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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes.

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How to Achieve an Effective Customer Care Plan

Helpware

The benefits of a well-structured customer care plan are essential as they assist in retaining customers and creating loyal brand ambassadors, both of which are essential to the long-term success of your business. The survival rate of small businesses is approximately 50% at the five-year mark.

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The Customer Care, Success, and Experience Continuum

Andrew Mcfarland

When asked to explain the difference between customer care, success, and experience I explain my perspective in terms of a continuum. Customer care (or service) relates to a company’s ability to respond appropriately to customer inquiries. When a customer raises.

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Designing Self-Service for Customer Success

COPC

Even with phone and email decreasing in popularity, the preference for self-service may not be growing as quickly as the customer care industry would hope. We can partially attribute the delay in growth to poor design, where customers experience more challenges than solutions.

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Blue Ocean Named as Finalist in 2024 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a Finalist today in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category in the 18 th annual Stevie ® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. About Blue Ocean Blue Ocean is an award-winning provider of innovative customer care solutions.

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How will the economic downturn affect Customer Success? Learn from three SaaS CEOs.

ChurnZero

With sweeping layoffs, forecast misses, and budget cuts in the news, there’s one question running through the mind of every Customer Success leader right now: What can I do to prepare my department for the impacts of the economic downturn? Customers will respect and trust you infinitely more when you’re upfront with them.

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Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference?

ClearAction

Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference? Customer CareCustomer Relationship Management … Customer Experience — what’s the difference? Experiential marketing — events and campaigns that build customer advocacy. Lynn Hunsaker.