Team building isn’t usually the first topic to be discussed about managing remote teams, but we shouldn’t ever underestimate its importance.
"Quality is alive and constantly changing. We’re always moving the goalpost to improve quality and, ultimately, customer experience." - Giulia Gasparin, QA Manager
Coalesce is a digital products agency based in New York that had a challenge: streamline testing and let their dev team focus on building new features - not on testing.
One of the most important elements of receiving feedback is understanding. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Well, that’s not always the case. Sometimes “understanding” isn’t our immediate response to feedback, because we’re too busy being blinded by the “wrong things” we had pointed out to us during it.
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Erica started her career in marketing but moved into success and support roles 10 years ago, never looking back. Read how she built a 30-person support team from scratch that proved to be the growth engine for the company.
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Kim Wagner, Head of Quality at PartnerHero, wants you to forget everything you’ve ever heard about Quality Assurance (QA) programs. In her mind, traditional QA programs used by most companies and BPOs are biased, incite fear in employees and - perhaps most damning - do little to help customer support teams improve the quality of customer interactions.
It is a ton of work to rip out an existing BPO partner and replace it with another, but it's often the right move. Read our guide on the five best ways to structure the move.
That first interaction with a barista can set the tone for the rest of your day. Walking into my local coffee shop and realizing my usual barista, the one who knows all my quirks isn’t on shift is definitely a nightmare.
Discover how customer support triage brings order to the chaos—so your team can respond faster and smarter while focusing on what really matters.
While experiences of this global pandemic vary between (and even within) industries, we can all find grounding in the number of powerful lessons we are being exposed to.
Being a customer is a pretty universal experience. So if we all do it, why are we so often disappointed by the customer experience we receive?
Any kind of company can use the principles of observation and shared responsibility to create the kind of customer experience that other businesses envy and that will keep your clients coming back for more.
