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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of August 7, 2023

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25 Ways to Proactively Spot Your Customers’ Pain Points by Call Centre Helper Magazine (Call Centre Helper Magazine) When struggling to deal with customer demand, a lot of contact centres try to recruit more people. Happy and satisfied customers mean that you can maintain regular sales and profit, which can help you maintain success.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 6-13-2022

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(CustomerThink) Some of us are old enough to remember when subscriptions were limited to just sports clubs, newspapers, and magazines. It was originally established in London as a way to expand newspaper sales. In 2009 only 18% of the value of the top 100 brands was in subscriptions. This grew to 29% by 2018. Not anymore!

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

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Now more than any other time of year, e-Commerce becomes a more dominant force in companies’ sales, and subsequently, online customer experience. In fact, 2021 is forecast to be one of the most treacherous holiday seasons since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The Great Resignation is also upon us.

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7 Books You Need to Read to Ace Any Marketing Assignment

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The book was originally published in 2003 and re-released in 2009, but it stays relevant today as well. Amazon” also covers how this business and the rise of online sales affected the retail market. That’s despite the fact that Microsoft was the first firm to use smartphone technology.

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What Elephants and Customer Experiences Have in Common

CSM Magazine

We saw this in the last big recession spanning 2007-2009. This is the best way to influence brand perception, win sales, and build longer-term loyalty. As we enter this period of economic uncertainty, there is a growing concern that organisations will hunker down and focus solely on cost-cutting tactics and operational efficiency.

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How Positive Customer Reviews Can Help Grow Your Business

CSM Magazine

In fact, sales agents are targeted not just on selling suitable life insurance policies but also hitting quality assurance levels and so a negative Google review could be very damaging. They have sold more than 400,000 life insurance policies since launching in 2009 and are now the UK’s largest life insurance brokerage.

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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

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There’s a reason for that: Retail sales hit a record of $6 trillion in 2018, according to the U.S. It’s also a 50% increase from 2009’s record low of $4.06 Department store sales rose by 1.2%. Department store sales were down 5.5% Department store sales were down 5.5% Their sales were up 14.2%