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3 key customer service trends for 2018

Vonage

Three years ago, Gartner predicted that more than half of businesses would implement significant changes to improve customer experience by 2018. The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. trillion in the U.S.,

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

How will companies that have embraced the cloud for the contact center and sales applications across their businesses continue to benefit in 2018 and beyond? Two topics come to mind: participating fully in corporate digital transformation initiatives and investigating uses of artificial intelligence in customer care. Plan to join us!

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Your Live Chat Should Create Customer Convenience Not Dissatisfaction

Customer Bliss

“More and more customers are willing to use live chat when contacting brands, but their general satisfaction rate has gone down slightly.” This is a finding from the recently released LiveChat Customer Service Report 2018 , comparing results from 2017 to 2016. You need a strategy in place based off your customer journey.

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15 CX Experts Talk about the Future and Challenges of Customer Experience in 2018 [part 1] 

Lumoa

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. How to overcome those challenges?

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences

Kayako

I got my answer in the end (and my refund), but it wasn’t an ideal way to spend the first hour of my Sunday morning or my first customer service transaction this year that stressed out. Which brings me neatly toward 2018’s customer service trends: Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences.

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2017 Is Out, 2018 Is In – What Will Customer Service Look Like This Year?

Comm100

Now that 2017 is out of the picture, what can we expect customer service to look like in 2018? The question isn’t new – after all, customer service is always changing. That is why reducing customer effort was voted the number one priority for contact centers in 2018. Introduction.