Advantage Communications

MARCH 10, 2020

If your company manages its customer service strategy in house, you’ll probably know just how difficult it is to keep staff motivated and engaged while at the same time ensuring you hit important metrics and efficiencies.

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delighted

MARCH 9, 2021

Exceptional customer service turns new customers into promoters and promoters into returning loyalists. Let’s take a look at additional data behind why improving customer service should always be a foundational business goal. We’ll also provide some tips on building an impeccable customer service strategy.

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Win the Customer

MARCH 12, 2014

How do you make your customers stay with you for the long haul? Through the magic of customer service. Customer Service' These 4 tips make sure you''re sticking to what works.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a plan that’s really not put to use. In this video, I’ll discuss five common pitfalls when developing strategies.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Are you still managing your inbound call center in-house? In this article, you’ll find out when exactly should you outsource your inbound call center and how to do it right. When to outsource your inbound call center. The main role of an inbound call center is to provide quality customer service.

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8x8

MAY 23, 2018

This blog post is part of a series focusing on improving the customer experiences. . A software application will only get you so far when building an effective customer engagement management strategy. But technology will only get you so far in your quest to provide great customer service. Tim Richter.

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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The Concept of GigCX: Freelance customer service agents. Why Customer Service is adopting the Gig Model.

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Advantage Communications

APRIL 1, 2020

There are a number of reasons why an organization would outsource their customer service strategy to a world-class contact center. In fact, companies that do so will realize a huge number of benefits from a call center partnership.

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Magellan Solutions

APRIL 20, 2016

If you’re an owner of a startup or a small/medium-sized business (SMB), chances are, you’ve already heard from your fellow businessmen or read from published articles that call center outsourcing is a tested and proven way of acquiring cost-savings on certain business processes. Interested in call center outsourcing?

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Advantage Communications

JULY 13, 2021

New customer service strategies and innovative contact center technologies are changing the game when it comes to improving the customer experience (CX) and achieving new call center efficiencies.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 4, 2016

One of the places bots are likely to make a big splash is customer service. For better or worse, the bot has made its debut but what effect will bots have on call center jobs? To answer this question, we need to take a few steps back and examine the history of innovations in customer service.

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Advantage Communications

MAY 27, 2019

The current business market is a battleground for customers, and your company must ensure it has superior customer service and a world-class customer experience (CX) if it is to succeed. This is far from easy, and that’s why many turn to the expertise of an outsourced call center.

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2016

All this is great, but how does that play with customer service? Many companies use the Net Promoter Score® (NPS) to convert customers’ qualitative reactions into actionable data. In this post, we’ll explore NPS generally and its specific application to call centers. NPS in the Call Center.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Call center agents are the backbone of many companies’ customer service strategies. And yet, sometimes being a call center agent can feel like a thankless job. Ensuring the high morale of your call center agents is absolutely essential to running a successful call center and to reduce agent attrition.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a … Continue reading → The post Customer Service Strategy: Avoid Common Pitfalls appeared first on Brad Cleveland. .” He makes a great point.

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TechSee

APRIL 4, 2023

While searching on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) site on the term “customer service”, the phrase “act as if you like your customer” comes up. Basically, this is the same idea as “treat the customer as a friend”. The number one reason for this is because it saves them and their customers time.

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Interactions

APRIL 16, 2024

How Can the Bar be Raised to Surpass Customer Expectations? A dedication to understanding your customers ensures that every interaction is personalized and purposeful, alleviating the pain of lengthy wait times and ensuring each conversation is met with effective, personalized assistance.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. They demand highly convenient and fast service. According to a report by Pew Research Center , 85% of Millennials say they use social media.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Once you decide to engage in social media customer service, the next step is coming up with an effective strategy for implementing it. Should it be customer service? If you want a well-rounded, capable, and effective social media customer care team, then the answer is all of the above. Introduction.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 16, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 16 Great Customer Service Tips and Examples by Tom Coombe. Small Business Trends) Customer service in the U.S. Small Business Trends) Customer service in the U.S. I love the GIF’s!

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Prabhjot Singh at Knowmax , a company that empowers customer experience teams to improve engagement through AI-powered knowledge management. He talks about the trends that customer service and experience professionals can expect for the remaining months of 2023.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Developing strategies shouldn’t be an overly academic or formal exercise, with the result being a … Continue reading → The post Customer Service Strategy: Avoid Common Pitfalls appeared first on Brad Cleveland. .” He makes a great point.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). Most businesses today use technology to meet their customers’ needs. This comes in the form of streamlining processes, self-service customer support solutions and more. But what about the employees’ needs? Make it easy.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s never been more important to understand your customers and what they value. It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often, companies use analytics and dashboards to optimize programs, create custom reports, understand team workflows, analyze different trends, and keep the team focussed and happy. With all of these items to monitor, it’s easy to forget to prioritize your customer’s journey. . How can you monitor your customer experience?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Lego Customers Lose Millions of Pieces a Year. Magazine) Lego Group knows something about talking to its customers, and not just because it has a few creative employees. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Understanding what customers want is essential to building an effective customer service strategy. In turn, effective strategy will help you meet or exceed those expectations. Customer expectations evolve and sometimes that happens very quickly.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Is there a secret to ensuring that your customer service strategy is effective? I’ve observed four key factors that you can use to take inventory and get a good sense … Continue reading → The post Gauge the Effectiveness of Your Customer Service Strategy appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This week we feature an article from Veronika Filipkova, a professional content editor and Chief Customer Officer at SupportYourApp. She shares different channels and strategies for creating the most convient customer support experience for your customers. Firms today should focus on providing top-notch service.

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Magellan Solutions

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Whether you hire in-house customer support for inbound or outbound contact center services or pay for outsourced IT call center services , you are paying each agent’s hourly rate, salary, training, and perks. . Outsourced Call Center Pricing. Calls’ Duration. Support Level.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 23, 2021

He shares customer service best practices that successful brands use to help their customers on social media. Another intuitive and frankly underutilized way brands can use social media is for addressing customer service inquiries. . Why use social media as a customer service channel? .

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2022

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. He shares the best practices for improvement can make a huge difference to your first call resolution rate. .

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Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2021

And for BPOs, it is time to move on from traditional call centers. Autonomous Omnichannel is slowly taking over telemarketing services in the Philippines and it is receiving positive response from entrepreneurs. What is Autonomous Omnichannel Services? But is moving to a more automated approach beneficial to SMEs?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 29, 2021

Daunting as it may appear, keeping your customers happy is an attainable goal — when you put your mind to it. Following best practices and applying hacks has proven fruitful for a lot of contact centers. You can do the same and improve your customers’ experience. Get to know the customer personally. Invest in your agents.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Is there a secret to ensuring that your customer service strategy is effective? I’ve observed four key factors that you can use to take inventory and get a good sense of how well your strategy is performing. Are there common denominators among organizations getting the best results?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Ensuring that your organization is making required investments is an essential step in developing your customer service strategy. In my recent LinkedIn … Continue reading → The post Make the Required Investments to Support Your Customer Service Strategy appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Advantage Communications

AUGUST 14, 2019

In this blog we often talk about the innovative omnichannel technology that a modern outsourced call center will bring to your organization, and how those technologies will help your company realize significant benefits to your customer service strategy.

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