Twitter least effective customer service channel for UK brands

Eptica research of top 100 companies finds customer experience ‘average’ across web, email and Twitter Many…

InFocus: Synthetix’s Managing Director Peter McKean

In the surroundings of their new plush Corporate HQ just outside Stansted, Essex contact-centres met up…

North Lincolnshire Council installs Sinclair Voicenet Recording Solution

North Lincolnshire Council has awarded Sinclair Voicenet a major contract to supply and install a new…

Is it time for Social Media Customer Service outsourcing?

According to the recent Ovum report on Social Media CRM Outsourcing the need to deliver social…

Costs, complaints & customer satisfaction are driving jobs re-shoring trend

Businesses following contact centre trend to improve customer service and bring key processes back to the…

Customer Service – Survey Reveals is Top Goal for Travel Industry

Customer Service – Over 80% of respondents cited customer service and staff productivity as primary business…

Ten top tips for managing sickness absence – Sage

A survey conducted last year by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that absence…

Web chat: Why it’s becoming the customer channel of choice

Klaas van der Leest, UK Managing Director, discusses the benefits of Web chat and explains how…

Getting it right first time just became more important than ever

First Call Resolution has always been a bit of a mantra in the customer service industry.…

RIP Average Handle Time says Enghouse

Historically, many contact centres have prioritised reducing average handle times. In the past, the metric has…

Unlocking the benefits of voice biometrics

How contact centres can improve security while reducing customer frustration and cutting time agents spend on…

Survey reveals organisations don’t learn from personal experience with only 2 in 10 measuring customer effort

Just two in ten organisations rate customer effort – the level of frustration, amount of time…

Contact Centre MOTs set to expire as only half do annual checks

Customer service roadside breakdowns imminent as half fail to perform regular audits Dave Ogden, Account Executive…

Crawley Borough Council’s Contact Centre celebrates 10th Birthday

Originally set up to provide a single point of contact the service continues to deal with…

What are the top five challenges contact centre managers face in 2014?

Sonia Rabone – Marketing Manager at Magnetic North Software Ltd It’s the beginning of a New…

Firstsource Survey shows Domestic Landline has not reached the end of the line

• 63% of UK adults use their domestic landline at least once a week • One…

Banks’ tangled web of antique IT

Dave Ogden, Account Executive at Aspect Software After a raft of downtime from various banks in…

Consumer hounding declines, but more needs to be done

Following Ofcom’s announcement that it had observed a significant decrease in silent, abandoned and nuisance calls,…

Five key contact challenges faced by public sector organisations in 2014

Echo Managed Services has highlighted what it sees as the five key customer contact challenges public…

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