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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

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85% of Gen Z (those 25 and under) prefer chat or automated interactions for customer service over phone calls. In customer service, only live chat can offer the kind of responsive digital tools that students look for. Today’s students want fast and convenient support Students want digital support that is both convenient and fast.

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How Covid has Exacerbated the Customer Service Issue

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On top of all of this, it has created countless customer experience challenges which many organizations have been unable to meet. A recent study by the UK Institute of Customer Service found that complaints about poor customer service are at their highest levels since 2009. Covid customer experience challenges.

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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. Waiting times. Can Tech Keep Customers Close While Colleagues Work Remotely?

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4 customer-based strategies health care can learn from retail

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Enter: The kings of customer-centric service, interaction and engagement—retail brands. The health care industry has frequently lagged behind other industries in terms of technology and customer service developments. From web traffic to social media, retail brands regularly squeeze out every bit of customer data possible.

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What Do Companies With Low Net Promoter Score Have in Common?

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You can also learn a surprising amount of tactics and strategies by studying the opposite end of the scale – the world’s least successful companies, from a churn perspective – to compare their common weaknesses and find out what makes their customers so unlikely to recommend them to their peers.

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Health care mergers and acquisitions: Why patients and employees should come first

Alida

Between 2009 and 2013, annual hospital deals have increased 14 percent. Engage with your patients throughout the process to benchmark satisfaction metrics and get a better understanding of its impact to wait times, consumer perception and other factors of patient care. The Affordable Care Act in the U.S.,

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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

CSM Magazine

Every year organizations invest millions to deliver a high-quality customer experience (CX) during their seasonal periods. It’s also a 50% increase from 2009’s record low of $4.06 Time and time again, organizations are losing customers to the black hole of wait times and inefficient processes during their seasonal bumps.