreement replaced the 2014 agreement. Payment of Sales Commission. Company shall pay to Contractor a sales commission (a Regular Commission) equal to 15% of the retail sales price paid by customer for the [Company Name] products ordered (Product Sales).

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Three Digital Trends Impacting Customer Experience in 2018

Second to None

You can access the piece by clicking here , or by reading below: This piece was originally published by Oracle on March 16, 2018: “Customer Experience (CX) is not just a buzz word. Register for Modern Customer Experience 2018 here. . And again, Forrester (2016) showed that superior CX drives superior revenue growth.

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12 Killer Posts We Published in 2018 on LiveChat Blog

LiveChat

So, as the December 2018 is coming to an end, it’s time to sum up a bit all the highlights of 2018. In 2014, when Olga and I were hired as LiveChat content writers, LiveChat blog was gaining 100k unique views yearly. The post 12 Killer Posts We Published in 2018 on LiveChat Blog appeared first on LiveChat.

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The Importance of Always-on Customer Communications

Comm100

In 2014 we launched our MaximumOn service – a failover system that ensures that our live chat cloud solution would never go offline. Originally offered only to our Enterprise customers, this service was extended to our entire cloud customer base in September 2018. We were one of the first live chat vendors to do this.

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Episode 004 – It’s All About the Money - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

in 2014, 89% of companies planned to use CX as their primary competition platform by 2016. It’s 2018 now… that means that 89% of companies are aware of CX, what it is, and are trying to use it as the tipping point to gain customers. in 2014, $3.7 Start with your sales in the last 12 months or fiscal year. in 2014, $3.7