The Customer Service Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Amazon customers are being targeted in a new ‘brushing scam’ where unscrupulous retailers send out Suzhichou branded scarves to boost sales volumes and create fake reviews on the Amazon website. Customers who are affected by the scam are being advised that there is no cause for panic, but they should report the unwanted package to Amazon.

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Social Media Retail Sales Customer Service 52

Experience Investigators

MARCH 7, 2023

Better Customer Journeys Require Improving Your Customer Intelligence With Operational & Experiential Data In an ideal world, customer experience would be built, improved, reviewed, and evolved based on real-time intelligence. Yet most of us don’t live in this ideal world and need to work with what we have.

Net Promoter Score 98

Net Promoter Score Touchpoint NPS Customer Satisfaction 98

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 7, 2019

So keep that in mind as I talk about technology for customer experience. This is exciting because we communicate with our customers via text whether it’s through inbound support messages, transcribed phone calls, or voice of customer survey responses. Let’s look at an example where we see NLP at work in the CX.

AI 275

AI Machine Learning CX Net Promoter Score 275

SurveySensum

MARCH 20, 2024

Did you know that 72% of customers will share a positive experience with 6 or more people? If not, then you are missing out on A LOT of opportunities to boost your customer satisfaction. Now, understand the importance of creating a positive customer experience for your customers. And how to facilitate this?

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Customer Experience Management CXM Customer Experience Text Analytics 52

CSAT.AI

JANUARY 25, 2023

Surveys have borne this out in the US. WFH and Hybrid Future in Contact Centers Contact Center Pipeline (with the Work from Home Alliance) surveyed contact center leaders from various industries in 2022 about hybrid and WFH models. Only 7% seek to have supervisors in-office full time.

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Contact Center Sentiment Analysis AI CX 96

Logicalware

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It’s common knowledge that happy employees make happy customers. However, with heightened demand and changing customer expectations, contact centres and their agents find themselves in a pressured situation, ultimately affecting the customer experience. They also see a 16% increase in first-contact resolution rates.

Customer Satisfaction 52

Customer Satisfaction AI Innovation Customer Experience 52

Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

However, the world’s call centers are arguably the most public examples of companies’ outsourcing efforts, facing customer directly in one-on-one interactions. Of course not all call centers are outsourced, nor are all call centers purely customer-facing operations. The need for competent customer support is growing.

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

These aren’t IT projects, they’re business strategies to drive customer-led growth. In this article, I explore how B2B businesses are integrating various channel and touchpoint technologies to create a consistent, frictionless customer experience. Teams can automate and track activities.

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Helpt

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SMBs face a unique challenge in the competitive marketplace - standing out from the competition while maintaining growth and profitability. One way to achieve this goal is by investing in customer experience. This can help to build trust and loyalty with your customers and lead to increased revenue.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Customer Loyalty Customer Satisfaction Customer Acquisition 52

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Start-ups Engineering B2C B2B 189

Lumoa

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Voice of Customer (VoC) is not a new concept. It’s a strategy that many companies have used for years to understand and prioritize customer needs. In this article, we’ll go over what Voice of Customer data analytics is and the different types. In This Article: What is Voice of Customer Analytics?

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Zendesk

JUNE 29, 2023

Powered by Generative AI, the platform can automate customer experiences with chatbots and voicebots across channels while significantly reducing operational costs. Solve customer inquiries faster with access to relevant information from TikTok Shop, such as order, shipping, payment, and return information—all without leaving Zendesk.

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Futurelab

MARCH 20, 2022

Customer expectations were already changing before COVID-19, but the pandemic has amplified them and accelerated new expectations. These changes drove GetFeedback , the agile customer experience (CX) management solution by Momentive, to conduct research among 2,200 CX professionals worldwide. Their words, not mine.)

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InteractionMetrics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos famously quipped, “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000.” What’s Customer Feedback? It comes in a variety of forms: Survey answers to rating questions (e.g., Why Is It Important?

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the dynamic world of startups, where every decision can make or break a company’s future, customer experience (CX) stands out as a critical factor for success. It’s not just about having a great product or service; it’s about how you make your customers feel when they interact with your brand.

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CX Social Media Touchpoint Customer Acquisition 59

Shep Hyken

JULY 26, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Negative Employee Experiences Can Translate Into Poor Customer Service, Report Says by Emilie Shumway. (HR How to Build Customer Loyalty with a Thank You Page by Thomas Griffin. Consider the opening stats.

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Customer Service Customer Retention Contact Center AI 92

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The CDP Institute just published its annual Member Survey, which is always a treasure chest of interesting data. The need for unified customer data has now been so widely understood for so long that we just naturally assume that more companies will have developed it. But both measures fell in the current survey.

Technology 59

Technology Technology 59

Zendesk

AUGUST 3, 2022

But with more people doing their business and their banking online than ever before, it is challenging for fintechs to differentiate their offerings from traditional financial service providers who have online offerings as well. Needless to say, customer expectations are sky-high, but not all companies are keeping pace.

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CX Omnichannel Start-ups Customer Service 98

Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

PlentyMarkets App by LEAFWORKS PlentyMarkets App by LEAFWORKS (Support) links Plentymarkets customers and their order history to your Zendesk tickets. The Plentymarkets app automatically checks and links Plentymarkets users from all different marketplaces and their order history directly to Zendesk tickets.

