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Evolution of the support rep: from outsourced to in-office

Kayako

Customer feedback doesn’t make it back to your company. Customer feedback can be a goldmine for product and marketing teams. But when customer support is outsourced, the two-way communication between support and the rest of the business is broken. There are some specific reasons why outsourcing tends to fail: 1.

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Prediction: 7 Customer Service Channels We Will Use in the Future

Playvox

According to Microsoft , “30% of consumers expressed that not being able to reach a real person when they needed to was the most frustrating part of a poor customer service experience. Leave a comment with your feedback. Do you currently use any of these technologies? What has been your experience?

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Case study: Tesco and a consumer champion

Helen Dewdney

It was a post about poor customer service and entitled Tesco – Phillip Clarke is no Sir Terry Leahy. But Helen had also asked on social media for people’s comments and gave this feedback too. Some of the feedback included a particular case about the way teenagers were treated in a specific Tesco store.

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ROI of Social Customer Service: How to Calculate It and Create a Strong Business Case

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet The phrase “customer service is the new marketing” has gained popularity with brands realizing that poor customer service takes current, and even potential customers, out of the marketing funnel. Think about it.

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How to Define Tangible Employee Engagement with Jeff Toister

Russel Lolacher

So that employee bears a lot of responsibility, because they’re trying to recruit other people to be destructive to steal, be dishonest, intentionally provide poor customer service, harass people, bully people. So employees absolutely have a responsibility there. It takes effort every single day. Oh, great.