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The Ultimate Guide to Small Business Customer Service

Help Scout

With access to fewer resources and generally leaner teams, small businesses need to be more creative and tactful in their approach to customer service. Armed with those insights and learnings, you should be able to get started on — or refine — your own customer service program to start delivering consistently exceptional support.

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Guest Post: 4 Ways to Transform Customer Experience While Growing Rapidly

Shep Hyken

Since I assumed the chief executive role, we have targeted our efforts on continuing to grow our service footprint, but doing so in tandem with delivering excellent customer care. This is often a tough act to balance: rapidly scaling up business while still providing personalized customer service.

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What’s the Downside of Tying Agent CSAT Scores to Their Performance?

SurveySensum

More than 90% of customers are likely to make repeat purchases from companies that provide excellent customer service. Furthermore, 86% of customers are willing to pay more to receive a better customer experience. Now, to understand and improve customer satisfaction, what metric do businesses measure?

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How support leaders measure (and improve) the quality of their customer support

Intercom

This last year has brought about an enormous shift in the way support teams work – and in customersexpectations of that support. Increasingly, we’re seeing that customers want digital-first solutions that allow them to get the support they need, on their own terms. How the support landscape is changing.

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Customer retention software: Everything you need to know

Zendesk

Customer retention software can help your company by improving communication and providing valuable data about your customers and internal processes. That information leads to better customer service and reduces churn. With customer retention software, businesses can: Flag and respond to at-risk customers.

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How are customer service metrics changing in the age of AI?

Intercom

An obsessive commitment to creating a great customer experience is a good first step, but that will only get you so far without one crucial ingredient: rigorous reporting on key customer service metrics.

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Your Guide to Simulation Training

Execs In The Know

Whether you are a financial services juggernaut like Western Union, a large consumer bank like Sallie Mae, or a SaaS startup wanting to develop winning customer service and sales teams, the benefits of Zenarate simulation training are numerous and significant.

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