CSM Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Excellent customer service is the number one job in any company. It is the personality of the company and the reason customers come back. Without customers, there is no company.” – Connie Elder. For businesses, the entire customer pool is available through social media. What is social customer service?

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Kayako

APRIL 11, 2017

She will guide you through why customer care is so important and how teams can feel empowered to help their customers. You love doing everything that you can for your customers. Customers can make crazy requests. Sometimes their request is out of reach of what you can actually do for your customer.

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Magellan Solutions

JANUARY 17, 2024

This integration can improve operational effectiveness, resulting in more advanced services and lower customer costs. Call Quality Monitoring with AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in call quality monitoring to evaluate customer interactions in real-time and post-call analysis.

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SaleMove

MAY 12, 2020

Self-service is a magical concept. Think about the monumental leap that we’ve achieved by empowering customers to complete a process or resolve an issue on their own. Mass adoption of the internet has made self-service a true reality. Customers have become accustomed to the ease of self-service.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For people working in customer service, the reopening of the world from its current closed-off state will mean a variety of things. Many people working in customer service roles did the majority of their job over the phone or through the computer before the pandemic. The Future Is Now.

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Magellan Solutions

MARCH 26, 2024

Outsourcing Customer Service: The Smart Move for SMEs So you’re a business owner, always on the edge trying to keep up with the competition. Sure, you know it’s the happy customers that matter, but doesn’t customer service management look like a time-consuming skydive into a pool with no bottom?

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ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

ViiBE Blog Customer service challenges of remote work Anna Gorina January 19, 2022 Share this article Contents Share this article Contents Before 2020, only a few companies across the globe had remote work best practices in place where they were used to allowing team members to work from home for a certain period of time regularly.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Outsourcing customer service is one cost-effective way to improve the service quality that your company offers, particularly if you are just starting or your business is creating too much pressure on your existing customer service team. What is outsourcing customer service?

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Think Customers

JULY 29, 2022

Every time customers interact with a customer service representative, do a keyword search, click through a brand’s website, or engage other touchpoints, they’re giving hints about their interests and intentions. Businesses are eager to unlock insights that can help them adapt to change and reengage customers.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Thanks to the technological revolution, customer service has become a key factor which distinguishes companies in the financial services and insurance (FSI) industry. Here are some ways the financial sector can measure their customer service, identify gaps and take steps to improve the customer experience (CX).

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When you are a bulk rock salt supplier, customer service is key. If you want to keep your customers happy and coming back for more, you need to provide impressive customer service. In this article, we will discuss ten ways that you can give great customer service to your customers!

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Interactions

MAY 15, 2019

Conversational marketing is exactly what is sounds like, a marketing style the companies use to engage and interact with their customers in a way that feels natural, casual, and informal. Because of this demand in conversational marketing, we have seen companies introduce chatbots that speak to customers in a seemingly conversational way.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

Jackson National Life Insurance Company has earned four awards from the Service Quality Measurement Group, Inc. for excellence in contact center service in 2017. In fact, according to SQM’s benchmarking survey, 95 percent of advisors gave Jackson’s customer service the highest possible rating on the survey.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 29, 2016

Insurer State Farm advertises that it’s “like a good neighbor,” while one of my local car dealerships runs newspaper ads that say “doing business with integrity for over 59 years!”. These results are consistent with what we have learned in conducting customer mirrors. Customers Emotions Are Predictable. Do you believe them?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 29, 2016

Insurer State Farm advertises that it’s “like a good neighbor,” while one of my local car dealerships runs newspaper ads that say “doing business with integrity for over 59 years!”. These results are consistent with what we have learned in conducting customer mirrors. Customers Emotions Are Predictable. Do you believe them?

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Service Untitled

JANUARY 13, 2014

In the old days, customers didn’t have the advantage of the Internet to research issues. So may I now offer some age-old suggestions on how to act when one needs customer support? Do not assume everyone is having a bad day, and don’t take your bad day out on the customer representative. Take a deep breath.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 13, 2012

Even nice customers get angry. It can happen to any organization, and figuring out the best ways to respond and satisfy your customers can mean loyalty and continued business. Traditionally large companies do not pay their first line of customer service representatives high salaries. photo credit: mStreetPhoto.

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Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

How do you empower your customer service agents to deliver a great experience and delight customers? Michael is the Principal and founder of the consultancy The Pace of Service , which helps organizations to realize the full benefit of Customer Service, Social Business, Business Process Management, and People Leadership.

