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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

Comm100

90% of consumers say that when they interact with a brand online, they expect an immediate response. It’s also interesting to note that nearly half of online students favored live chat as a way of replicating face-to-face access to staff. Legacy phone systems can come with high costs for ongoing delivery and maintenance.

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How Retail CX Leaders Solve Problems During the Busy Holidays

Uniphore

artificial intelligence (AI)-powered IVR system to human agents can help ensure complex customer requests materialize without friction. noted higher online sales ?that it dropped the ball on adopting an omnichannel approach at the right time. For example, a seamless handoff from an?artificial Logistics mismatch: Some retailers?noted

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7 Ways to Provide Perfect Customer Service in the Home Improvement Industry

CSM Magazine

Improve the checkout experience. Long wait times and an unfriendly checkout staff do not add up to a good customer experience. Home improvement stores with badly arranged shopping aisles, unfair queuing systems and long lines are going to leave your customers fuming. Offer an easy online experience.

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Is the Future of Retail, Physical or Virtual?

C3Centricity

Compete for customer experience…not CX…there’s a difference and one is customer-centered. Don’t impose false standards to compete against other systems to reduce fees. Understand social commerce and design targeted initiatives that drive shared experiences, reviews and referrals online.

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The Future of Retail is in the Stars (or is it the Cloud?) Testing

C3Centricity

Compete for customer experience…not CX…there’s a difference and one is customer-centered. Don’t impose false standards to compete against other systems to reduce fees. Understand social commerce and design targeted initiatives that drive shared experiences, reviews and referrals online.

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How retail brands are adapting the Black Friday shopping experience for 2020

Qualtrics

Complementing in-store sales and support with online experiences. Diverting people online with early-bird discounts. The pandemic drove 63% of consumers to buy more online , with health concerns being the main reason for their decision. To prevent time waste and added risk, brands have started to use virtual queuing.

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Secret Sauce

C Space

They don’t talk about checkout or wait times. They don’t focus on the usual, in-store, functional experiences that get mentioned about most brands in any industry with a physical store presence. They don’t talk about prices or sales or coupons. And it’s not just because of extraordinary efforts like those during Harvey.