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How to Handle a Large Volume of Live Chats
March 23rd, 2020 | Live Chat

Ensuring that your customers can reach you in a click (or two) is crucial to offering great digital customer service and is what makes live chat such a popular customer support + Read More

AI Chatbots in the Contact Center – Help in a Crisis
March 19th, 2020 | Chatbot

In the past few weeks, I’ve been reaching out to contact center managers to find out what key problems have been brought on by the coronavirus + Read More

How Can Small Businesses Weather the COVID-19 Storm?
March 18th, 2020 | Live Chat

COVID-19 has had a wide-spread and hard-hitting impact on everything and everyone. It’s not only our individual health that’s at risk (to be sure, this is the most important consideration); the health + Read More

4 Ways to Get Rid of Painful CX Silos
February 25th, 2020 | Customer Experience, Omnichannel

Siloed systems are one of the greatest obstacles to a quality customer experience (CX). Your team can spend days crafting the perfect customer journey, but if only some people + Read More

5 Key Customer Profiles Every Company Should Treat Like VIPs
February 19th, 2020 | Live Chat

Your VIPs are your company’s most important customers, as defined by you. Whether you work in a B2B or B2C industry, you can + Read More

4 Things to Consider When Mapping Your Digital Customer Journey
January 21st, 2020 | Omnichannel

Whether you’re new to digital omnichannel or your company is already deep into digital transformation for customer service, it’s always important to check + Read More

2020 Is the Year of Digital Omnichannel. Here’s What You Need to Know
January 14th, 2020 | Omnichannel

It seems like just yesterday that the customer service industry began transitioning from a multichannel to an omnichannel mindset. It was a shift + Read More

Why Your Business Needs an Online Ticket Management System
January 13th, 2020 | Customer Service

Note: This blog post was originally published in November 2015, and as it is one of our most popular posts, we have updated + Read More

Roundup: Top 10 Content Pieces of 2019
December 16th, 2019 | Customer Experience

Ah, the end of another year. It’s a time for reflecting on the recent past and thinking forward to what the new year + Read More

AI Chatbots: The Dream vs. The Reality (Pt. 2: Automation)
October 1st, 2019 | Chatbot

“Artificial intelligence” might come across to many as a trending buzzword used by enthusiastic tech theorists and marketers, but in this series I’ll + Read More

AI Chatbots: The Dream vs. The Reality (Pt. 1 – Delight)
September 23rd, 2019 | Chatbot

The concept of “artificial intelligence” often gets invoked as a buzzword by enthusiastic tech theorists or marketers, but in this series, I’ll show + Read More

How to evaluate HIPAA compliant patient engagement software vendors, Part 2
September 3rd, 2019 | Customer Experience

This is Part two of a two-part series on HIPAA compliance for digital customer engagement. Click here for part one, which covers HIPAA + Read More

How to evaluate HIPAA compliant patient engagement software vendors, Part 1
August 27th, 2019 | Customer Experience

This is the first of a two-part series about digital customer engagement and HIPAA compliance. In this post we cover the role of + Read More

4 Tips to Improve Your Contact Center Customer Experience
August 20th, 2019 | Customer Experience

If you’re in the contact center space, chances are you already have a customer experience strategy. However, while many contact centers are able + Read More

The Telephone is a Dying Communication Channel. And it’s Being Killed by Robocalls.
August 15th, 2019 | Contact Center

My phone rings. It’s a mobile number, and I’m expecting a call.  I pick up the phone. An automated voice responds:  “We are calling + Read More

AI is here to help agents, not take their jobs
August 8th, 2019 | Customer Service

As AI becomes more and more commonplace, people are questioning “Is my job safe?”. Looking purely at the news coverage from mainstream outlets, + Read More

AI: When to play it safe and when it’s risky business
July 30th, 2019 | Customer Service

Thirty-five years ago, times were much simpler – the first IBM PC had recently hit the market, smartphones didn’t exist, and we were + Read More

3 Practical Ways AI in the Contact Center Gets Real
July 11th, 2019 | Customer Experience

No matter what kind of work you do, it’s getting harder and harder to steer clear of conversations about how artificial intelligence is + Read More