Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Here are just a few powerful ways that any company can use social media to engage with their customers: If customer service is important to you, and it should be, then have someone (or a team) be part of your social service strategy. Repurpose content from your blogs and articles. Have a YouTube strategy.

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Social Media Engineering Customer Service CX 166

Totango

MAY 19, 2021

Choosing a Customer Success platform for your business is also a major decision and one that should not be taken lightly. For tips on futureproofing your decision check out the New Trends in CS for 2021. How to Use the Customer Success Platform Evaluation Scorecard Template. Customer 360. Customer Retention.

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Scorecard Real Estate Start-ups Customer Retention 108

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Companies with live chat are able to offer a seamless customer experience on their website. It cuts down on hold time and allows customers to get help ASAP, which is essential for brand loyalty and respect. The best part is, live chat boosts customer satisfaction as high as 92%. The 5 S’s of live chat. Support your sales team?

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E-commerce Healthcare Sales Retail 78

Hodusoft

APRIL 12, 2023

If you’re an insurance service provider, then you must know this. The key to success for your business doesn’t just lie within your insurance policies but also in the experience you provide to your customers. But most insurers overlook customer experience while providing services to their customers.

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Contact Center Omnichannel CX Customer Satisfaction 52

Zendesk

APRIL 5, 2022

When you invest time and energy in your customer support efforts, you’re investing in your company’s future. According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2022 , 73 percent of company leaders say there’s a direct link between their customer service and business performance. What is customer enablement?

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Customer Service Life

MARCH 18, 2018

This article was originally posted on the FCR blog on February 22, 2018. I posed this question to our program managers at FCR and compiled seven tips for keeping Slack organized. These questions likely represent real customers waiting for an answer and therefore are time sensitive. Click here to read the original post.

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Hodusoft

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Dynamic Scripting: Crafting Personalized Conversations with Call Center Software In the contemporary business world, focusing on customers’ requirements and delivering a personalized experience is essential. This is particularly critical for call centers, where customer satisfaction is paramount for the business’s success.

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CRM Machine Learning Customer Satisfaction Gaming 59

SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

Are you a regular customer of Starbucks? This is how Starbucks prioritizes its customers and consistently delivers exceptional retail customer service – showing how by creating a positive customer experience you can foster trust, cultivate customer loyalty , and set your business apart.

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Retail Customer Service E-commerce Social Media 52

CSAT.AI

AUGUST 7, 2019

In an earlier blog we proposed the differing views on how AI wil l aff ect the contact center in the future. As Forrester’s recent “Light on the Horizon: The State of Customer Experience Quality” acknowledges, every innovation has a pivot point. It states CX appears to be near this tipping point. Customer Facing AI.

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Provide Support

MAY 25, 2015

8 Tips to increase customer support staff productivity. Perhaps, every business at some point of their existence has questioned how to increase the productivity of their customer service staff without wearing people out and increasing their stress. Simplify your customer service, eliminate bureaucracy.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Besides potential language barriers, institutions also need to be sensitive to cultural differences and customs. In this blog, we’ll look at the unique challenges that schools face in engaging with international students, and how digital transformation has opened a way forward for them with digital communication channels like live chat.

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Education Technology Technology Customer Experience 52

SurveySensum

JULY 10, 2023

Are you a regular customer of Starbucks? This is how Starbucks prioritizes its customers and consistently delivers exceptional retail customer service – showing how by creating a positive customer experience you can foster trust, cultivate customer loyalty , and set your business apart.

Retail 40

Retail Customer Service E-commerce Social Media 40

Zendesk

MAY 26, 2021

Customer service can make or break a business. In this guide, we’ll share how to set your business up for customer service success. The definition of customer service. It’s also the processes that support the teams making good customer service happen. How has customer service changed?

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Customer Service Social Media Start-ups E-commerce 105

CX Journey

DECEMBER 20, 2017

An effective customer service solution has always been a tool that helps businesses stand out. However, customers recently have come to expect more from businesses in terms of service, forming a landscape that’s saturated with options, and thus hyper-competitive. What does this mean for how you communicate with customers?

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Social Media Touchpoint Customer Expectations Customer Service 54

Comm100

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Access to information is key to the success of any customer service team, whatever channel you use. For customer service, that means collecting, centralizing, and sorting important information into a well-crafted internal knowledge base. There are two types of knowledge bases for customer support: internal and external.

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Omnichannel Start-ups AI Customer Service 52

ProProfs

JULY 16, 2021

75% of consumers would stop doing business with a retailer if they encountered a bad experience such as poor customer service. Such employees play a vital role in business growth and success by keeping your customers delighted. In this blog post, I’ll be unboxing everything worth knowing about retail training programs.

Retail 52

Retail Sales Start-ups Customer Service 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

She’s worked in product from early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies like Rackspace and Square, a company with the sensitive task of handling customers’ money. Survey responses and numerical data are great, but they don’t replace the context of a 1:1 customer conversation. Rohini: Definitely.

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Invoicing Engineering Start-ups Customer Feedback 195

Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. Tip: Designing annual priorities will be unique to each contact center, and may depend on company history, culture, and customer experience goals.

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Contact Center Social Media Customer Journey Map Omnichannel 42

Comm100

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You want your live chat customer service experience to be top notch, so it’s no wonder you want the best and the brightest for the job. How can you tell who will treat your customers with kindness and compassion – who will work diligently to provide them with the solutions and the support that they are reaching out for?

