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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. We recently partnered with Bluewolf and Salesforce for a webinar on how today’s best service organizations are enabling those types of interactions, and the trends they will be focusing on in 2018.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

For example, many companies are seeing the benefits of deploying cloud contact center integrated with cloud CRM solutions to inside sales staff. 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? So, what comes next?

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We Want To Be Customer-Centric: Now What!?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

HOW exactly does a standard organization, built on the gospel of sales and customer acquisition, become customer-centric? Marketing and sales are the primary focus. Many dashboards and reports don’t mention or track anything connected to customers. They track sales, revenue, EBITDA, and profits, among other health measurements.

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The inspirational quotes of Dreamforce 2018

Vonage

After two fun, informative and action-packed days, it’s hard to believe we're already halfway through Dreamforce 2018! And this year is no different, as another host of visionary speakers are opening our eyes to industry trends and telling us how they use Salesforce to connect with their customers in new ways. Tweet this. Tweet this.

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Turning Your Contact Center into a Profit Center by Leveraging Chat

Speaker: Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai

Technology has allowed for more instant communications, creating a new opportunity for businesses to connect with customers. October 23th, 2018 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT. Live chat as a communication channel has significantly grown in recent years as the leading digital contact method, according to J.D

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What is More Important: A Good Product or a Good After-Sales Service?

GetFeedback

So, if you make them choose between a good product and a good after-sales service, you’re not on the right path. . Good products keep customers interested, but after-sales service keeps them loyal. And allowing your business to not address customers’ after-sale needs, you’re ruining the future of your brand.

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Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences

Kayako

Which brings me neatly toward 2018’s customer service trends: Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences. It means that support is respected as a profit-center in your company—as it should— and that engineering, marketing, and sales teams dip in with useful information to help customer support out.

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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.