ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2023

And in the world of customer service and CX, there is much to be excited about. Last month I released my annual Top Ten Customer Experience Predictions in my weekly Forbes column. Customers Will Be Smarter and More Demanding Than Ever – I may sound like a broken record as I start each year with this prediction.

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Team Support

AUGUST 5, 2020

In Part 1 of this blog series we started exploring tools that can help your B2B customers solve issues on their own and ways to help them feel more comfortable doing so. Now in Part 2 of this series, we’ll explore one way that customers can speed up the time to ticket resolution with live chat. Let’s Chat!

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Kayako

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In today’s world, many companies are focusing on improving customer relationship management, and rightly so. Getting customer service right isn’t easy. New truth: You are competing with the last best experience your customer had.” The challenge for company management is they don’t just have external customers.

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Technology Self Service Tips Customer Service 156

Solvvy

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Time is Right for a Customer Support Chatbot. In 2020 it’s become more important than ever to provide your customers with fast, effective, and personalized support. Top companies need to be able to handle increased volumes and customer expectations with fewer resources. What is a Next-Gen Chatbot?

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Inbenta

MAY 16, 2022

One answer is AI chatbots. In recent years, the ability of AI chatbots to comprehend speech and automate tasks has grown in leaps and bounds. With innovations such as Alexa, Siri, and more, AI chatbots are increasingly being used to perform many menial and tedious tasks that used to bog down the service industry.

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Team Support

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As we look forward into the next decade, let's first reflect back to the previous one and the impact it had on customer support. It also launched "big data" into the mainstream, and support teams had more information about their customers than ever before. Great support conversations happen between a customer and an agent every day.

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B2B Self Service Chatbots Video 80

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond. by Tracey Ruff.

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Self Service Customer Service Customer Journeys B2B 128

Bold360

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Today’s B2B buyers shop for business solutions just like they shop for personal products. According to Forrester, 68% of B2B buyers in 2017 preferred to research online on their own, up from 53% in 2015. [1]. So, what’s a B2B company to do? Chatbots are helping companies deliver this kind of personalization at scale.

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

B2B has been paying attention. Enhancements like adding a chatbot to a website or better payment processing via an app. These aren’t IT projects, they’re business strategies to drive customer-led growth. Leaders offer customers the same consumer-like experiences that they see in their personal lives – anywhere, everywhere.

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Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

At Kayako, we do our best to understand not just our customers’ needs, but their customers’ needs, as well. Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences.

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Team Support

APRIL 21, 2020

It’s no secret that more B2B (business-to-business) customers are using live chat than ever before. A simple way to get a response from a business without having to call (and often face hold times) or email, chat is a real-time form of communication many businesses leverage daily. Part 1 – Pre-conversation Chat Planning.

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Inbenta

JANUARY 17, 2022

9 Customer Service Trends for 2022. Digital transformation has shifted to a new phase where businesses must compete to differentiate themselves in the digital landscape and provide services that cater to employee and customer demands alike. This has a direct impact on customer service.

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PK

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Enterprise technology buying is changing, driven by two major trends: the consumerization of B2B and a generational shift as Millennials step into decision-making roles. This has implications for everyone working with Millennials throughout the B2B buying journey – and ultimately the journey of turning customers into advocates.

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B2B Self Service Chatbots B2C 73

Team Support

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We began this blog series with Part 1 on how to use reports from your B2B customer support software solution to interpret key data and implement strategies as a result. In Part 2 we explored how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not. Industry trends versus company trends.

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Team Support

MARCH 28, 2024

If you’re in the customer support world, then you know that achieving excellence in the space requires more than addressing customers’ immediate needs. You must first redefine what customer service means entirely. It's here that TeamSupport Software shines, revolutionizing customer support management.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2023

As businesses strive to make data-driven decisions, self-service business intelligence (BI) reporting and analytics are becoming increasingly popular. By providing easy-to-use tools for data visualization, exploration, and reporting, self-service BI can save time and improve decision-making.

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Team Support

APRIL 24, 2023

As a customer support professional, you understand that customer experience is one of the key components to a successful business. Because of this, you’re continuing to navigate through the ever changing landscape of customer service by implementing solutions that enhance the customer experience.

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Software Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots 98

Team Support

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

While 90% of business-to-business (B2B) leaders recognize the importance of customer support, fewer than 25% of companies excel at helping their customers. It’s a concerning statistic as B2B markets thrive off long-term relationships with their clients. So, how do you personalize the customer call experiences at scale?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 5 Reasons Why VIP Customers Are the Key to E-Commerce Growth by Josh Kim (Total Retail) VIP customers significantly impact a business’ bottom line, often contributing a substantial portion of total revenue.