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Customer Service Start-ups Construction Customer Satisfaction 42

Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

It’s 2018, and customer expectations are changing faster than ever. While some businesses have struggled to withstand the shifting tides, others have reacted in a timely enough fashion to keep up (at least minimally) with changing customer expectations. Organic Mobile Experiences Blur Channel Lines.

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ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. The goal is that by sharing our experiences, we’ll be able to learn and apply more practical advice / practices to our customer success careers.

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Start-ups Customer Relationship Management Innovation Customer Relationship 56

SurveySensum

MAY 20, 2020

In this blog we will understand how the world is facing this disruptor and taking actions to advance to a new world. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business. With the situation, there has been a change in the mindset of customers. How will COVID-19 affect Customer Experience?

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Social Media Customer Experience Healthcare Non-Profits 52

Callminer

APRIL 30, 2020

Given the often-hectic nature of call-based customer support, it is not at all uncommon for conflicts to arise with confused or otherwise frustrated customers. The most successful companies have solutions in place for monitoring customer interactions and analyzing customer sentiment. Be sure to apologize.

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Customer Service Contact Center Start-ups Construction 273

Comm100

JANUARY 5, 2017

Knowing when to say no to customers is a crucial part of knowing how to say no to customers. Here are some scenarios that will help you create guidelines for your business on when it is appropriate, or even to your advantage, to tell customers no. But sometimes, customers make requests that go against company policy.

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Social Media Customer Service 42

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Doug firmly believes in embracing the confidence, energy, and passion you put into your work, so much so that he built a business on it. And what you invariably find is that there are people full of energy and passion and mojo and confidence and loving what they’re doing and somehow, that never makes it to the customer.

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B2B Start-ups Education Entertainment 209

Comm100

MARCH 20, 2018

to send a letter to a customer. Holiday letters are an excellent way to keep customers up-to-date, send out promotions, and show customers you care. Use the steps laid out in this blog post to write winning sales letters your peers will wish they had sent. Thanks for Being a Customer on Your Birthday.

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Totango

DECEMBER 22, 2022

ClieOne of the most basic principles of customer success is using your products and services to create advocates for your company/product/brand. Having an army of happy customers can do much of this legwork for you. Client referrals are highly effective when it comes to customer success.

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NPS Social Media Net Promoter Score Non-Profits 105

ProProfs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This is how much Accenture estimates US companies lose each year due to customer churn stemming from poor customer service. . From creating a high-quality product or service to conducting savvy marketing campaigns – there are several ways to make people fall in love with your brand. . Industry Knowledge .

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Customer Service Entertainment Start-ups Sales 52

SurveySensum

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to the book Product-Led Onboarding: How to Turn Users Into Lifelong Customers , 40-60% of new users won’t even bother to come back after they sign up. But what if there was a way for SaaS companies to make onboarding a breeze, ensuring that every customer’s journey begins with a smile? Is It Easy To Sign-Up With You?

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Start-ups Customer Feedback Customer Satisfaction AI 52

Customers That Stick

MARCH 11, 2015

Service triggers that set customers off. Power words that influence customer perception. My new book Be Your Customer’s Hero: Real-World Tips and Techniques for the Service Front Lines is finally here. I am truly thrilled to put this book into the hands of customer-facing professionals all around the world.

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Social Media Retail Customer Service Customer Experience 139

Zendesk

APRIL 29, 2021

Coinbase, which helps customers buy cryptocurrency, recently began trading publicly in a “landmark moment” for crypto. Fintech startups have a real opportunity to transform how customers engage with the global economy, but the stakes are high. Sit Down Startup podcast: How to build a customer-centric fintech.

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Customer Service Social Media Finance Customer Feedback 59

Comm100

MAY 19, 2020

Note: This blog post was originally published on Jul. If you’re reading this blog post, you probably already know that live chat is a platform that allows you to chat directly with your website visitors. Live chat is a must-have tool for your business, and this blog post is going to cover exactly why that is. Increase sales.

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Sales Customer Service Start-ups Customer Retention 111

Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Advances in technology and shifts in customer preferences mean live chat best practices are often changing. We have been building live chat software for more than 10 years, helping brands like IBM, HomeTrust Bank, and Canadian Blood Services to deliver exceptional customer service. Let’s get started!

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Start-ups AI Customer Service Technology 83

ProProfs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this blog post, you’ll find everything you need to know to develop and execute a winning talent assessment strategy. Assessments can help you identify the employees that have the required level of hard & soft skills to be a leader along with leadership traits, such as accountability, adaptability, confidence, cognitive ability, etc. .

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Customer Service Life

AUGUST 27, 2018

This article was originally published on the ICMI blog on June 13, 2018. It’s the lifeblood of continuous improvement and great customer service. So, it’s with that in mind that I surveyed some of my colleagues (we call everyone a colleague at FCR, including our agents) for their top coaching tips for great team performance.

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Contact Center Customer Service Customer Experience 80

C3Centricity

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Offer them incredible products and services that solve their problems and fulfil their needs and desires. Then when you have converted them into customers, continue to keep them satisfied and give them something to talk about by surprising them too. I realise that only too well in my own service offerings.

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