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5 Ways Support Teams Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Holiday Rush
GetFeedback
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
How to provide the best customer service and support during this unprecedented holiday season. Guides
Customer Service Related Topics 
Millennial Generation Customer Service – The Ultimate Guide
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. Key preferences to consider in Millennial generation customer service: Text me, I don’t like to talk: Millennials prefer to communicate over text messaging and rarely make phone calls. They demand highly convenient and fast service. Self-service platforms. Know your customer.
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The Shortest Customer Service Keynote Speech Ever!
Shep Hyken
JULY 21, 2021
In my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , I share a story about the shortest customer service keynote speech I’ve ever delivered. The shortest customer service speech ever …. “BE I’ve written about today’s topic before.
Customer Service Trends 2020
TechSee
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Companies now know that customer experience is the key competitive differentiator. Their customers are more likely to make repeat purchases, to try additional products or services, and to recommend the brand to family and friends. Computer Vision-powered self-service.
Customer Engagement 2021: Why the Digital Journey Changes Everything & How to Keep Up
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Digital omni-channel customer service. Haven’t heard of it yet? Your competitors probably have. This guide will answer all your digital omni-channel questions and help you to structure your digital customer journey around the needs and preferences of today’s consumers.
Social Media is Bad for Customer Service
Bill Quiseng
APRIL 18, 2021
Social media is bad for customer service. Whether ranting or raving, customers are telling stories online about businesses whether those businesses are listening or not. But I am not against monitoring social media or using it as a responsive customer service channel.
The Gig Economy is Paving the Way for Agile Customer Service
TechSee
MAY 4, 2021
These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services. Brands and retailers have begun leveraging gig workers to ensure high-quality customer experiences while only staffing and paying for the actual work needed. The Gig Economy – Work On-Demand.
Three Steps to Proactive Customer Service
Bill Quiseng
MAY 2, 2021
Too often, businesses focus solely on the negative feedback from their customer surveys in CSI fashion, identifying the pain points and taking the steps to eliminate them. Here are three steps you can take to move from reactive to proactive customer service.
Best places for customer service certification & training
GetFeedback
MAY 12, 2021
Learn why earning a customer service certification will benefit your business and find organizations offering training and certifications. Guides
Live Chat Customer Service: Top 5 Challenges
GetFeedback
JANUARY 7, 2019
Live chat customer service has become an expectation to the modern customer—more than half of all customers prefer chatting with someone in real time via chat rather than picking up their phone. While live chat is the perfect addition to any customer service program, it doesn’t come without its challenges. Here are the top 5 pain points associated with instituting a live chat customer service program and how to overcome them.
Mastering Omnichannel CX: A Success Guide
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Companies with strong omnichannel strategies retain 56% more customers than those without them. Read this guide to learn what omnichannel customer service is, if it’s right for your organization, and how to make it successful so you can get a (very large) step ahead of your competitors.
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4 Reasons why your Customer Service Needs to be a Profit Generator
TechSee
APRIL 13, 2021
Is customer service a cost center or a profit center? The traditional outlook on customer service. A cost center is a function or department – like customer service – that costs your business money to operate but doesn’t actively generate revenue.
How Visual Transformation Will Revolutionize Customer Service
TechSee
MARCH 10, 2021
This remote and digital-first world has made service organizations rethink how to engage with customers. Remote visual engagement goes way beyond just ‘seeing what your customer sees’ – it’s an enabler and connector for digital transformation.
10 Customer Service Transformations That Can Overhaul Your Customer Experience
Micah Solomon
OCTOBER 11, 2018
The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. Last week, I suggested quick wins that could improve your customer service and customer experience. Superior customer service depends on superior customer-facing employees; here’s an article of mine on how to get them.
Use Voice of Customer (VOC) Data to Improve Customer Service
GetFeedback
JANUARY 3, 2019
A Voice of Customer (VOC) program aims to gather and analyze customer insights, allowing you to identify trends and strategies to improve customer experience and deliver positive business outcomes. In simpler terms, VOC offers a way to give your customers a voice within your organization. Today, we’re sharing how you can leverage VOC data to improve customer service. Understand Voice of Customer capture methods. Customer Service How To
The Employee Factor - Perfecting Your CX From Within
Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates
Too often, organizations and their CX experts only look at the company's relationship with the customer to look for improvement. While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. It's time to look within: your employees' relationships with each other, and with the company. This webinar will provide you with strategic tools that can be used to raise the bar of service throughout your organization.
Top 10 Customer Service Acronyms to Use Every Day
Steve DiGioia
MAY 17, 2021
Great customer service. That’s what our customers want and that’s what we wish to provide. In today’s post, I compiled my list of the top 10 customer service acronyms to use every day. It was about finding solutions for a customer and finding their pain points ”.
7 Amazing Cases of Outsource Customer Service Philippines
Magellan Solutions
JULY 5, 2021
Here are the list of businesses that outsource customer service Philippines and reap exceptional value. Outsource customer service Philippines caters to businesses worldwide from industry players to SMEs and startups. Thus decrease in customer satisfaction rate.
How to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season
GetFeedback
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
Simplifying CX YouTube series episode on how to manage customer service during COVID-19 holiday season. Videos
11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring
GetFeedback
AUGUST 16, 2018
Customer service has long been an area of focus for marketers and support specialists. After all, 67% of consumers list bad customer experience as one of the primary reasons for churning and 39% of consumers avoid vendors for over 2 years after having a negative experience. Businesses understand that great customer service isn’t optional–it can make or break a brand’s reputation. Customer Happiness Metrics. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Score.
