Agent: “How can I help?” You: “Well, it’s a long story…” Have you ever uttered these words when you’ve got in touch, yet again, to ask an organisation to solve a persistent problem? If you have, you’ll know that one of two things can happen.  Either, the agent stops you right there, looks up your history, and troubleshooting carries on from where you left off.  Or you’ll need to repeat the whole sorry story to a new agent. Even then,…

Picture this: A screen with four applications open, arranged in windowed tiles so you can still access the other five other applications hidden behind. The click-clack sound of keyboard toggle shortcuts punctuating conversations between each back and forth. A chorus of “Hold, please” to buy time needed to manually copy and paste the customer information that was just provided via the IVR maze. Sound familiar?…

Another Forbes mention! 😊 Dan Gingiss did a great write-up of Comm100’s Live Chat Benchmark Report and drew out a number of interesting findings – including that live chat customer satisfaction is on the rise. This benchmark report is a big effort by all of us at Comm100 every year, and I’ve been involved since our 2016 report. It’s an original piece of research that’s based on all…

This webinar was a blast. Jeff and I are good buddies, so it’s always fun presenting with him. However, this webinar was especially significant as it aired just before we launched Comm100’s 2019 Benchmark Report, so we got to share some sneak peeks at the stats before it was even live. As well as discussing the findings from the latest benchmark report, we chatted about…

Every year, we at Comm100 release our live chat benchmark report, tracking trends and themes across not only live chat but the state of mobile, AI and automation too. I’ve worked on this report since 2016, and my involvement has spanned writing copy to working with influencers and giving my own thoughts and ideas too. This is the project I most love getting my teeth…