Kayako

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In today’s world, many companies are focusing on improving customer relationship management, and rightly so. Getting customer service right isn’t easy. New truth: You are competing with the last best experience your customer had.” Are you ready to deliver Friction-Free Customer Service?

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Technology Self Service Tips Customer Service 156

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We’ve learned a lot during the past 12 months: what restaurants deliver, what six feet actually looks like, what makes up a “home office.” We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Along the way, we learned a lot about the obstacles customers and agents face today.

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Call Center Self Service Contact Center Case Study 246

TechSee

MARCH 11, 2024

In this post, we will provide some core concepts you will need to understand the Conversational AI landscape better and, ideally, find the right Conversational AI for CX partner for your particular needs. Simply put, Conversational AI enables businesses to harness innovations like Generative AI to automate or augment customer interactions.

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Chatbots Self Service Culture Virtual Agent 124

Horizon CX

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Frontline Experience Gap – Competence, Supervision, and Data by Scott Gilbey “I help identify customer and employee experience gaps that adversely impact the frontline. Experience improves and so does P&L. A Service Desk Associate is assigned to a checkout register for the first time.

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Net Promoter Score Survey System Retail 130

Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 4, 2021

But what does management want from you? For many in the customer service industry, there is little room for advancement and few opportunities to make “change” – a change that is meaningful, impactful, and which enhances the customer experience. What Do Managers Want From Their Employees?

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 11, 2024

Listen to the podcast: One of the things I talk about a lot with clients is customer emotions. The reason I do is because over half of any experience is highly influenced by customer emotions, which, among other things, motivate customers to act. It’s our job to determine what it is. Both are fair questions.

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Retently

APRIL 5, 2024

What sets an exceptional retail customer experience apart? Because in a market brimming with choices, the way customers feel about your business can set you apart. A memorable retail customer experience leads to higher satisfaction, repeat business, and word-of-mouth recommendations.

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Retail Engagement Strategy Customer Experience 78

Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into processes is top of mind for business leaders and managers in all industries and across all job functions. Generative AI technologies truly have the power to change how we work and our ability to deliver a stellar customer experience (CX). What Is Contact Center AI?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 20, 2020

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. .

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Playvox

MARCH 5, 2024

This definitely applies to customer needs and preferences, and contact centers are constantly striving to stay one step ahead of evolving customer requirements. A desire for instant-access self-service options is shifting how customers want to engage. One thing that’s certain is change.

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Self Service Management Contact Center Effort Score 78

Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. More importantly, you need an organizational strategy that ensures your customers don’t just come to you but stay, thrive, and become your biggest promoters.

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Retently

MARCH 26, 2024

Key Takeaways: The right tool is the one that aligns seamlessly with your objectives. By taking a thoughtful and thorough approach to the selection process, you’re setting the ground for richer insights, better decisions, and a more connected relationship with your customers and employees. Why Look Beyond Qualtrics?

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Survey Multi-Channel Effort Score Analysis 78

BirdEye

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Your customers are calling — don’t leave them hanging. Therefore, choosing the right phone system is critical for any small business. It’s not just about making calls; it’s about ensuring seamless communication, enhancing customer service, and supporting your business’s growth. Riiing, riiing.

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Kustomer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you’re a CX leader running an enterprise-level organization, you need help desk software that goes beyond just automating basic support processes and managing tickets. So, how do you figure out which enterprise help desk software is the right option? And that’s exactly what we did in this guide.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels. What Is Omnichannel Customer Experience?

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Satisfied customers build successful businesses. Every business works to keep its customers happy, provide the best service, and become the #1 choice for its customers. But this goal is getting harder and harder to accomplish in the increasingly competitive business landscape.

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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. I am not a millionaire.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2024

Listen to the podcast: You have a hidden impact on your return on investment for your customer experience management programs. This hidden impact kicks in between a given moment in your customer process and the customer behavior that results from it. She asked the right blokes about this one.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. However, some of the quickest ROI can come from the employee self-service (ESS) aspects of a WFM solution. What Is Employee Self-Service? Effective workforce management is essential for any business.

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Self Service Management Contact Center ROI 85

BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Customer experience is much more than just a buzzword, especially in the insurance industry. Clients are more likely to recommend a company that can guide them in choosing the right insurance product for them and their families. Zendesk reports that 50% of consumers will switch to a competitor after one bad experience.

