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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

Over time, as internet technology advanced and online communication became more sophisticated, live chat evolved to be integrated into various websites for purposes beyond customer support, including sales, lead generation, and general communication. This period also saw the adoption of customer support ticketing systems.

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Is Your Online Experience Your Customer’s Worst Nightmare?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

There is no case for your 2008 case study. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

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Elevate growth with a customer service chatbot

BirdEye

A much better solution is to use chatbots specifically designed to elevate the customer experience. A great example is an AI chatbot that takes on customer support duties via an organization’s mobile app, website, or social media channels. And they have radically transformed AI-powered chatbots for the better.

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Four Point Plan to get back to Business Post COVID19

Pink Guava

Yes, it will be a slow recovery of the economy with business models, customer demand everything having a reset. But there is always a silver lining after a doom, and history is the witness that every doom had been a change to start the NEW, be the dotcom, 2008 prime recession or the Great Depression of the 1920s.

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How COVID-19 has Driven Digital Retail

Kitewheel

In a difficult economy, it can be tempting to cut back on customer experience and marketing investments, but this may end up being more costly. In 2010, Harvard Business review completed a study of the 2008 recession and how it affected a number of companies. Social Media .

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

Lumoa

Live chat software is among the leading contact methods for online customers, with 46% of them preferring it over social media and email. Migration to the Cloud Buoyed by the COVID-19 outbreak, cloud migration dramatically increased during the steepest economic contraction since the 2008 financial crisis.

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Top 20 Books Every Customer Experience Professional Needs to Read Now

Chattermill

Zappos founder Tony Hsieh’s book is essential reading for all customer experience professionals. in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer success. 100 Practical Ways to Improve Customer Experience: Achieve End-to-End Customer Engagement in a Multichannel World by Martin Newman and Malcolm McDonald.