Lose your customers or ditch your IVR?

cutting-cablesA new customer survey has highlighted huge dissatisfaction with voice self-service.

Has the time finally arrived to stop upsetting customers and ditch the touch tone menus? (more…)

28 Hot Tips to improve your IVR

ivr-185With voice self-service getting such a bad name, we asked our panel of experts how we can tune up our IVR systems. (more…)

Time to get rid of your IVR (or at least fix it)

Throw out the IVR?Richard Snow looks at what is wrong with IVR systems and what we can do about it. (more…)

Your opinion: Time to throw out the IVR?

Throw out the IVR

Has the time come to throw out our IVR systems and start speaking directly to customers? (more…)

Using technology to reduce customer frustration

Customer Frustration

Customer loyalty is the make-or-break for most businesses. If customers do not keep coming back to you, and are not advocates of your organisation, then churn will become increasingly damaging.

Keith Pearce identifies how a dynamic contact centre can increase customer retention. (more…)

How IVR can be critical to defusing crisis calls

crowdAlex Connors reveals how, when crises create calls, your business needn’t be wiped out by the sheer volume of contacts that come in from crowds. This, he says, is the opportunity for interactive voice response (IVR) to show its worth. (more…)

Delivering service quality: the power of speech

Tom Risbrook reveals how speech-based ‘intelligent call steering’ can be used to delight your customers while making life a lot easier for your staff. (more…)

Technology to boost agent productivity

in box full of workAre your agents so overwhelmed that their productivity is going down the pan? Let Frank Trefzer talk you through the technology that can actually help drive productivity. (more…)

Don’t blame the technology – getting the most out of your IVR

Forget the stereotypes of interactive voice response (IVR) systems as mere robotic voices on the end of a phone line. As Nick Applegarth reveals, today they are so much more sophisticated. (more…)

What to look for when buying – interactive voice response systems

toy robotThis month, we’ve asked four specialists – Genesys, New Voice Media, Plum Voice Portals and Sabio – for their advice on IVR systems. (more…)

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