Tag Archives: Customer service

A Place for Compliance

Great customer service is the culmination of two things, first, having compliant business practices and second, delivering excellent customer interactions. Swirling throughout much of our industry today is a focus on the practice and use of compliance and how it serves an important purpose in delivering consumer friendly interactions. GCS goes to great lengths to [...]

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The Next Generation of Communication

As we all are seeing every day, the way in which we communicate with each other is changing dramatically. I can now communicate with someone through five different technologies and never actually speak “live” with any of them. Communicating through multiple channels with the people in your life – especially your customers – can be [...]

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Necessity of Compliance

As we work our way through these hard economic times, there can be tendencies to cut corners by reducing training, quality or compliance activities. NOT at GCS! Over the last few years, compliance has gone from a necessary evil to an absolute, non-negotiable process. In one broadcast, Garrison Keillor, the NPR Prairie Home Companion host, [...]

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Happy Customers Value Service

In the contact center industry, many companies adopt a “customer centric” approach to business. This is a proactive method hoping to acquire, grow and retain the customer base. While important, there is a key element missing from this business model: compliance. Compliance means more to your company’s marketing success than just following rules set forth [...]

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Keeping Customer Service Affordable

The Affordable Care Act requires a lot of study to fully understand the policy. That’s why I’m going to let someone else fully understand it. An NPR commentator noted that most people understand their mobile phone plan better than their health care plan. Regardless of our level of understanding, chances are health care reform will [...]

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Increase Your Customer Satisfaction Index While Reducing Costs

This free case study will teach you how to: Heighten the quality of interactions with your customers Enhance your customers’ satisfaction Slash costs at the same time and take advantage of your margins!  

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9 Tips for Reaching Out to Customers

Our clients partner with GCS to deliver professional and successful customer engagements. And in today’s marketplace,making a company’s product or service stand out is a real challenge. Companies need both basic and creative ways to overcome resistance and stay on the road to success. In our latest “9 Tips…” series, GCS provides its website visitors with some ideas [...]

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Enhancing the Customer Experience [Tips for Optimizing Your Call Script]

In today’s integrated customer marketing environment, the customers receive information regarding products and services through a variety of channels. Even customer service requests can be used to increase sales with upsells and cross-sells. How can we make our offering sound different from the rest? Two phrases I always remember hearing my parents say were “It’s not what [...]

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Usage of Call Blending in Contact Centers [Expressed Interest]

Synergy is a “so twenty years ago” term, but in some cases it is still the best description of a process. A great example of synergy in our business model is our call blending process. Call blending is when multiple client programs can be merged in multiple channels. For example, we can have a large [...]

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What’s it take to have a successful business over a long period of time?

What’s it take to have a successful business over a long period of time? Most people would say “luck” and they might be right in some cases. At GCS, our mission statement ends with the phrase “for this generation and the next.” Meaning, we want to be in business for about forty years. What does it take to have a business [...]

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