NICE inContact

AUGUST 23, 2016

Agents have direct contact with many customers every day and have the best grasp on their needs. Listening to their feedback regarding customers’ needs, and seriously considering their input, makes Agents feel valued and has a positive impact on their performance. This article was originally published June 21, 2016 on ICMI.

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Eptica

JULY 27, 2016

Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Is customer service investment actually delivering? Published on: July 27, 2016. Making conversations count Despite what many consumers may believe, poor service is not normally deliberate. What makes their jobs more difficult, and consequently enrages customers?

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Eptica

APRIL 18, 2016

Date: Monday, April 18, 2016 Hanging on for telecoms customer service. Published on: April 18, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past telecoms has gained a reputation for poor customer service. Showing a lack of joined up thinking the fastest company on email was slowest on Facebook.

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Provide Support

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

10 Do’s and Don’ts of Excellent Customer Service. These days, the phrases “go above and beyond for the best customer service experience”, “the customer is always right” and “the customer is king” have become one of the most cliched and repeated in marketing. Read more.

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 14, 2016

A quote from well-known customer service and customer experience advocate Bill Quiseng encourages organizations to “work as hard to keep a customer as you do to find a new one.” Think of the additional customers and lifetime value that could be delivered through a little extra attention to retention.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Customer expectations are changing and growing just as rapidly as the channels and technology consumers are empowered with to engage, encouraging (if not demanding) that brands and organizations embrace a strategy of non-stop, customer-centric adaptation. 2015 Aspect Consumer Experience Survey ).

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Date: Friday, September 9, 2016 Can you afford to lose half your customers? Published on: September 09, 2016. Author: Neil Cox Recent research highlighted by customer service guru Shep Hyken demonstrates the importance of delivering an experience that meets the needs of your customers.

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Eptica

MARCH 31, 2016

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016 Websites lead the way for UK customer service. Published on: March 31, 2016. Being able to find answers to their questions quickly is therefore a vital part of the customer experience. Self-service is an attractive channel to both the public and businesses.

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Eptica

MARCH 23, 2016

Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Bridging the gap between purchase and service. Published on: March 23, 2016. However, a new study by Bruce Temkin of the Temkin Group shows that this focus on service doesn’t transfer across to subsequent customer service interactions.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Date: Friday, September 16, 2016 Balancing investment between digital and traditional customer service. Published on: September 16, 2016. It found that you need to deliver high levels of service on all channels if you want to win and retain customers.

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Retently

OCTOBER 19, 2018

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? But taking customer satisfaction lightly can be dangerous too. Some studies from 2016 suggest that poor customer service costs businesses up to $62 million per year. trillion per year when their customers leave – and that’s only in the US.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

So why then would government care about providing good customer service? Forrester Research recently released its 2016 Customer Experience Index , and once again government still finished last across the 21 industries, with ratings falling between “very poor” to “ok.”

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Kayako

JANUARY 7, 2016

We looked back with our best posts from the customer support community in 2015, now we’re looking forward with predictions for 2016. We’ve asked support pros from Kayako and beyond what they think the biggest trends in customer support will be in the next 12 months. Customers expect support to be available 24/7.

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Helen Dewdney

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It was a post about poor customer service and entitled Tesco – Phillip Clarke is no Sir Terry Leahy. Helen won the case and shared the experience on her blog which was later shared in national media. So I sat with her in a store in Hertfordshire and went through all the issues she can see as a Tesco customer.

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Tricia Morris

JULY 25, 2016

Delighting customers is not the key to consistently satisfying customer service. But customers don’t expect (or evenly necessarily want) to be delighted every time they engage for customer service. According to the survey here are consumers’ top four customer frustrations: 1.

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 17, 2020

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · What a customer first strategy means today. But with people having changed their purchasing habits and perspectives due to lockdown, this seems the perfect time to reconsider your customer-first strategy. A customer-first strategy is not so hard. Just think customer first in everything you do.

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Provide Support

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A guide to customer service nirvana. Whether we are talking about customer service or any other aspect of life, the first step in that direction is to recognize the fact the some things are out of balance now. It seems that most companies are aware of the importance of responding to customer service requests quickly.

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C3Centricity

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Every few days there seems to be another customer service disaster that fills the newspapers and goes viral on social media. These usually happen when an organisation does not adopt a customer first strategy. Almost every single organisation, big or small, recognises the importance of their customers. Source: CEI Survey).

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Joe Rawlinson

JULY 10, 2019

The result of a business is a satisfied customer.” We have come a long way since the first industrial revolution and are now bursting with new products and services in crowded markets regularly. Owing to the choice overload, a business is always at risk of losing its customers for some reason or the other. Huffpost ).

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Comm100

JUNE 13, 2018

Preparing for the shopping season ahead of time can help e-commerce vendors and retailers of all industries convert more browsers into buyers, improve customer satisfaction levels, and dodge inconvenient (and avoidable) operational hassles. Are there any reoccurring problems that customers are having with their orders?

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Tricia Morris

OCTOBER 9, 2015

It’s frightening to think just how much poor customer service can impact the customer experience and the overall reputation and bottom lines of brands and organizations. On the other hand, satisfying customer service has scary-good results, increasing customer acquisition, retention, brand loyalty and advocacy.

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Bold360

DECEMBER 4, 2016

According to Zendesk’s 2014 Benchmark report , customer service rankings dropped to their lowest during the holiday season, with the travel industry experiencing the largest -7 point drop, the most drastic in comparison to all other industries. Integrate a qualitative automated customer self-service solution.

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 28, 2016

Today’s retail customer is always shopping around – in store, online, on the phone. For customers, expectations are up. Yet, despite these increasing expectations, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , customer satisfaction is on the decline from a survey high set two years ago. Are We There Yet?

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Many companies that claim to offer good customer service in reality are grounded in an operations’ mentality with rules and policies that allow for little flexibility, preventing them from rising above anything more than average or satisfactory. The companies that really understand customer service have a different focus.

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Provide Support

JUNE 2, 2016

In today’s digital, fast-paced world customer expectations and the rules of customer engagement are rapidly changing. What used to be acceptable and satisfactory in customer service a while ago is no longer enough. And, not surprisingly, they will no longer tolerate poor customer service. Read more.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Silos may be a great way to store grain, but if you apply this idea to the organization of people, it can damage customer experience. What is avoidable, however, is “silo mentality,” in which departments are isolated, proprietary, and competitive, and which can have a negative impact on customer experience.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The customer/company relationship is just that, a relationship. On one hand, customers want to feel that they have a close, unique, real relationship with your brand. When a customer calls, they’re most often looking for help and want the quickest resolution to their problem with as little friction as possible.

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Tricia Morris

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lessons from the holiday classic can be applied to almost any topic, in this case, customer service: 1. Your Customer Service Past Cannot Be Changed. A brand or organization’s customer service past cannot be changed, no matter how some wish it could. There is No Time Like the Customer Service Present. . “He

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