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The Problem with Self Service

Beyond Philosophy

People like the convenience of self-service. More and more of your Customers believe access to self-service options is essential to their relationship with your business. Knowing this, it is critical that you plan your self-service options well. Clearly, more Customers want self-service options.

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How to Manage (and Reduce) Call Center Call Volume

Stella Connect

Having strategies in place to be able to effectively manage and reduce call center call volume and wait times for customers is key to ensuring customer satisfaction (CSAT) and agent retention. . 2: Invest in self-service options. Take the case of travel giant Expedia.

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Is Your Customer Service Department a “Factory of Sadness”?

Customer Bliss

This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. In fact, CEB data shows that 81 percent of customers today will use self-service channels first before reaching out to a company to speak to a customer service rep live. Customer satisfaction has been in a freefall for four years running.

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Self to Assisted Customer Service: Are You Passing or Dropping the Baton?

Tricia Morris

For the first time in the history of Forrester Research’s North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life Cycle Survey , consumers now say they are using self-service FAQ pages on a company’s website for customer service more often than speaking with a live agent on the phone.

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What Is a Knowledge Base and Why Is It Useful?

Comm100

As companies everywhere see growing customer demand for self-service functionality in addition to their core service or support channels, knowledge bases play a large part in helping organizations to meet this need. Forrester has found that FAQ page use is on the rise, increasing from 67% to 76% between 2012 and 2014.

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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

As a support for this proposition, It is also often hypothesized that consumers would spend more with companies providing better service. In this post, we’ll look at whether, and to what degree, this is true, false, or somewhere in between. and nine other countries. to improve.

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16 Statistics Shaping the Future of Customer Service

Tricia Morris

Here is a collection of 16 statistics shaping customer service for today and tomorrow: 1. 76% of consumers say they view customer service as the true test of how much a company values them. 60% of consumers have higher expectations for customer service now than they did just one year ago.