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How To Optimize Your Support Strategy for Messaging Channels

Help Scout

It’s easy to add a new messaging support channel, but can your business deliver high-quality service through that channel at sufficient scale? Here are some ways in which you can make it happen.

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From sole ambassadors, to the heart of business decisions: the UX evolution of the last decade

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Dana Bishop, VP of Experience Research Strategy at UserTesting. Over the last decade, the user experience (UX) industry has not […] The post From sole ambassadors, to the heart of business decisions: the UX evolution of the last decade first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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GigCX Levels Up: 5 Key Takeaways from the 2023 GigCX Report

Customer Think

The 2023 GigCX Report features the results of Limitless’ annual GigCX survey, with headline data taken from over 400 CX leaders from the U.S. and U.K., and over 600 GigCX Experts across 34 countries in six continents, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, India, South Africa, France and Germany.

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Empowering Employees for Success: Fostering a Culture of Empowerment and Engagement

C3Centricity

Introduction: [Capture the reader’s attention by highlighting the importance of employee empowerment and engagement in driving organizational success. Explain how organizations that […] The post Empowering Employees for Success: Fostering a Culture of Empowerment and Engagement first appeared on c3centricity.

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The Pragmatic Path to Composability: Adapting to the Future through Modularity

Speaker: Jason Cottrell

Brands used to look for a vendor who could do everything. Over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, and they added, added and added. Now they need all their vendors to work well together. That’s composable, and only some will make the cut. As customers — and your board — expect you to be in new channels and to rapidly adapt to shifts in the market, the need for true composability is more crucial than ever before.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Help Scout

Help Scout

This guide will walk you through how to get started with Help Scout. You’ll learn all the fundamentals of the platform, from managing your mailbox to creating self-service support with Docs, Beacon, and more.

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The autonomous enterprise is like a North Star vision of where business is going – Interview with Kerim Akgonul and Peter van der Putten of Pega

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is like an interview I released a couple of weeks ago and features two, separate interviews that I conducted on a recent trip to […] The post The autonomous enterprise is like a North Star vision of where business is going – Interview with Kerim Akgonul and Peter van der Putten of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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A snapshot of CX in finance: trust as a guiding principle and a new Consumer Dut.

CX Network

Key learnings around generative AI, customer trust and new regulations from All Access: CX Financial Services 2023

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Using ChatGPT for Customer Service

Help Scout

How ChatGPT — or other generative AI tools — can be used to help answer customer service queries and deliver better service. How good is ChatGPT and in what other ways could it be used in customer service situations?

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SMS Queues: The Next Frontier in Enhancing Customer Experiences

Qmatic

Looking for a way to deliver better customer experiences? The solution is a lot closer than you think. In fact, it's already in your hands: smartphones.

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8 Best Practices for Designing a Helpful Contact Page

Help Scout

Your contact us page is the first place customers go for answers on your website. See contact us page examples from top companies for ideas on how to design yours right.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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The Ultimate Guide to Knowledge Base Management

Help Scout

Learn what a knowledge base is and discover how to plan, create, and deliver effective help center content to create better customer experiences.

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Customer Service vs. Customer Experience: Explained

Help Scout

The terms customer service and customer experience are often confused or used interchangeably. They’re not the same thing, but they are related.

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These 13 Stories of Remarkable Customer Service Will Put a Smile on Your Face

Help Scout

In a world where support is often thought of as a cost center, these remarkable customer service stories will remind you of its true potential.

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How Beacon Helps You Deliver Great Customer Service

Help Scout

Help Scout’s Beacon gives your customers access to email and live chat support, help documentation, and proactive messaging—all right where they need it.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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5 Ways to Automate Support Without Degrading Service

Help Scout

Customer support automation can leave customers feeling underappreciated. Here are 5 ways to automate without degrading service quality.

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GPT-3 and AI in Customer Support

Help Scout

GPT-3 has been making news recently, so it’s worth taking a look to understand what it is and how it might help with customer support.

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12 Customer Service Phrases to Use (+ 8 You Should Avoid)

Help Scout

Discover the 12 most useful customer service phrases for improving your support conversations, and learn which 8 common phrases you should avoid.

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16 Customer Service Tips to Never Forget

Help Scout

The best customer service tips can only come from world-class teams. Here are 16 tips for delighting your customers.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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7 Predictions for Customer Service and Support in 2023

Help Scout

Here are 7 important trends that will affect your work in customer service and experience for 2023, from supply chain recovery to AI-driven productivity.

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Quarterly Release Notes, September 2020: Article Ratings, New Messages Editor

Help Scout

Release Notes is our bimonthly update that highlights recent product improvements we’ve made so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new.

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Quarterly Release Notes, March 2020: COVID-19 Resources, Chat Ratings, and More

Help Scout

Release Notes is our bimonthly update that highlights recent product improvements we’ve made so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new.

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Quarterly Release Notes, November 2020: Advanced Permissions, Message Reports

Help Scout

Release Notes is our bimonthly update that highlights recent product improvements we’ve made so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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10 Live Chat Examples for the Entire Customer Journey

Help Scout

We've pulled together 10 creative live chat examples so you can see how useful chat can be in helping you meet a variety of company goals.

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How We Replaced Our Weekly All-Hands Meeting with Video

Help Scout

Weekly videos are a fun, easier-than-you-think alternative to all-hands meetings and boring email updates. Here’s how Help Scout does it.

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How Building a Community Can Supercharge Your Customer Service

Help Scout

Brand communities are helping companies supercharge their customer service with insights into customer needs, expectations and desires.

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Why All Hands Support Didn’t Work for Our Company

Help Scout

Anna Brozek, operations director at Big Cartel, explains why her company tried and eventually ended the practice of all hands support.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Relationship Marketing: The Value of Marketing to Current Customers

Help Scout

Relationship marketing is customer marketing strategy that emphasizes retention, loyalty, satisfaction, and lifetime customer value.

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21 Key Customer Service Skills (and How to Develop Them)

Help Scout

Learn what customer service is and why it's important. Discover the 21 customer service skills every support professional needs to thrive.

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6 Tips for How to Collaborate on Remote Design Teams

Help Scout

Remote designers face unique challenges and rewards. Here’s what we’ve found works for our distributed design team.

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How We Use Video to Build Remote Culture

Help Scout

Team building activities can often feel forced, but video is a surprisingly easy way to strengthen company culture and have fun.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper