[This article was originally published by ICMI.] As a lifelong writing teacher, I’m overwhelmed (traumatized?) by our industry’s gen AI frenzy. Yes, our agents will be faster if they use gen AI tools to reply to customers’ emails, chats, social posts, or ratings and...
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Writing Well When Your Attention is Divided
[This article was originally published by Contact Center Pipeline.] These 10 tips will enable you to focus on your message. Your heart is in the right place. You intend to focus on the important writing tasks on your to-do list: that detailed response to an angry...
Customer Service E-Mail Quality Review Tool
The Quality Review Tool presents seven industry-tested standards for e-mail quality and explains what constitutes excellent performance on each standard. Use the Quality Review Tool to score customer service agents' e-mails, coach agents, improve writing skills, and...
Guide to Writing for Social Media
We developed this social media writing guide for the Centers for Disease Control. While the examples will be most relevant to health communicators, the guidance about writing for social media is practical for any organization that wants to provide high quality social...
Which Online Retailer Does E-Mail Best?
Months before the hectic holiday shopping season, we decided to conduct an experiment to find out which online retailer does customer service e-mail best. We sent the same e-mail query to seven big-name retailers that sell a certain toy croquet set we were interested...
