How would you like your callers to feel when they interact with your business, or pick up the phone to contact you? Would you prefer for them to feel at ease and friendly with your company, or perhaps professional and formal? The main points to consider are; Who are you, Read more…
For obvious reasons, there has been a recent shift in attitude towards sick leave within the workplace. Now, a minor cold that would have had a staff member working right through it pre-2020, could be a cause for seven days worth of isolation, and working from home if and when Read more…
Captivate Connect exists to disrupt the traditional on hold service offerings with solutions to improve customer experience, as well as give businesses the option to stand out from the monotonous crowd. Traditional on hold is boring, repetitive, and has been done before. Callers have come to expect a royalty-free, uninteresting Read more…
Accenture found that 87% of organisations say that traditional service experiences no longer satisfy customers. In the increasingly commoditised world with more distractions than ever, companies have less and less time to capture the fleeting attention of their ideal customer. With an attention span of just 8 seconds, being able Read more…
Hello 2022! After two years of tumultuous times and uncertainty, the world is adjusting to the new normal. Staff are back in their offices, meetings and events are able to proceed with caution (in person!), and a new world of B2B marketing possibilities has opened up. Undoubtedly, your customers are Read more…
We know that one of the first music-for-money playing devices was invented by Louis Glass in San Francisco. Glass was an innovator, and somewhere around 1879, he’d gotten burned out working with old technologies, so he left his cushy job manning the telegraph lines for Western Union. He knew that Read more…
Though it shows my age, I miss the cassette tape players. Remember them? They were high tech after the reel to reel systems which were hard to splice and difficult to store. The cassette tape was the first ‘technology’ that I used in our early days of on hold messages. Read more…
The author is a volunteer Santa and performs the role at Playgroups, children’s hospitals, community functions, and corporate events with all proceeds going to children’s cancer research. He has raised over $20,000. When I am dressed as Santa and entering a business, I am greeted by name – every time. Read more…
As a marketing professional or business owner it is easy to get overwhelmed with efforts to attract new leads. Every cold call, paid ad and social media post is crafted to push a sale of your product or service. Whilst outbound marketing on digital channels is of course important, inbound Read more…
Increasingly commoditised industries and market oversaturation oftentimes do not leave much room for new market entries such as small businesses. In order to overcome the barriers that these traditionally small businesses face, it is important to first identify brand strengths, weaknesses, and a unique point of difference. The customers that Read more…