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What is an MGA in Insurance?

Lightico

This includes keeping track of all paperwork, paying bills, scheduling appointments, and handling customer complaints. Customer Service – MGAs must answer questions from prospective customers and handle any problems that arise. What are the advantages of becoming an MGA?

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Why the customer is not always right

Zendesk

If you’ve ever worked a day in the service industry, you’ve seen this slogan plastered on a break room wall. The idea was coined by a turn-of-the-century retailer, and it’s so common that many businesses make it a mandate for their customer service teams. That still doesn’t mean your customer is always right. Here’s why.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

If customers are being sent to the wrong department, then they tied up customer service personnel from helping the right people. Customer service diminishes. InsO International changed the call center and customer service arena by pioneering the world’s first hybrid call center solution. Alex Tebbs.

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5 Ways to Use AI to Support Your Support Team

TeamSupport

This lets them approach customer interactions with more intelligence than ever before (find out more about AI-powered and AI-integrated CRMs and get recommendations for products here ). Click to download our whitepaper on how strong customer service is a great growth strategy!

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Call Center, Contact Center and Customer Experience Events – April 2018

Taylor Reach Group

This event is a hub of ideas, inspiration and industry connections for customer service and customer contact executives who strive to innovate the customer experience. Customer Contact East: a Frost and Sullivan Executive Exchange April 8 – 11, Marco Island, FL. You’ll leave with answered to your top questions.

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Careers in Customer Experience: Demonstrating Results

Confirmit

I researched this in my Master’s thesis a few years ago: there were no undergraduate degrees in customer experience at that time (2012), and a quick search shows me that not much has changed in 2017. DePaul, Rutgers and several others offer customer service management certificates.

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Getting Inside the Customer’s Mind

Beyond Philosophy

He recalls a recent stay in Wisconsin where the hotel staff had seals on the door to indicate the room had been sanitized from its previous occupant. These same considerations of our mindset during the COVID Era also carry over into physical experiences.