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How to Manage Customer Wait Time: The Best Tips From Great Companies

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth. 8 July 2018. 13 April 2020.

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2018 Holiday Shopping and 3 Trends Consumers Are Loving

Oracle

In fact, according to the 2018 Deloitte holiday shopping study, “57% of this year’s holiday dollars will go through online channels, with in-store capturing 36% of spending.” ” The online shopping experience is evolving in 2018, and retailers are competing for the savvy buyer’s attention with these 3 trends.

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This is What Exceptional Customer Service Looks Like In 2018

Comm100

It’s 2018, and customer expectations are changing faster than ever. Companies that couldn’t deliver are now either history or relics that remind us of another time – think the last Blockbuster. This blog post is not about the top customer service trends to watch out for in 2018. Organic Mobile Experiences Blur Channel Lines.

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4 Chatbot Customer Service Use Cases for Every Industry

Comm100

Canadian Blood Services (CBS) first launched Comm100 Live Chat on their website in 2018 to connect with digital-first customers that were being missed by traditional phone support. We’ve seen that customers today expect a response at any time of day, and this extends to wait times as well. Canadian Blood Services.

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Live Chat Benchmark Report Data 2019: CX efforts pay off as CSAT climbs

Comm100

With the ability to provide always-on, real-time, personalized communication, live chat is a key tool to help get you there. For 2018 we analyzed 45 million live chats across 14 industries to expose how you can optimize your live chat strategy and exceed customer expectations. Here’s the proof. Download Now.

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ECSI Increases Customer Satisfaction by 13%

NICE inContact

In 2018 alone, the company’s 100-120 contact center agents handled over 850,000 phone calls and 350,000 chats. The system often crashed, wait times were long and too much had to be done manually. Wait times, time to answer and agent stress levels are all down.

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What You Need to Know to Reduce Customer Effort in 2019

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. That five-minute wait time might be an improvement over the 25-minute wait time of last year, but the real goal should be eliminating a wait altogether. Why not start reducing customer effort RIGHT NOW?