Everyone Is Accountable and Responsible for a Great Customer Experience!
Speaker: Bryan Horn, Founder, CS Solutions
If you've ever called a bank, cable company, or organization that thinks it's "too big to fail", you've probably run the customer service gauntlet: you start off with a seemingly simple request, and you call the customer service line. Once the general service rep hands you off, you're transferred to every department known to man. Further and further down the rabbit hole you fall, and each time you're transferred, the waiting room music plays longer and longer, and the person at the end of the line knows less and less about you and your problems. After the call, you've probably popped a blood vessel. Join Bryan Horn, author of The Customer Service Revolution and founder of CS Solutions, and learn how to master the warm handoff. Bryan will teach how to develop a culture of accountability so that all members of the organization are equipped to handle customer concerns and offer quick resolutions.
New Research: Customer Service Trends and Best Practices
GetFeedback
MAY 8, 2019
Customer service is undoubtedly a key player in any company’s customer experience (CX) program. It’s the necessary companion to a great product or service —in fact, 80% of customers say that the experience a company provides is as important as its products or services. Given its significance, we conducted a global study to identify the latest customer service trends and best practices. Customer Service
5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 6-28-2021
Shep Hyken
JUNE 28, 2021
Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. America’s Best Customer Service Companies by Newsweek. My Comment: We start off this week with Newsweek’s list of America’s BEST customer service companies.
What is the difference between customer care and customer service?
GetFeedback
MAY 18, 2021
An overview of customer care the role it plays in the overall customer experience. Articles
What’s Trending in Customer Service Right Now?
BlueOcean
JULY 8, 2020
In the world of customer service, every industry has had their own unique challenges this year, and it’s clear that most companies have had to pivot in their approach. Read on for more insight on what’s trending in customer service. How about your customers?
Improving the Agent Experience: Top 6 CSR Complaints & How Omnichannel Solves Them
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Your customer service agents are the voice of your brand and have a huge impact on every stage of the customer journey – and yet the agent experience is still often overlooked. Find out the top 6 CSR complaints at work and how you can resolve these issues with an omnichannel customer service platform.
Thanksgiving Week Special: A Recipe for Amazing Customer Service
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Always thinking about how everything in life ties to customer service, I wondered, “What is a good recipe for customer service?” Leadership defines the customer service and CX vision for everyone to follow.
Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R. Jones
BlueOcean
JUNE 26, 2018
When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. We sat down with Paul to discuss his views on best practices for creating incredible customer service. Do you have a “process” for consistently creating exceptional service experiences?
Customer service trends for 2021: Top analyst predictions
TechSee
JANUARY 26, 2021
Challenged by continuing uncertainty and perhaps uncharted territory, it has never been harder to predict what lies ahead in the world of consumer trends and customer service. Customer service trends: Top predictions for 2021. Emerging customer service trends for 2021.
Five Low-Cost Ways To Improve Your Customer Service And Customer Experience
Micah Solomon
OCTOBER 9, 2018
The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. In honor of National Small Business Week ( #SmallBusinessWeek ), here are five highly effective, low- or no-cost ways to amp up the quality of your customer service experience. Train your employees to handle unhappy customers–and to win them back when things go wrong.
The 5 Categories That Rule Virtual Agents
Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, Mark Landry, VP Product, Marilyn Cassedy, Director of Customer Success, SmartAction
It just so happens that whenever we design and deploy a new AI-powered virtual agent over voice, the self-service application invariably falls into one of 5 distinct categories. This has been true for more than a hundred clients encompassing hundreds of use cases across 12 industries. Having a keen awareness of where or how AI fits in your contact center for a great CX and ROI begins with understanding how to broadly classify your interactions. If it fits into one of these 5 categories, a live human agent should never handle it. Join Brian Morin, Mark Landry, and Marilyn Cassedy of SmartAction, and learn how to streamline your customer service.
7 Industries That Need To Outsource Customer Services in 2021
Magellan Solutions
JULY 14, 2021
Other industries can outsource customer service and yield all of its benefits as well. When we talk about customer support outsourcing , most businesses will immediately think of big industries such as Information Technology and Finance. 3D Designing Service. IT Services.
Build a Customer Service Survey That Will Engage Your Customers
GetFeedback
JUNE 3, 2019
While people feel compelled to be involved in the decision-making process of a company, and love to feel like their opinion makes a difference, the fact still stands: people don’t always want to complete customer service surveys. In fact, 72% of people feel like taking surveys interferes with their day-to-day use of a service, and 80% of them abandon taking a survey part of the way through. Know your customers . Get better service by telling us how we can improve.
National Customer Service Week 2021!
Myra Golden Media
JUNE 29, 2021
Mark your Calendars for October 4 – 8, 2021, because we’re celebrating National Customer Service Week! This year’s theme is, Celebrating the Heart of Service. Customer Experience Design
Customer Service Versus Customer Experience … What’s the Difference?
Shep Hyken
JULY 7, 2021
It is one of the most common questions I’m asked in interviews: What’s the difference between customer service and customer experience (also known as CX)? The example I used was how Home Shopping Network (HSN) incorporated gamification into the customer experience.
Your Guide to Boosting ROI Through Customer Service
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Today’s most successful brands understand how great customer support can grow their bottom line. Having provided outsourced customer support to some of the world’s top brands, we know what works, and now we’re sharing that with you.
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