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Method:CRM

MAY 1, 2023

You’ve gathered all the customer information you can dream of through your CRM system, but now what? How do you make sense of the CRM and customer experience data you’ve worked so hard to collect? Read on to learn more about how you can use your CRM and customer experience data to its fullest potential.

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CRM Customer Experience Self Service How To 93

Kustomer

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Zendesk is, without any doubt, a powerhouse customer service platform. After being acquired by a consortium of private equity firms for $10B, Zendesk is one of the most well-known customer service solutions on the market — but being popular doesn’t make it right for everyone. Want to fast forward?

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Omni-Channel Self Service Multi-Channel Knowledge Base 98

Team Support

JULY 25, 2023

As a customer support leader, you know how important it is for your customers to be serviced in a timely manner. So, your company invests in the training needed to ensure your agents know the product and can help the customer use it. The agent starts by answering a customer’s inquiry via chat.

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Self Service Chatbots Knowledge Base Poor Customer Service 98

AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is purpose-built to accelerate foundation model (FM) training, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in managing and optimizing a large training compute cluster. With the directory service, you can centrally maintain users and groups, and their permissions.

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Groups Software System Policies 74

BirdEye

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For businesses, customer feedback is the anchor to growth, improving customer experience , and increasing revenue. Through the power of AI and automation, businesses can revolutionize the ways they gather, analyze, and capitalize on customer feedback.

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Feedback Customer Journeys Effort Score Survey 111

BirdEye

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Imagine a bustling office brimming with potential, yet held back by missed calls, network glitches, and the consequent loss of potential customers. It’s a situation many businesses encounter and one that needs the best VoIP service to overcome. This is a massive loss for businesses and signifies a negative customer experience.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In a buyer’s market, customers have choices and can take their business elsewhere should they receive less-than-optimal products, service, and support. In a buyer’s market, what is the future of workforce engagement? How do you keep your best employees engaged, motivated, and empowered? What is Workforce Engagement?

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, local businesses face a pressing question: How can they stay relevant and meet escalating customer expectations? Let’s explore expert insights on how harnessing AI can transform customer engagement, operational efficiency, and more.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2022

Anyone who finds what they love to do at work, either through a passion, hobby, interest, a random job they end up loving, or some defining moment is lucky. Just out of college I started my career as a customer service expert. Just out of college I started my career as a customer service expert.

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Self Service Customer Service Customer Focused Customer Service Training 130

Team Support

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If the guitar metaphor isn’t working for you, this is exactly what it can be like for customers when you don’t offer self-service options. Self-service is the DIY of the digital epoch. 75% of customers believe it’s important for brands to offer a full self-service option.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 7, 2024

And we give them a lot of credit — over the years, Intercom has evolved into an innovative customer service software with all the bells and whistles, offering best in class tools like real-time chat support, proactive messaging, guided product tours, resolution bot, omnichannel support and tons of integrations. Completely unacceptable.”

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Omni-Channel Self Service e-support Knowledge Base 97

West Monroe

APRIL 9, 2024

With the ability to focus on the member experience and provide higher interest rates, credit unions can continue providing value despite ongoing uncertainty in the macroenvironment. What’s more, the decline in loan demand will continue to challenge overall profitability metrics for many banks.

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Self Service Trends Banking Financial 52

BirdEye

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This statistic shows that your customers are looking for you online. You must monitor what your customers say about you, respond to their remarks, and use their feedback to improve. In this blog, we’ll explain how to create a fool-proof restaurant reputation management process and build a 5-star online reputation.

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ClearAction

MAY 25, 2023

Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers. How do you get that?

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Leadership ROI 118

Help Scout

JUNE 8, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows incredible promise in 2021, but the experience of interacting with an AI chatbot is more like talking to a distracted toddler than it is to Tony Stark’s Jarvis. Still, using AI chatbots for customer service makes plenty of sense. A chatbot could do that before your team even gets notified.

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Chatbots Self Service Knowledge Base Tools 144

SurveySensum

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did you know that 52% of customers are ready to pay more if they receive exceptional customer service? Customer service is the backbone of any successful business. It’s what keeps customers happy and loyal. By collecting customer feedback ! How exactly?

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Metrics Self Service Customer Service Net Promoter Score 52