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This Doesn’t Have to Keep You Up at Night: How to Seamlessly Transition Your Outsourced Customer Care Program

BlueOcean

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. Build your process and your plan with transparency and communication as the cornerstones on which all success will be built. Long Story Short: Outsourcing is a business of wins and losses.

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It’s time for a Customer Service Culture Transformation to Customer CARE

Bill Quiseng

Are we called to duty on the frontline battling customers? So shouldn’t customer service be customer care? We are the Customer CARE team. We CARE for each member of our team: We COMMUNICATE with each other. So satisfied customers don’t rave about you to others. Or even better ….

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60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of Today

BlueOcean

For more than two years, everyone worked to settle into new patterns of working and communicating, and we’re finally seeing a return to “normal.” If you’re faced with the decision to find a new customer care outsourcer in the post-pandemic era, now’s the time to dive in. What is your average tenure of salaried staff?

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When Good Isn’t Enough: Developing Customer Care that Exceeds Expectations

Interactions

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. Failing to invest in customer care risks customers seeking it elsewhere.

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5 Tough Customer Care RFP Questions in Today’s Hybrid World

BlueOcean

We’ve said it before and we’re not afraid to repeat it until the cows come home: using a boilerplate RFP in the process to find a new customer care outsourcer is a quick road to failure. You’re looking for a strategic partner who will interface with your customers day in and day out. That requires a custom RFP.

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Customer CARE is the New Marketing

Bill Quiseng

And satisfied customers won’t come back when they find something better or less expensive. So don’t just serve to sell your products or services to customers. And don’t just serve to satisfy customers. Serve to CARE. COMMUNICATE with each customer with a smile, eye contact, and polite interaction.

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Social Customer Care: What Every Marketer Needs to Know

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It’s easy to “set up” a social media presence for customers and then just sort of forget to maintain it. Social customer care is going to be with us forever. Why not get better at how you’re serving customers there? Social Customer Care: Best Practices for Major Engagement.