Customer Experience

CEO Outlook: Why GigCX Workers Will Never Replace Dedicated CX Teams

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The term “GigCX” has been exciting members of the customer experience industry recently, and rightly so—any potential disruption to our industry deserves attention. Unfortunately, the benefits of GigCX are getting all the press, to the point where some companies are pegging it as the industry’s inevitable future. All the while, its disadvantages remain safely hidden … CEO Outlook: Why GigCX Workers Will Never Replace Dedicated CX Teams

Secret Sauce: Linking Transparency with High-Performing Virtual Teams

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The world is virtualizing faster than ever, with no signs of slowing down. Work-at-home employment is now mainstream, presenting several new challenges for business leaders that built their companies from brick-and-mortar. One of the most difficult aspects of virtualization is maintaining a collaborative, productive, consistent work environment that can withstand business continuity issues while strengthening … Secret Sauce: Linking Transparency with High-Performing Virtual Teams

Secret Sauce: Enhancing Culture and Behavior Across a Virtual Company

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As a provider of customer experience outsourcing solutions, we’re always trying to create an environment and an organization that can do more meaningful, tangible things for customers and employees. One of our key mantras is “elevating experiences”, which reflects that mission both internally and externally. Our SmartVirtual™ model is a game-changer for most families. It … Secret Sauce: Enhancing Culture and Behavior Across a Virtual Company

Partner Q&A: Creating a 40% Drop in Operational Costs in One Month

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At Activus Connect, we’re always highlighting the benefits of work-at-home customer experience, but it’s really our customers who understand it best, so we’ve decided to give them the spotlight to provide their unique insight into the SmartVirtualTM experience. A Closer Look is a customer research and data-analytics firm that provides retailers, restaurants, and hotels with … Partner Q&A: Creating a 40% Drop in Operational Costs in One Month

Case Study: A Closer Look

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Maximizing efficiency, reducing costs, and preparing for future successes. The Client Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, A Closer Look is a customer research and data-analytics firm that provides retailers, restaurants, and hotels with unique customer experience data from mystery shops. The company was founded 25 years ago by three entrepreneurs with an ambition to enter the … Case Study: A Closer Look

Top 5 Tools For A Bulletproof Virtual CX Environment

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Ever since BPOs began experimenting with the work-at-home model, virtual employees have been lumbered with inadequate brick-and-mortar tools that simply aren’t suited to a home-based work environment.
Fast forward to today and not much has changed in that approach; traditional BPOs have done well to prioritize the development of their physical operations, but often view home-working tools and processes as a distant afterthought…

A New Era of Better Customer Experience

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We are living in the age of consumerization. Long gone are the days when brands are able to generically outsource customer care support to low value, low cost, “business processing” agencies who focus on basic performance metric such as handle time and staffing attainment. Today’s market has ushered in the emergence of Customer Experience Providers (CXPs)…

The Evolution of Customer Experience: Would Darwin Approve?

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As we celebrate Customer Service Week, we thought it might be fun to take a glance back at the evolution of customer experience and ask ourselves, “Would Darwin approve?”
Eye of The Tiger?
The unrefined version of a contact center, an in-house customer service department in the 1980’s, gets a call from a customer. Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” music is playing while the customer is…