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Why the phone is still king for customer support

Vonage

Melanie, a Verizon Wireless technical support rep, took a minor frustration and turned it into a great experience. Read on to learn what Melanie did, why other channels would have failed, and how Verizon Wireless empowered Melanie to make it happen. Time to call. I dialed Verizon Wireless’s customer service line.

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Creating a collaborative contact center culture

TechSee

Power’s Highest in Customer Service among Full-Service Wireless Providers prize twice in a row. For example, a company’s focus on Average Handling Time (AHT) can be a significant barrier to contact center collaboration. The TEX model has been widely recognized as a successful approach – T-Mobile was awarded J.D.

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Investing in Innovation: Inside the Mind of the Man Behind Salesforce Service Cloud

Talkdesk

When you go to a contact center and you talk to a head of service or operations person, there’s a common vernacular that we use — average handle time, number of cases, transactions: There are typical and foundational nouns and verbs, but that’s an old way of measuring service.

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Investing in Innovation: Inside the Mind of the Man Behind Salesforce Service Cloud

Talkdesk

When you go to a contact center and you talk to a head of service or operations person, there’s a common vernacular that we use — average handle time, number of cases, transactions: There are typical and foundational nouns and verbs, but that’s an old way of measuring service.

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How to Improve Contact Center Optimization with Customer Journeys

Pointillist

Armed with this knowledge, agents can serve customers efficiently, increasing NPS ® , CSAT and FCR, and minimizing customer effort (CES), average handle time (AHT) and repeat calls. Without it, you risk frustrating them with interactions that require lots of effort, long hold times and costly escalations.

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Customer Experience Keynote Speaker: Customer Service vs Customer Experience

Michel Falcon Experience

But, um, I, truth be told, I actually had one of the largest average handle times in the call center and I swear I, I pinpoint it to that I wasn’t going to be a call center guy forever. But then Verizon wireless called and said, will you help us build training materials for western western region for a retail, uh, stores?

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People-First Culture Keynote: Las Vegas 2019 (Employee Engagement & Company Culture Keynote)

Michel Falcon Experience

But one day I got an email from an executive of Verizon Wireless, and just before that like, literally 24 hours before that, my biggest client was Ferguson Moving and Storage based in Vancouver; about a $2, $3 million company at the time.

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