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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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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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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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Which banks are best for customer satisfaction?

The Customer Service Blog

The so-called ‘challenger bank’ Monzo has topped an official league table which charts whether customers would recommend their bank to family and friends. Its score of 80% was higher than all its rivals across the UK. The survey of 16,000 people placed Monzo first, Starling second, and First Direct third. Joint bottom of the table were Virgin Money and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) - both of which were recommended by only 48% of their customers in the survey.

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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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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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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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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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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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The Future of Customer Loyalty: Rewards, Retention, Appreciation, and More

Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One

Elevate your retail game by unleashing the power of customer loyalty! The holidays are the perfect time to redefine and reimagine your retail strategy, as modern customers are being re-engaged through creative retention tactics. Discover how the combination of loyalty management and MACH technology can revolutionize your retail strategy, ensuring sustained customer success through the holiday rush, into the new year, and beyond.

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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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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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Reimagining CX: How to Implement Effective AI-Driven Transformations

Speaker: Steve Pappas

As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.

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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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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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How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market

Help Scout

The way to stand out from the competition in a crowded market is to tailor your offerings to an underserved segment — here’s how.

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When Customers Win, You Win: How to Deliver Value That Transforms Your Customer Experience

Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.