ShepHyken

MAY 9, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience Conundrum: Fix Bad Experiences or Make Good Ones Better? Are your customers coming back out of true loyalty, habit, or some other reason? Tips to Providing Excellent Customer Service by Abdul Mooez.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 17, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 7 Customer Service Skills Every Business Needs by Renee Johnson. The Tech Report) Much of the customer mindset will remain a mystery. John shares six important ways to create a company focused on customer service.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how sales and customer service combine to create an experience – hopefully a positive one. She created an experience for her customer. She created an experience for her customer. This is where sales and customer service collide. Here’s the short version. I’ve never lost.”

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Call Experts

AUGUST 25, 2022

You need to outsource customer service to improve your business’s reputation and reach. The right contact center can help you with several tasks , including answering customer queries, maintaining customer records, and more. . You save your business time and money when you outsource customer service.

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TechSee

MAY 4, 2021

Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The Concept of GigCX: Freelance customer service agents. Why Customer Service is adopting the Gig Model.

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Solvvy

JULY 13, 2022

As companies strive to make the customer experience more personal and empathetic, could the answer be customer service automation? Customer service automation can help you overcome other customer support challenges. Customer service automation can fill some of those gaps.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

One of the major weaknesses of most organizations is top management’s lack of a customer service strategy. They fail to realize the strategic opportunity on how to use superior service as a vehicle to build market share and market dominance. All three companies provide Relentless Customer Service.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

More and more people are complaining about bad customer service. The demand for better service continues to grow, as evidenced in our customer experience research (2022 Achieving Customer Amazement study sponsored by Amazon Web Services). The post Bad Customer Service Isn’t the Problem.

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TechSee

JUNE 1, 2021

What is Gig Customer Service? This gig-based economic format has spread to the customer service function – known as GigCX – where freelance customer support agents are sourced to perform on a per-task basis. Gig customer service: Can it really work? Solution: Boost product registration.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The reason most organizations deliver poor or mediocre customer service is that they don’t understand the power of a customer service strategy. John Tschohl of the Service Quality Institute, explains. Strategy is a powerful tool you can use to gain market share and market dominance.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 3 Ways to Move From Customer Service to Customer Care by Patrick McCullough. Destination CRM) What’s the difference between customer service and customer care? How about “customer care?”

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, digital self-service has become the preference – and the new normal, along with higher expectations and reliance on these channels. The role of technology is more important than ever in improving customer service and operational efficiencies. Download our eBook: What Self Service Will Look Like in 2025 .

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My Customer

JUNE 7, 2022

GWhen it comes to your customer service strategy, does age matter? 7th Jun 2022. Do you make decisions about how and where you deliver support based on. By Mandy Reed Global Head of Marketing.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences. E.g. “Ask me for help with…”.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

When you ask your customers if they trust you and receive answers other than YES, then the average of those answers subtracted from 100 is your trust gap. Consider the findings from PwC ’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series Survey on Trust. Get more information on The Customer Focus ™ customer service training programs.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have great customer service. . They provide a great overall customer experience. . They fuel the customer’s experience. Our 2022 customer service research (sponsored by Amazon Web Services) found that 83% of customers trusted a company or brand more if it provided an excellent customer service experience.

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ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. CustomerThink) Considering the cost of attracting new customers ­– one estimate is seven times more than keeping existing ones – many companies would do better to focus on retaining their engaged enrollees.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 29, 2022

This week, we feature an article by David Meerman Scott adapted from the new 8th edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR to be released on May 3, 2022. He shares how organizations can use data and AI-powered tools to benefit customers. And when we fail to use data to make our customers’ lives better, we’re alienating them.

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Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

Its lean and straightforward formula for measuring customer contentment has made this metric a veritable “gold standard” in the customer experience space. According to CustomerGauge’s 2022 report , NPS sports an impressive 41% trust rating among B2B businesses – higher than any other rating system of its kind!

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For in-depth insights on this topic, we at Stella Connect by Medallia commissioned a research study of more than 2,100 consumers to get a better understanding of the evolving customer service and customer experience landscape to determine the best practices for meeting and exceeding customer needs. 1: Response time. #2:

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ShepHyken

MARCH 7, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How to Build Customer Loyalty by Sharing the Inflation Burden by Joel Comm. My friend, Joel Comm, shared three interesting ways to cut costs that make sense because none impact the service customers are used to experiencing.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Customers are like elephants; they have amazing memories. This means they will never forget a truly wonderful or absolutely horrible service experience. So, in these tough economic times, what are the best customer service strategies to provide elephant-astic experiences?

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CSM Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

More businesses are recognising the value of outstanding customer service. In fact, 88% of companies now prioritise customer experience in their contact centres. This confirms that quality customer service and brand recognition go hand in hand.

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ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2022

This week’s guest post by Sharavanan Shanmugaraju shares six customer service trends that companies need to adopt this year. Every year, companies find ways to improve customer service. This could be investing in new tools, changing processes, or adding new people to your team against customers. That’s great.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Chatbots have risen to prominence in almost every sector that needs to maintain a customer service front or any industry that maintains a database that would boost the customer experience if users had easy access to it. Instantaneous Customer Service. Uses of Chatbots. The future is definitely automation.

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Joe Rawlinson

JANUARY 18, 2022

Although there are plenty of ways to improve your business, these 10 tips will make a difference for your company’s bottom line in 2022: 1. Making your customers want to buy is a must. Here are a few tips to help you increase your sales volume in 2022: Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of customer service is to make customers happy, but the logistics behind it can be costly for businesses, especially when they’re not sustainable. According to BusinessWire, it was around $175 trillion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.2%. The logistics sector is growing exponentially.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Looking to improve your customer service? Before you begin making changes to your service delivery and your staffing practices, it’s important to understand how your organization compares against industry. Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022. Read more: Live Chat Metrics 2022 – Benchmark Data. to save time.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

According to international outsourcers CGS, 80% of consumers feel more emotionally connected to a brand when customer service solves their problem and 30% of consumers are willing to pay more for excellent service, a 6% increase over 2019. As a result, improving service levels is the top goal for 38% of contact centres in 2022.

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Team HGS

AUGUST 22, 2017

HGS Webinar: Reinventing the Customer Service Model Using Bots&Brains™. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an area of increasing investment, with the AI market poised to grow to $40 billion by 2022, according to Market Research Store. Lauren: Step number one always should be, analyze your top contact drivers.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of the positives to come out of the pandemic is that it made every customer service department think more about the wellbeing of employees than ever before. It’s a welcome shift because for most contact centre managers, agent stress is the biggest labour issue on their minds and it’s diminishing the customer experience (CX).

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While these might be rhetorical questions, our customers tell us again and again that agent retention has never been more important. Our 2022 research shows that 70% of agents say that working remotely has improved their job satisfaction, and 56% of respondents say they’d consider leaving their jobs if they couldn’t work remotely.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 31, 2021

She shares 5 customer service strategies that improve customer retention. People may cut companies some slack if a product doesn’t quite work as expected, but only when the customer service experience makes up for these missteps. . What’s the main reason that customer service is so important?

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