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7 Effective Ways to Improve Your Online Customer Service

Kustomer

Empower your support agents with the right skills to play their part in the customer journey. You need to promote a customer-first culture and reflect this in your customer service team’s training – an effective strategy in reducing churn rate. . Poor customer service skills can be a hindrance to your business.

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Is self-service better than live customer service?

Service Untitled

Assuming there are no waiting lines, would you opt to use a self-service kiosk at the airport to check-in or would you prefer to interact with an airline agent? Amazon and Netflix are just more examples of consumers using self-service. We don’t even have to be pleasant to a machine.

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Understanding Negative NPS Score: Causes, Impact and Solutions

Lumoa

Moreover, at least two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies pore over their NPS results religiously, using the metric as a barometer of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Clearly, NPS occupies a special place in customer experience stardom, sitting atop the throne with its crown of glory firmly affixed. That’s a huge mistake.

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The Cost of High Customer Effort

CSM Magazine

But, generally, a “bad” customer experience means the customer’s expectations were not met in one way or another. For example, maybe it’s tough for customers to reach you. Research by Microsoft found that 58% of consumers simply switch companies when they have a poor customer service experience.

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Customer retention in the telecom industry – new thinking

TechSee

A recent study of the phenomenon of churn revealed that 39% of Americans who canceled a contract with a company in the past 24 months cited poor customer service as the primary reason. Comcast , for example, questions customers who disconnect their service to identify the root cause of their complaints and address them.

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The New Qualities for Customer Service Excellence

C3Centricity

Companies that have understood customers’ frustration with help-line queues have found alternative solutions, such as arranging a callback or providing sufficient staff to cover the busiest times, or at least to be available when the customer is most likely to need support. What makes a great customer service representative (CSR)?

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Six customer service mistakes you probably don’t know you’re making (and how to fix them)

Vonage

Satisfaction levels among customer service staff are notoriously low – indeed, according to one survey of 200,000 employees, it was found that customer-facing staff had significantly lower levels of engagement than those in executive positions. With numbers like that, it’s unsurprising that customer service suffers.