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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 29, 2024

ShepHyken

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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Why customer service is an integral part of customer experience

CloudCherry

What comes to your mind when you hear the words “good customer experience”? Perhaps, you will remember a conversation with a support rep where he/she understood your problem perfectly, and helped you resolve it in no time. And in most cases, it is tied very closely to good customer service.

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B2B Customer Experience: The Complete Guide

InMoment XI

Managing the B2B customer experience is a key growth strategy for organizations across a wide variety of industries. For good reason: delivering great customer experience (CX) leads to increased loyalty, lower churn, more referrals, positive word of mouth, and higher-value customers. What is B2B Customer Experience?

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A Tale of Two B2B Customer Support Departments, Chapter 1

Team Support

Let’s use this analogy in “A Tale of Two Customer Support Departments” to tell about the despair and suffering of the B2B customer support department that still struggles with silos between support, sales, and product teams, using e-mail to manage support tickets, and no visibility into the history of the customer issues.

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Part 3: Taking “On-hold” Out of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

In Part 1 of this blog series we suggested tools that can help your B2B customers solve issues on their own and ways to help them feel more comfortable doing so. We continued in Part 2 exploring one way that customers can speed up the time to ticket resolution with live chat. A Picture—or Video—Is Worth a Thousand Words.

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Part 1: Taking “On-hold” Out of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

How many times have we heard that when calling a customer support line? It’s frustrating enough when you have an issue that you need to get resolved without waiting endlessly on hold if you’re calling, or for an e-mail response if you’ve e-mailed in. “Due to increased call volume, hold times may be longer than usual.”

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How to Use Social Media as a Customer Service Channel (+ Examples from Brands)

ShepHyken

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? .