Premium rate numbers abolished; will customer calls rise?

With costly calls to premium rate numbers now officially a thing of the past, some businesses…

Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) and Workforce Optimisation (WFO)

Klaas van der Leest, UK Managing Director, Intelecom UK Ltd says it’s time to connect the…

AOMi – 21st century BPO – better service, leaner margins

AOMi chief executive Richard Jeffery explores how leading-edge operations management capabilities within the back office can…

Social Media in the Contact Centre?

Social Media in the Contact Centre? – Susannah Richardson, www.mplsystems.co.uk Social media is having a major…

Connecting with Customers Socially according to Cirrus

Customers spend far more time online than they do talking to you. As such, if you…

Sabio: You don’t want to do it like that……

Sabio’s Reaction to Channel4’s Documentary ‘The Complainers’ In our industry there’s a lot of talk about…

How to boost revenue through improved customer engagement

How to boost revenue through improved customer engagement explains Richard Farrell, CTO, Netcall “Your call is…

The Beautiful Gamification

Craig Pumfrey, Vice President Marketing EMEA at NICE Systems The football season is finished but with…

Urgent call for employers to address noise

Urgent call for employers to address noise • Employers are liable as workers spend nearly two…

Keep customer effort to a minimum to reduce complaints

Banks and insurance companies are breaking records for the worst customer service according to new figures…

UK Contact Centres are Already Failing Social Media Users

As a contact centre channel, social media is the new kid on the block. Many companies…

“Tangled” telco market needs to re-think business model

Market challengers, smaller players, regional and international legislation, and constantly connected consumers, are all coming together…

Remote Working – Good Bad or Ugly?

Much has been written about the benefits of remote working – some contact centres embrace the…

Lloyds Bank Contact Centre Closure indicates a Positive Industry Trend

The recent announcement that Lloyds Bank will close its Warrington contact centre at the beginning of…

Key Metrics That Really Matter In Your Contact Centre

key metrics – As long as I have been working in the contact centre industry, I…

Returning service operations to the UK? Try cloud-based homeworking

The tide is turning in the outsourcing world. What was once a flood of companies turning…

The desk is dead! Long live the desk!

Rise of mobile devices is adding to workplace pressure, but the office remains King when it…

Why customers might not trust Paym…yet

Customer experience experts welcome easy mobile payments but say banks’ attitude to security may be exposed…

How To Improve Contact Centre Call Quality Monitoring

How can you improve contact centre call quality monitoring without spending all of your time listening…

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