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Clarabridge

MAY 10, 2018

Executive Vice Chairman, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Sid Banerjee took us through the inception of the company and how the Clarabridge product suite has evolved to help brands optimize customer data and transform experiences. We heard first from Beth Corso, Insights and Measurement Manager at American Family Insurance.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2016

Customer Support. Have you ever called a company’s phone support number, talk to their customer service rep, have that rep transfer you to another person, only to have to repeat the story all over again? How about when you dial the company’s support number and the automated prompt asks you to put in your customer number.

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Myra Golden

JULY 15, 2018

I called it Top 6 Ways to Get An Angry Customer to Back Down. For some time I’ve wanted to update my Top 6 Ways to Get An Angry Customer to Back Down tactics. In a few days I’m heading to Montreal to help a new client, a team of Customer Service Representatives, get their demanding and unreasonable customers to back down.

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SuiteCX

MARCH 2, 2015

There is rightfully a lot of focus in CX regarding how customers should be treated throughout their lifecycle, but what most companies actually do is focus on the acquisition phase of the relationship. If there is a retention effort, it is often a ham-fisted attempt to force you into remaining a customer. Is it time for wine yet?

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Magellan Solutions

APRIL 15, 2021

The Importance of Customer Service Outsourcing for SMEs. There are a lot of advantages when going for customer service outsourcing. They made a great fortune out of the contact support service. Unlike the Fortune 500, most of the SMEs don’t have the luxury to spend much for their customer service.

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Service Untitled

JULY 26, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Shouldn’t hospitals provide customer service? It has three major goals, and for the first time provided patients with some level of customer service. At a local.

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West Monroe

MAY 26, 2017

Our dialogue centered around four key areas banks and merchants must consider when creating a winning payments program strategy: a compelling value proposition, a differentiated customer experience, breadth of customer base, and innovation. Differentiated Customer Experience. Breadth of Customer Base.

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Service Untitled

JULY 31, 2012

Do these powerful organizations therefore view customer service as an operational cost rather than a marketing investment? In a study from CRM Guru, bad customer service accounts for 70 percent of customer attrition followed by poor quality at 30 percent, price at 25 percent, and functionality at 15 percent.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 14, 2011

As the popularity of online shopping continues to grow by giant leaps, so does the need for online customer service. Our new online chat representative is the person who now provides us with support, advice, and encouragement. Last week my online chat support experience brought me to another plateau.

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Lumoa

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Voice of Customer (VoC) is not a new concept. It’s a strategy that many companies have used for years to understand and prioritize customer needs. In this article, we’ll go over what Voice of Customer data analytics is and the different types. In This Article: What is Voice of Customer Analytics?

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Learn about the top two customer surveys for predicting and increasing customer retention. Anytime a customer cuts ties, you experience the negative impact of customer churn. Here are 40 customer retention statistics that reinforce the growing need for customer experience management.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A McKinsey survey found that organizations’ digital product experiences accelerated by four years and their digitally-enabled portfolios are now nearly a decade ahead of schedule. There’s now more pressure than ever to digitize product experiences and create efficient, intuitive digital self-service opportunities for consumers.

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Service Untitled

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

and brought up some interesting points about customer service and the lack thereof. Slater became a sort of folk hero of customer service contempt by more than 200,000 people on his Facebook’s fan page. People are fed up with poor customer service and customer service departments.

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

N o matter what your product or service is or what business you’re in, your employees will have to deal with difficult customers. So that’s why I’m sharing these tactics… to show you a fast and easy new way your employees can create calm and regain control with difficult customers. Not only that, but my agents were overwhelmed.

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TechSee

APRIL 30, 2019

How can a company achieve a good Customer Effort Score? Kevin and Beth are planning their honeymoon to Hawaii and need to choose a travel insurance provider. They call Company A and wait on hold for seven minutes before speaking with a customer service representative. Why is reducing customer effort important?

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Myra Golden

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

N o matter what your product or service is or what business you’re in, your employees will have to deal with difficult customers. So that’s why I’m sharing these tactics… to show you a fast and easy new way your employees can create calm and regain control with difficult customers. Not only that, but my agents were overwhelmed.

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ECXO

JULY 26, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Real-Time Data: Enhancing Customer Understanding Article source: [link] In a recent article we talked about the widening gap in Europe in customer experience maturity. Brands have unprecedented access to customer data and digital footprints. Why now, and why in real time?

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Most organizations now report having some level of customer experience measurement program in place. But the majority are still not able to show how the customer experience metrics they collect directly impact business performance or how they are using them to improve customer experience. By Swati Sahai.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 16, 2023

Remote Workers are Significantly Less Productive This is undoubtedly one of the widely spread myths about working from home, especially by individuals with hardly any experience in remote work. Unlike employees that work in offices, those who work remotely rarely experience burnout due to their flexible timetables and good work-life balance.

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