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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 8, 2021

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Key 2020 holiday shopping takeaways: It’s imperative to adapt as customer expectations evolve by Tara Bartley and Ashitha Bhanu. My Comment: 2020 is behind us, but the lessons we learned, as a result, should not be forgotten. It’s the same in business. Love (in the metaphorical sense) and appreciate your customers year-round.

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Seven CX Tips to Help Weather the 2021 Holiday Season ‘Everything Shortage’

CSM Magazine

In fact, 2021 is forecast to be one of the most treacherous holiday seasons since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Many newer technologies, like conversational AI chatbots and digital messaging platforms have been built to integrate with your existing CRM. The Great Resignation is also upon us. Tip #7: Plan Early for Next Year.

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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

Comm100

By meeting student expectations, live chat has allowed TRU to connect with more prospective and current students. Read the full story here – Thompson Rivers University Adopts Comm100 Live Chat & Chatbot Across 5 Departments 2. In 2020, COVID-19 restrictions meant that the open house couldn’t proceed as usual.

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How to Stay Close to Customers While Working From Home

CSM Magazine

The assembled experts reported that, at the end of March 2020, they had between 15% and 50% of contact centre colleagues working from home and that this had caused particular challenges for customer service colleagues working overseas. However, finely-tuned conversational systems can.”. However, getting it wrong will alienate users.

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There’s No I in Team, but What About AI?

CSM Magazine

A Gartner report, sponsored by Tealium: ‘ 100 data and analytics predictions for 2021 ‘ forecasts that ‘By 2019 more than 10% of IT hires in customer service will mostly write scripts for bot interactions’ and ‘By 2020, AI will disrupt the jobs of 1,000,000 phone-based customer support agents.’. Weathering the storm.

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The 9 Best Email Support Ticketing Systems 2020 – Reviews & Comparison

Comm100

For your customer support to be great (or even just functional) in 2020, you need the systems to back it up. We’ve also analyzed the most recent customer reviews from Capterra and Software Advice to give you a full picture of what each of these ticketing software providers has to offer in 2020. 4.7 / 5 (Capterra).

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A Complete Guide to Omnichannel Customer Service

Comm100

67% of consumers used social media for service-related needs in 2020, and this is growing. Chatbots: With a well-trained AI chatbot, organizations can automate up to 80% of their frontline customer support. Integrating a chatbot with omnichannel support also creates new ways to engage international applicants.