Consumers who call the customer service department of your call center are typically individuals who have a problem, concern or complaint and are looking for assistance. Handling these people in an ...

Pick up the phone, dial a customer service line and you’re likely to hear an automated warning that it could be a while before you speak with an agent. These days, it seems like just about every call ...

During college, I worked in the call center for Kodak Digital Imaging. As part of our training, we were asked to go home and locate the phone numbers on 10 products in our own home and call their ...

White-glove service means the best of the best. It comes from 20th-century films when supervisors put on white gloves to see if housekeeping had cleaned appropriately. Not a speck of dust could appear ...

Understanding your customers, listening to feedback and empowering employees with the right technology will go a long way to satisfying customer needs. It's a customer-centric world. The call center ...

Timmia McIlwaine began working as a customer service representative for a major airline 11 years ago, and she remembers often going nearly a month without handling a single angry call. That was before ...

The combination of automated call systems and endless hold Muzak is downright enraging. Few things are more frustrating than having to explain your problem to multiple people and finding that none of ...

PORTLAND, Ore., March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering new rules requiring customer service agents to be based in the United States, with the ...