Report: Merchants Need to Address Live Chat

| Jim Tierney

Merchants need to “move off the needle” to support live chat because it has reached a “tipping point” of adoption, according to Bold Chat’s 2012 Live Chat Effectiveness Research Report.

Benchmarking Contact Center Best Practices for Cross-Selling & Up-Selling

| Jason Lancaster

Taking advantage of cross-selling and up-selling can maximize company profits and significantly enhance the overall customer experience by adding value to customers during inbound interactions and limiting the number of outbound calls potential and existing customer receive. Here’s four steps for effectively incorporating cross-selling and up-selling into your contact center

The Top 20 Contact Center Metrics for 2012

| Penny Reynolds

The three main stakeholder groups are pretty obvious. The most important group is, of course, is your customer base. The second group is the senior management team. And the third group is your contact center workforce. We