The Customer Service Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As many readers will already know, when I’m not editing The Customer Service Blog, I also do university lecturing in the disciplines of Marketing, Management and Business Studies. Darren Bugg Editor, The Customer Service Blog You may be used to paying more for a plane ticket or a train journey during peak times.

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Shep Hyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

He shares how companies can use QR codes to improve customer service and experience. QR codes are commonly used for payments and advertisements and are effortlessly offering a contactless solution to customers. For instance, QR codes can effectively be implemented in customer service.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR. Props to Jeremy Watkin , Director of Customer Experience and Support at NumberBarn, who first posed the question on Twitter and got us thinking about the topic.) What are Web Call-Backs?

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CSAT.AI

MAY 3, 2023

Today we’re following up on our improper ticket closing blog. 1) Assembly Line Service When the customer’s issue is assigned a number sometimes the customer themselves is left behind. A baseline of good customer service is letting the customer know their issue has been received and is being addressed.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Your customers should know your employees by name. Don’t be The Cheesecake Factory , with a menu of services 24 pages long. The more specific you can be about the services you offer, the higher your value to your clients (and therefore your prices). Specialize. Can you talk us through your onboarding process a little bit?

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Steven Van Belleghem

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And you feel that through their entire app and all their services. Use data for good (for the customer). But what’s special about that is that they offer quite a radical promise to their customers, one of honesty and transparency. offer their customers a better experience as well. Trip.com is extremely tech driven.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Knowing this percentage, how can you harness the incredible power of the Customers’ subconscious mind to create a positive experience? What these industries do to create a positive experience for their diners or players show us the importance of designing a deliberate subconscious experience for your customers, whomever they might be.

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CSAT.AI

AUGUST 12, 2021

Meeting QA goals score with both customers and businesses! Customers cheer when they feel that they matter. Treat your customers like valuable members of your team! Zendesk’s 2021 Customer Experience Trends Report reveals 75% of customers are willing to spend more on a brand that provides quality CX.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 25, 2024

Their kind words about how much they liked our services got me thinking – could their happiness translate into more opportunities for me? In this blog, I’ll share with you six simple tips on how to ask for a referral from a client. They help you spot customers who aren’t just happy but super excited about your brand.

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ModSquad

APRIL 13, 2021

If you read the “About Us” page on a company website, you may see text about “providing great customer service” or “service excellence.” To truly provide service excellence, you have to go above and beyond meeting the basic needs of your customers. Convenience is Key.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy. Customer service.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

The last thing you can afford is a disconnect, which will lead to frustration and a lack of communication among both employees and customers.” – Larry Alton, How to Choose the Best Call Center Software , Business.com; Twitter: @businessdotcom. Service is a big part. “As Ensure security and compliance.

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Bill Quiseng

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This was originally published as a guest post on Shep Hyken’s customer service blog. . Even hotels are experimenting with robots to deliver room service. But in this technological evolution, too many companies are confusing customer services with customer service.

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Bill Quiseng

AUGUST 10, 2015

Micah Solomon is a customer service and marketing speaker, strategist, and author of the book, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service. Ever since reading his book, I have been following his customer experience articles on Forbes. Many of them have never stayed at a hotel recognized for its exceptional service.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

When striving for the next level of Customer Experience, it is critical to understand how your customers make decisions. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see our clients presume that customer evaluations of an experience occur at the product level. The room was fine, the service was fine, and so on.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. BPOs offer a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to customer support and sales. As per a report , the customer care BPO market is estimated to rise from US$22,598.82 million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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Comm100

AUGUST 31, 2020

Delivering the perfect customer experience on every occasion across all your touchpoints is no easy feat. With increasing customer expectations and the rise of new support channels, customer service complaints are inevitable – but this doesn’t mean they’re irreparable. What’s the problem? Intelligent routing.

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Comm100

AUGUST 31, 2020

Delivering the perfect customer experience on every occasion across all your touchpoints is no easy feat. With increasing customer expectations and the rise of new support channels, customer service complaints are inevitable – but this doesn’t mean they’re irreparable. Handoffs are just an occupational hazard, right?

