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		<title>How contact centres use email</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email seems to be the great contact centre taboo.  Everyone is doing it, but no one is talking about it.
We recently carried out a survey to see how people were using email in the contact centre and we asked James Barnes to analyse the findings.  
The use of email is undoubtedly the contact centre era’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer service – the disconnect between spin and reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service Strategies]]></category>
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Want to understand why customer service doesn’t get better?  Paul Cooper highlights a key disconnect.
I was talking to someone the other day, who happens to be the regional director of one of the top 5 high-street banks. A jovial and optimistic guy, I sympathised over the events of the last couple of years and hoped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Cheat Sheet &#8211; Effective Questioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we launch the second cheat sheet in the series of downloadable training materials on Effective Questioning Techniques.    
This training module will help you to :

Use a variety of question types
Add more structure to your questions
Listen properly
Summarise customer issues and avoid call-backs

Click here to download the Effective Questioning Cheat Sheet.
These cheat sheets are all available in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reward for service, not sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many contact centres reward performance for sales and don&#8217;t reward for good customer service, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.  Paul Cooper  shares his thoughts&#8230;
Well, firstly I want to argue with one of the statements I have just made, as I think the assumption is wrong. For many businesses sales volumes DO depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to survive and prosper in a multilingual contact centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Turner shares with us the trials and tribulations of working in a multilingual contact centre.
I work abroad running the MI and WFP team in a contact centre that covers 11 different languages and multiple channels of communication, and having spent many years working in UK contact centres.  I have had to adapt my management style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 tips for improving customer experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer experience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Reilly of SoundBite Communications provides 5 tips to shape the customer experience in an evolving, multi-channel world.


Listen to your customers. 75% of customers say that in the past year the quality of customer service provided by companies has stayed the same or got worse. There is a clear disconnect here as 50% of employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A-Z of customer service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>

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Exceed your clients’ expectations with these golden rules of customer service…
After-service 
With sub-standard after-service constituting one of the major causes of customer defection, you as a service-provider can take advantage of your competitors’ shortcomings by providing your client with a top-notch level of after-service.
Business
With careful tuning of your internal policies, the needs of your business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customers are prepared to pay more for good service – a history lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in the long ago past when product was king, the marketeers ruled the earth.
Paul Cooper looks at the changing face of customer service.
When marketing ruled
Of course it was an easy job to promote, and tell the world about, the wonders of such truly world-beating products like Coca Cola, Kelloggs and Mercedes.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to manage complaints coming in via social media</title>
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		<comments>http://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-manage-complaints-coming-in-via-social-media-24541.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rboynton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aspect Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complaints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer experience]]></category>
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Social media is an increasingly popular channel for customers to get in touch with companies. Matthew Brown looks at how to manage complaints received through social media.
Social media can cause big trouble
The nature of social media has changed the dynamics of customer service, and this can be seen especially clearly in the effect of complaints. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning complaining customers into fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jorobinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service Strategies]]></category>
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Up until a few years ago, the only way for customers to tell an organisation that they were unhappy about a service was to write in or to call.  Now social media is changing it all.
Helen Rutherford  looks at how to change complaining customers into fans.
Quite often a written complaint would never be received.  The [...]]]></description>
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