CCW TV PROGRAMMING
NOW PLAYING
Starting on the hour every hour today
Coming up this Week
Customer service professionals undoubtedly deal with difficult people and situations daily. As they work to help customers solve issues, they might be met with a sincere “thank you” or what could constitute as verbal harassment.
To get to the bottom of how consumers act toward customer care professionals, LivePerson analyzed millions of conversations across more than 500 brands, studying both “hard” and “soft” curse words and phrases and breaking out data points across demographics. Unsurprisingly, customers were better behaved when their names were attached to the exchange and ruder when protected by a mask of anonymity — 76% polite vs. 72% polite, respectively.
Key findings include:
What we call “soft curses” are the non-curse expressions — like “shoot,” “shucks,” and “heck” — that often act as polite stand-ins for more inflammatory remarks. “Hard curses” are those that would get your mouth washed out with soap.
See the good, the bad, and the ugly below.
U.S. Consumers’ Favorite Curses
Overall, soft curse words were used more frequently across the country: “Stupid,” “shoot,” and “goodness” nabbed the top three spots. Things quickly devolved, with “sh*t” and “f*ck” landing at #4 and #5, respectively, for the top hard and soft curses used.
Top 5 soft curses:
Top 5 hard curses:
“Ps and Qs” across state lines
States that cursed the most were Virginia, New Mexico, Alaska, Iowa, and Utah — with Iowa and Washington leading the states in hard curses. Idaho, Ohio, and Nevada followed as the states more likely to use hard curse words. Leading the states in soft curses were Virginia, New Mexico, Alaska, Utah, and North Dakota.
Conversely, the most used polite terms, in order of frequency, were “thank you,” “please,” “no problem,” “appreciate,” and “kindly.” The least polite states were Alaska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, and Iowa.
Idaho was found to be a very expressive state, as it was ranked #3 among the states that would use hard curses the most and #1 as the most polite state. Maine, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin followed as the politest states in the nation.
New Mexico, Iowa, Oregon, Colorado, and Louisiana had a high ration of saying both “please” and “thank you” in their conversations with customer care professionals while South Carolina, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Alabama ran low in this area.
Publish Date: July 20, 2017 |
3.) | voiptime Voiptime Contact Center Our contact center solution allows processing the high volume of client requests from different channels (voice, webchat, email, web callbacks), running massive outbound dialing campaigns, and makes all call center operations visible for management. Voiptime Cloud Contact Center is a professional calling solution for outbound and inbound calls. It’s a plug-and-play software that immediately increases the productivity of your call center department. With the help of our solution you are able to: - Automate lead prospecting and have 4x more live conversations daily; - Increase the agent occupancy up to 80-90% with the help of the fastest Predictive dialer; - Smooth out the peaks of calls by... (read more) |
Thousands of sexist AI bots could be coming. Here’s how we can stop them. | May 11, 2018 |
LivePerson in the news: the death of websites, women in tech, and bots for banks | March 23, 2018 |
What the F*ck: How Polite Are U.S. Consumers to Customer Care Professionals? | July 20, 2017 |
The Key To Leveraging Hybrid Chatbots | June 27, 2017 |
How Messaging Is Transforming the Customer Experience | May 9, 2017 |
How to Choose the Best Customer Care Technology | March 8, 2017 |
Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Customer Care Team: 5 Crucial Steps | December 9, 2016 |
13 Brands Disrupting the Customer Experience | September 8, 2016 |
Sage One: Driven by Metrics, Focused on the Consumer [Webinar] | August 23, 2016 |
8 Ways to Make Your Customers Smile | July 27, 2016 |
CCW TV PROGRAMMING
NOW PLAYING
Starting on the hour every hour today
Coming up this Week
I am checking out all the amazing and daily updated content on ContactCenterWorld.com and networking with professionals worldwide
Send To Friends Post On My Wall