Hospitality 52

Hospitality Hospitality Sentiment Analysis AI 52

SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I am thrilled to share the global launch of SugarOutfitters , the new marketplace for SugarCRM add-ons and integrations. SugarOutfitters is a curated marketplace of high quality third-party apps and add-ons that pass a rigorous certification. New listing services for CRM consulting and development services.

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E-commerce CRM Customer Satisfaction 50

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I complain a lot about companies that get Customer Experience wrong. Today, I am going to take another angle and explore how one company has taken on the Customer Experience journey and gets it right. RICOH Canada has done some incredible work in improving Customer Experience. The RICOH Canada Backstory.

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Customer Experience NPS Net Promoter Score B2B 126

Zendesk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Digital customer experiences are critical for surviving in a connected world. According to a survey of C-suite executives, more than 70% of CIOs increased investments heading into 2021 to improve customer experience. With a good customer experience, your customers also expect security and privacy.

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MattsenKumar

MAY 18, 2021

The story highlights how customers in retail stores decreased by 25% in Q1, 2020, and by 75% in Q3, 2020. While the number of players has grown, spending on e-commerce has increased by 40% and industrial funding touched new heights, customer churn has also increased. What is E-commerce Customer Churn?

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E-commerce Net Promoter Score Engineering Social Media 52

Totango

MARCH 6, 2020

Voice of the Customer best practices turns words into action. The feedback your VoC efforts provide are the unique perspective of your own customers, and the actions you take based on that feedback add value to their experience. Your customers speak to you in all manner of ways beyond a direct Q&A format. What is VoC?

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Both Amazon and Apple have nurtured their business growth by investing heavily in reducing friction in their customer experience. The rest of the marketplace has followed suit; the average budget allocated to customer service and support has grown substantially in the last few years. Stop making customers call you!

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Customer Experience Contact Center Touchpoint CX 141

Shep Hyken

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Mitel , a company that works with teams by supporting their communications and technology needs so that they can provide the best customer experience possible. 2023 will be all about customer lifecycle management (CLM). They share their top 5 unified communications predictions for 2023.

AI 65

AI Contact Center Technology Technology 65

SurveySensum

AUGUST 4, 2023

In today’s competitive marketplace, building strong customer loyalty has become a game-changer for retailers. And by delivering personalized customer loyalty programs, retailers can deliver a great customer experience in retail. billion in 2022 and is projected to grow from $6.47 billion in 2023 to $28.65

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Customer Loyalty Retail Customer Feedback Text Analytics 52

CSAT.AI

AUGUST 3, 2022

Lego receives in excess of 4 million customer calls per year. Many of those calls are for replacement pieces that customers have lost. These happy customers feel lucky to have found Lego as a company. . That is a great prompt for how to go about creating happy customers who feel lucky to find your product.

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Entertainment Sports Innovation Gaming 102

Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The customer is a mysterious creature. Deciphering the wants and needs of your customers is essential for sustainable, long-term success. For a company to grow, it needs to convert one-off customers into regular patrons. In customer experience, as with any other business endeavor, failure to plan is planning to fail.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score NPS Start-ups 83

Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The customer is a mysterious creature. Deciphering the wants and needs of your customers is essential for sustainable, long-term success. For a company to grow, it needs to convert one-off customers into regular patrons. In customer experience, as with any other business endeavor, failure to plan is planning to fail.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score NPS Start-ups 83

Experience Investigators

JANUARY 23, 2024

Customer experience leaders are not just expected to keep up with trends in the marketplace, customer expectations, and technology, we simply MUST do so to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. Customers often crave personal, empathetic connections and some bots simply aren’t up to the task.

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Customer Experience Close the Loop Customer Journey Map Omnichannel 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Every business operates within the context of the marketplace. Customers can have changing needs and preferences, and global events can influence your industry. Market research is also a lucrative field to enter, as many firms and organizations see the value of their services. Know who they are.

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Non-Profits Finance Government Start-ups 52

Totango

JULY 22, 2022

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. We are constantly adding innovative new apps to our Customer Journey Marketplace , including our newest Engage Customers SuccessBLOC.

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Scorecard NPS Customer Retention Start-ups 100

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 1, 2022

For our I’m in a Pickle feature on the podcast, Tina in New Zealand wrote to us because the engineering firm she works with thinks customer relationships are a waste of time. She wants to know how to convince the engineers that customer relationships are what get the customer strategy gears turning toward long-term success.

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Customer Relationship Engineering Management Consulting Start-ups 103

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That feeling is what businesses aim to achieve in order to keep customers happy and satisfied and keep coming back for more. But why is it important to improve customer satisfaction? Because acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing one. So, what exactly is customer satisfaction?

Customer Satisfaction 52

Customer Satisfaction Social Media Touchpoint Omnichannel 52

SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That feeling is what businesses aim to achieve in order to keep customers happy and satisfied and keep coming back for more. But why is it important to improve customer satisfaction? Because acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing one. So, what exactly is customer satisfaction?

Customer Satisfaction 52

Customer Satisfaction Social Media Touchpoint Omnichannel 52

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 9, 2015

The demand for corporate social responsibility continues to sweep the brand marketplace. Competition in the marketplace is fierce. My angle is typically about Customer Experience. I regularly beat the drum of evoking the right emotions from your Customers with your Customer Experience and brand promise.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Relationship Customer Experience 109