Join me for my session at the Contact Center Connections conference in Chicago: "Live Chat: The Channel Is Mature, but Chat Quality Is Not Good Enough"

In just one year, TriMet (Portland, Oregon's largest transit agency) scaled its eight-person, Monday-Friday phone-based support team to a 20-person, 24x7 omnichannel powerhouse. Under Jon Bell's leadership, the customer care team added social media and SMS channels and rolled out support for Hop Fastpass, the first-ever fare card to be used in Apple's wallet. With […]

Register for ICMI's Contact Center Expo: A Digital Experience on October 6 -7, 202 and attend my September 29 live virtual workshop for free! Writing to Customers? Empathy is as Important as Accuracy Whether they’re angry, satisfied, or searching for compensation, customers need to be convinced that we understand and care about them. They need […]

Virtual breakout session at Contact Center Expo

It’s not “either.” It’s “both.” Your contact center should be using both human CSRs and AI writing tools like ChatGPT to compose emails, KB articles, and social media responses. Let’s be honest. Some CSRs are poor or unwilling writers. And ChatGPT can’t empathize authentically, and sometimes it gives bad info. You need both humans and […]