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 18, 2015

It also taught me how good customer experience strategy depends on meeting the expectations of individual customers. The Diner: Customer experience served cheap, fast, and without fuss. Customers know that. Speedy service was the name of the game. The Bar: Customer centricity poured to your liking.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2019

The following books should be in your arsenal for customer experience transformation. The authors of the following books have also been guests on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. knows a thing or two about creating memorable experiences and providing stellar customer service.

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Hodusoft

JULY 6, 2022

Top Call Routing Strategies to Improve Customer Experience An exceptional customer experience is critical to a business’ immediate and long-term success. Today, 83% of customers expect to engage with someone when contacting a business. Call Routing System: What is it and How Does it Work?

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SurveySensum

JULY 11, 2023

This delightful experience, my friend, is what we call customer experience (CX). Before we move ahead, let’s understand – What is customer experience? Customer Experience is the overall impression a brand creates in the minds and hearts of its customers. But WHY is customer experience so important?

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Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

You’ve designed your NPS survey and emailed it to all your customers—and the results are in… but not those you were expecting. When it comes to gauging customer sentiment and loyalty, few metrics enjoy such widespread acclaim as the Net Promoter Score (NPS). In this blog post, we’ll answer all these questions and more.

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Chip Bell

OCTOBER 4, 2018

We offered zany menu items like Dungeness crab tater tots, roasted bone marrow, potato skin fondue, and even a 32-ounce porterhouse steak for two!”. Blogs were written about us and reporters started hanging around. The post National Customer Service Week Hero for Thursday appeared first on Chip R. It saved us!

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Hodusoft

MAY 24, 2022

The system is not only beneficial for the agents but also for the customers. This not only increases customer satisfaction levels but also enhances customer experiences. An IVR system allows callers to interact with voice prompts or dial-pad inputs to navigate menus. Still have some confusion between ACD and IVR?

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Fonolo

MAY 17, 2017

In this blog, we’ll take a look through some essential infrastructure for the modern contact center, before taking a look at some emerging solutions that could greatly benefit your contact center. And it’s been well proven that if they have a choice, most customers will leave a brand after a poor customer experience.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Whether you’re an online business or a brick and mortar store, being able to provide great customer service is important to the success of your company. Help should never be hard to find for a customer; one way to make yourself easily and readily available is through live help software (also known as live support or live chat).

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UJET

DECEMBER 17, 2019

According to Gartner ’s 2019 Strategic Roadmap for Customer Service and Support Technologies (May 2019), “an organization’s CSS technology stack is often composed of disparate overlapping systems, leaving both customers and employees with a disjointed experience.” But Why Were Customer Support Tools Left Behind?

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It was published on their blog on May 29, 2015. Placing a call to customer support just got a little nicer and a little easier. Think about the last time you called a company's customer service number. I know how painful it can be to call customer service. I originally wrote today's post for Mattersight.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. So we do that for customers, and that’s the team I’m working on.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 11, 2016

We have documented research everywhere that customer experience is more valuable than the perceived financial number attached to your brand , but many schools are still teaching power branding and old-school sales funnels. Years ago, I was kicking around the idea of writing a book called The MBA of Customer Love. Customers defect.

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Fonolo

MARCH 7, 2023

Today’s customers are a demanding bunch. That’s where self-service comes in. Even if you provide 24/7 live support, there are many situations where a customer can’t get in contact or doesn’t have the time to wait for an agent to become available. TIP: Today, 70% of customers expect self-service options.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2017

When I work with clients, I always set up a “customer room,” which is another way of thinking about customer experience labs. I’ve written about this idea a few times , including in Chief Customer Officer 2.0. And now, customer experience labs have come en vogue in the last couple of years.

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Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Rise of Virtual Banking: IP PBX Software as the Backbone of Remote Financial Services Over the past few years, the state of virtual banking has evolved greatly with financial institutions utilizing digital technologies to provide innovative and expedient banking services. It offers a similar suite of services.

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Zendesk

JULY 30, 2021

This is a free BaseLinker add-on that shows the customer’s orders related to a given email address directly in the Zendesk panel view and one-click takes you to the correct order card in BaseLinker. Forget about the exhausting order database investigation – your customers will be answered faster.

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Customers That Stick

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Welcome to the brand new CTS Service Solutions and Customers That Stick™ website! Our wider, more flexible format allowed us to restructure our new navigation menu on the top of the page. You will notice more items both in the menu and in the submenu, which you can easily get to by placing your mouse over a menu item.

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