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The social media dilemma: how to get the most dangerous customer service channel right

Vonage

At NewVoiceMedia, we’ve recently updated our Serial Switchers report and found that UK businesses are collectively losing £11 billion per year through poor customer service. While the cost of bad service might seem huge, it’s actually 1.2 billion less than in 2013.

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How Independent Retailers Can Enhance Digital Customer Experiences

Win the Customer

The cost of poor customer service is going up, rising from $41 billion lost in 2013 to $62 billion in 2015 , according to research reported by NewVoiceMedia. Customers today want to feel like the brands they support through their purchases are actually invested in them, too. Inject a Personal Touch.

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Is customer service investment actually delivering?

Eptica

Author: Pauline Ashenden Despite the rising importance of customer service on both sides of the Atlantic, the UK is widely seen as lagging the United States when it comes to the experience that companies deliver. A good example of the benefits of overhauling customer service is budget airline Ryanair. The result?

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10 Warning Signs That Your Customer Service Sucks

Comm100

Despite these advantages, social media is not the preferred method of contacting a company for customer service, and in fact, has been on the decline in preference since its peak in 2013. Make your customer service options plentiful and easily accessible, and avoid small problems from boiling over into all-out disasters.

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Tortoise or Hare – Which One Best Describes Your Contact Center?

CSM Magazine

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. Empower agents – through self-service to control their own schedules, select breaks and lunches, swap shifts and request time off with immediate feedback from their manager.

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ROI of Social Customer Service: How to Calculate It and Create a Strong Business Case

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet The phrase “customer service is the new marketing” has gained popularity with brands realizing that poor customer service takes current, and even potential customers, out of the marketing funnel. for every dollar that it invested in social customer care. Think about it.

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Case study: Tesco and a consumer champion

Helen Dewdney

It was a post about poor customer service and entitled Tesco – Phillip Clarke is no Sir Terry Leahy. Posts included finding insects in rice and taking Tesco to court in 2013. Tesco was reported as having given £5,000 to charity and put training in place and that was it. The post was the first of many about Tesco.