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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes.

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The Customer Care, Success, and Experience Continuum

Andrew Mcfarland

When asked to explain the difference between customer care, success, and experience I explain my perspective in terms of a continuum. Customer care (or service) relates to a company’s ability to respond appropriately to customer inquiries. When a customer raises.

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Designing Self-Service for Customer Success

COPC

Even with phone and email decreasing in popularity, the preference for self-service may not be growing as quickly as the customer care industry would hope. We can partially attribute the delay in growth to poor design, where customers experience more challenges than solutions.

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Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference?

ClearAction

Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference? Customer CareCustomer Relationship Management … Customer Experience — what’s the difference? Experiential marketing — events and campaigns that build customer advocacy. Lynn Hunsaker.

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How will the economic downturn affect Customer Success? Learn from three SaaS CEOs.

ChurnZero

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Customers will respect and trust you infinitely more when you’re upfront with them.

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Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer, With Amy Downs – CB32

Customer Bliss

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care. Episode Overview.

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Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference?

ClearAction

Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference? Customer CareCustomer Relationship Management … Customer Experience — what’s the difference? Experiential marketing — events and campaigns that build customer advocacy. Lynn Hunsaker.