Customer service and customer experience are both essential components of a successful customer journey. While the terms are similar and they are closely related, they aren’t interchangeable. Up until fairly recently, the term customer service was more familiar to most people. When you think of a direct communication or interaction between one of your brand […]
Phone communication connects your customers with a human voice, and by exploring UCaaS vs VoIP, you get greater capability to enhance the customer experience and be more competitive. You’re unlikely to have a conversation about business communications without running across terms like UCaaS and VoIP. Each is a type of technology, and each has a […]
If you listen to the conversations around you, you’ll likely hear someone complaining about a bad experience interacting with a company. It’s not nearly as common to overhear rave-reviews about good customer service. Your company can be the one that people are raving about when you take a few minutes to understand the differences between […]
This year has been…uncertain, to put it lightly. But one thing your call center can count on is that this holiday shopping season will be unlike any other in retail history. The last thing you need is to be unprepared when the holiday rush begins. The good news is, the more you know about the […]
Customer support best practices are the engine that powers your promise of ensuring a great customer experience. What do best practices really mean? Best practices refer to a set of guidelines and viewpoints that are generally accepted as the most successful way to operate (in an ethical and responsible manner) for a particular industry. Best […]
Call metrics give you a more objective way to assess your call center team’s performance. For companies using remote or distributed teams, physically sitting-in on calls isn’t an option. While good training programs will help enhance the customer experience, managers need the right tools to help guide their onboarding and teaching efforts. A dashboard that […]
The best small business phone systems should help you increase profitability and provide a great customer experience — all while remaining easy for your call agents to use. With those end-goals in mind, how does your current small business phone system measure up? Given the phone’s familiarity, it can be difficult to rethink what’s possible. […]
Difficult or counterintuitive workflows don’t serve anyone well. However, the right software integrations can streamline business processes. Software integrations, also known as VoIP integrations when connected to your phone system, will simplify and streamline your workflows so all processes move along as they should. How? Software integrations, combined with call center software, give the proper […]
Call whispering is a part of a suite of features provided by some business phone systems. These features focus on training and allow managers to monitor calls, coach calls, and join calls to coach and support call agents. With the call whisper feature, only the call agent can hear a manager listening in or speaking […]
The right call center software helps to build confidence in salespeople from sales prospecting to closing the deal. Sales call centers dedicate their work hours to fine-tuning their scripts and sales processes with the aim of generating quality leads to pass on to salespeople who can close the deal. Shorter sales cycles give salespeople additional […]
Traditional office models have long been the norm while more recently, distributed teams have come into style (and necessity). Shared office space was once the only way for teams to communicate, collaborate, and share equipment. Communicating with a peer in an office setting is as simple as going to the next desk over. Supervision and […]
Gradually, businesses have made a shift toward using distributed teams and remote teams, and with good reason. In the interest of efficiency and smart business, many companies are bucking the traditional business models where all their employees commute to a physical office every day. With the onset of the pandemic, out of sheer necessity, many […]
If your B2B sales have hit a slump, it’s time to evaluate your B2B sales strategy and give it a makeover. The unique characteristics of B2B sales call for different sales strategies than B2C sales strategies. Also, B2B sales strategies are different than those of the past. B2B sales are typically larger than B2C sales […]
Today’s companies can only be successful when they’ve made a commitment to sales and marketing alignment. In B2B sales, your marketing and sales departments are intrinsically connected. In a perfect sales world, they have empathy for each other, and they have a strong appreciation for the other’s knowledge and expertise. Successful practices for B2B sales […]
The transition from onsite office hardware to cloud-based software products has many advantages for modern business operations. Online tools are cheaper to operate than their on-site counterparts and offer companies more flexibility in terms of work schedules and staffing. Luckily, these benefits aren’t limited to for-profit businesses looking to stage fast and furious IPOs. Because […]
Working from home is no longer a luxury for the modern business. Whether by choice (to attract talent) or necessity (responding to a global pandemic), businesses across the globe are quickly adopting flexible remote work policies for their employees. For companies that have already embraced collaborative technology to connect their employees and customers, shifting to […]
Is your sales pipeline not converting? Are prospects ghosting your AEs? Are deals falling just short of the finish line? It’s easy to point fingers and say that one team or individual is to blame when a prospective customer leaves the sales funnel, but the reality is everyone in your sales organization has a role […]
The phone system for modern business