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Loyalty Programs Customer Service Self Service e-support 71

Team Support

APRIL 15, 2021

Customers are often in need of assistance and expect smooth interactions with the company. Hence, leading businesses are focused on using technology to humanize their labels and develop service models to withstand this ever-changing business environment. Technology is making an increasingly significant contribution to customer service.

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Gainsight

APRIL 10, 2023

By Harshi Banka, Senior Director of Strategy, Digital Customer Success The last few months have been rough for SaaS businesses with multiple headwinds including the economic downturn, rising inflation, and decreasing investments. There’s no doubt that customer success (CS) has become existential to SaaS.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A Complete Guide to Omnichannel Customer Service. The state of customer service is always changing, and brands must keep up. Customers now use an average of nine different channels to connect with companies, and they expect the support they receive on these channels to be fast, convenient and personalized.

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Omni-Channel Customer Service Chatbots Social Media 226

TeamSupport

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Last year, we highlighted some of the key customer service trends to watch in 2018 and many of them came to fruition. Once again, for the third year in a row, here are 7 customer service trends to watch in 2019…. Once again, for the third year in a row, here are 7 customer service trends to watch in 2019….

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Solvvy

JUNE 17, 2021

Catering your customer support to your individual customers can be accomplished easily with a smart, chatbot platform like Solvvy. Solvvy uses persona-based routing to use the information you already know about a customer or prospect to serve them solutions and content personalized specifically to them.

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Self Service Customer Experience Chatbots How To 71

TeamSupport

OCTOBER 26, 2018

With this said, let’s look at how these specific needs apply to a different type of software – help desk software – so you can determine whether a B2C or B2B software better fits your goals and objectives…. Help desk software built for B2B will focus on contacts, but it was built at its core to focus on companies and business relationships.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Make Every Day Valentine’s Day by Showing Love and Empathy to Customers by Janelle Estes. Love (in the metaphorical sense) and appreciate your customers year-round. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Self Service B2B Retail 98

TeamSupport

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It’s no surprise that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is really starting to make an impact in the customer service industry. How companies interact with customers is being strongly influenced by this emerging technology. Click here to download our eBook on mastering self-service with B2B customers!

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Industry Self Service Chatbots Customer Service 74

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“81% of all customers across industries attempt to take care of matters themselves before reaching out to a live representative.” Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. Who is helping your customers when they have questions and problems outside of business hours?

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Team Support

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One area that often gets overlooked is customer support. Yet, it's a critical touchpoint that can make or break your relationship with customers. In this hyper-competitive landscape, merely responding to customer queries isn't enough. Lower churn rates and higher customer satisfaction scores. The result?

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TechSee

DECEMBER 5, 2017

According to Walker , a customer intelligence consulting firm, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B. This customer-centric focus has resulted in 72% of businesses reporting that their top priority is improving the customer experience, according to Forrester.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 23, 2021

He shares customer service best practices that successful brands use to help their customers on social media. Another intuitive and frankly underutilized way brands can use social media is for addressing customer service inquiries. . Why use social media as a customer service channel? .

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Answer Dash

MAY 27, 2018

(This article was first published on Forbes ) In our modern world, customer experience is key. In fact, customers are willing to pay up to 16% more for a better customer experience. More than price or product quality, experience will soon be the biggest differentiator for getting customers, even in the B2B space.

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C3Centricity

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This is why UX design is vital to satisfying our customers’ demands and needs. Clearly, things have changed dramatically and businesses, both B2C and B2B are scrambling to catch up. Here are some thoughts about what is important to know when trying to meet our stay-at-home customers’ changing desires: FROM TEXT TO VOICE.

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Chatbots Self Service Customer Satisfaction CRM 177

ProProfs Chat

JUNE 14, 2019

Do you know how to keep your customers satisfied? Customer service is a high-stakes game. Every company is competing for the same customers, and customer satisfaction is one of the main differentiators between success and failure. For this reason, customer experience has become the key to business success.

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ECXO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Article originally posted at: [link] How AI and GenAI Are Shaking the Status Quo in Customer Experience (CX) As you know, the potential for artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to transform every part of customer experience, and everything surrounding us, is electrifying. Then ChatGPT happens.

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Team Support

JANUARY 30, 2023

What is a Seamless Customer Experience A seamless customer experience is one where the customer interacts with a company in a smooth, effortless manner. The customer feels that their needs are understood, meaning the company is able to anticipate the customer's needs and proactively offer solutions.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Zendesk is a mega player in customer service software, competing primarily with Kustomer, Freshdesk and Gorgias. And with over 50,000 paying customers (largely small businesses with B2B transactional models), Zendesk is a respectable brand name. One user even said: “ Quit limiting the way we can contact support.

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