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We love our shoes! Designer Shoe Warehouse, better known as DSW, continues to find innovative ways to capitalize on that universal truth and keep customers coming back for more. From a single store just 25 years ago, DSW has become a footwear and accessories powerhouse with 500 stores and a wildly successful digital business. Today, DSW leads the industry it has so…

Have you ever heard the saying “the devil I know vs. the devil I don’t” as it relates to making a change to something new? I hear that saying all the time when talking with people about why they are stuck on an outdated call center software platform. I’m not sure why “the devil” gets all the credit, but basically…

When it comes to a contact center queue, the reality is that wait times need to be brought to a minimum to truly satisfy customer expectations. By maximizing self-serve in the customer journey, reducing customer effort with IVR optimization, and using analytics and Quality Management in the contact center, it is possible to find out where wait times are causing negative sentiment and the call reasons causing higher volumes and thus longer wait times. Additionally, using predictive behavioral routing can make conversations more productive when they do get through the queue, to hopefully mollify heightened emotions. But moreover, the goal should be to create personalized customer experiences that delight customers, so that queue times are left far behind in the customer’s mind.

Recent analyst research has proven that the job of staying compliant is only getting more difficult for contact centers. With demands ever-increasing, compliance managers and officers are growing more concerned with continuing ensuring contact center compliance while coping with limited budget and resources. Luckily, call center analytics software can help alleviate much of these compliance headaches. Many organizations still rely on compliance managers to…

It may seem like artificial intelligence is a relatively new technology trend, something that won’t impact customer care for years to come. In fact, the technologies that enable AI have been evolving for the past 50 years. Founded as an academic discipline in 1956, AI techniques have experienced a resurgence in the 21st century following concurrent advances in computer power and the availability of large amounts of data. As a result, AI has become an essential ingredient in customer care software innovation.

When measuring customer satisfaction, the experts seem to agree that no single measurement can properly address all the service factors that influence customer satisfaction. The recommendation is usually to engage in some trial-and-error experimentation to find out which mix of measurements is the most effective for your company.

Markets and opportunities move fast. Great Customer Experience has the power to accelerate growth as consumers have more power than ever before. Social media accelerates the flow of information and gives everyone a voice. Technology all but makes time and place irrelevant by providing anytime, anywhere access to almost anything. If any organization is perceived as being too hard to work with, then…