Andy Middleton

Andy is a consultant with over 16 years of experience in professional services and systems integration who specializes in planning and implementing customer-centric, multi-channel solutions that increase customer satisfaction, decrease cost, and increase revenue throughout the customer journey. He’s an expert in customer experience and contact center strategies, processes, and technologies.

How to Enchant Customers & Employees…according to Guy Kawasaki

Increasingly, the experience is the product. The experience a customer has when they unwrap their purchase or get to personalize the music on hold or chuckle at the sheer number of dog puns in a piece of marketing (BarkBox: You lucky dog! We paw-pick the best toys for your pawchus.) is how you reach customers’ […]

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Voice for Value, Not for Cost: 5 Ways to Leverage Voice in the Digital Age

Traditionally, the voice channel is viewed by organizations as a higher cost channel, and recently, digital channels are viewed by customers as lower effort channels. Therefore, the accelerating trend over the last decade has been for organizations to move their focus from the voice channel, live agent interactions, to digital channels, or automated interactions. Compound

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How has digital changed the way people do business & businesses sell?

Sixteen years ago, only 6.7% of the global population had internet access. Today, 3 billion people and 40% of the global population can log on and connect. ¹  And by 2020, that number is projected to double. With digital growth accelerating, it acts as a disruptor to every organization in every industry. It also fuels what

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Not all Millennials Sleep with their Phones – Know Your Customers Before Segmenting Them.

At 32 years old, I’m considered a Millennial. A recent high school graduate is also considered a Millennial. I like to think that I have different belief systems, tastes, and a pre-frontal cortex that’s slightly more developed than an 18-year-old. Don’t get me wrong – there are many benefits to being 18, with newfound freedom

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