aircall

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This hard-to-teach sixth sense of sales comes with the intuition of experience. Can these six phone sales tips substitute that experience? For example, according to sales blog, The Pipeline: 80% of sales calls go to voicemail. So it’s no secret that experience is a sales advantage that brings hard-to-teach skills.

Sales 62

Sales CRM voip Accountability 62

aircall

APRIL 27, 2018

The future of customer service is certain. According to one study , 90% of customers who call a company want to speak with a representative. Furthermore, companies use automation as a cost-saving measure, but when set up incorrectly, these processes can confuse customers. Visual representation of a confusing IVR system.

Interactive Voice Response 91

Interactive Voice Response Surveys Personalization Accountability 91

aircall

MAY 7, 2018

That being said, phone skills which enable supervisors and colleagues to “whisper” advice or instructions could result in more closed deals. If the speaking-agent needs information, advice, or encouragement, the “whispering” agent can discreetly help them out. Tag and transfer for timeliness. Remember to tag for easy analytics.

Sales 90

Sales CRM Morale Analytics 90

aircall

MAY 11, 2018

Aircall is the ideal Aircall customer. For this post, I spoke with representatives (tributes) from our customer success, technical support, and sales teams. Patrick — Customer Support. A customer support veteran, Patrick has supervised support teams in a variety of industries. Do you use the call tagging feature?

Technical Support 88

Technical Support Analytics APIs Engineering 88

Creative Virtual

JULY 1, 2021

Enterprise software pricing is often shrouded in mystery and the subject of intense negotiations between the supplier and customer. These tools come with a lower price tag but end up negatively impacting the organisation’s bottom line by harming the customer experience and eroding customer loyalty.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Virtual Agent Chatbots Consulting 52

aircall

JANUARY 11, 2023

Although these are important features to consider, they shouldn’t overshadow the importance of improving and enhancing your customer support team. . 89% of consumers are more likely to make another purchase after a positive customer service experience. No one likes feeling like a broken record, especially not your customers.

Customer centricity 62

Customer centricity Interactive Voice Response CRM Analytics 62

aircall

MAY 7, 2018

That being said, phone skills which enable supervisors and colleagues to “whisper” advice or instructions could result in more closed deals. If the speaking-agent needs information, advice, or encouragement, the “whispering” agent can discreetly help them out. Tag and transfer for timeliness. Remember to tag for easy analytics.

Sales 89

Sales CRM Morale Analytics 89

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Are you unable to cater to the customers’ needs and their grievances? Primarily, a help desk refers to the assistance and advice provided by a company/organization to its customers. The focus here is on end-user functionality, and hence, it mandates that customers’ needs and grievances be met and resolved in due time.

Wait times 143

Wait times Metrics Self service Feedback 143

Lumoa

JUNE 26, 2023

In fact, several companies, ranging from media to finance, are already investing in an omnichannel customer experience to boost their sales and revenue. You can also achieve similar figures by building an omnichannel customer experience tailor-made for your business. Customer Satisfaction Score – CSAT 3.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Metrics Banking Surveys 83

Eptica

JUNE 16, 2020

Author: Tom Walmsley - Business Development Manager As with the rest of the business world, customer service departments have been transformed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Many consumers have gone online for the first time or are doing more on the web, leading to a rise in customer service queries across many sectors.

Best practices 63

Best practices Technology Management Marketing 63

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO of The Success League. . Oh, Sales and Customer Success, you are my two favorite disciplines! Where else can you experience the thrill of fishing and the warmth of a long-term relationship? There is nothing like closing a big deal with a new customer!

Sales 98

Sales CRM Consulting Consulting 98

Mindtouch

MARCH 13, 2018

And while making this content available and discoverable can help meet the growing preference for self-service support, it can also deliver other benefits—benefits that extend beyond the self-service experience. Most of your customers are using Google to search for information. Search Visibility Throughout the Customer Journey.

Engineering 48

Engineering Self service Sales Management 48

Eptica

AUGUST 1, 2018

At the same time, working in customer service is a stressful and high-pressure job. This blog post, part of our series on optimizing CX with Eptica, therefore focuses on how our customer experience platform makes it easier for agents to operate effectively and happily.

Average Handle Time 70

Average Handle Time Best practices APIs Consulting 70

Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Author: Anne Beghin - Project Manager Optimizing CX with Eptica Given the importance of customer experience to the bottom line , it is vital that brands understand how they are performing on a day to day basis. That’s why here at Eptica we provide comprehensive reporting functionality as part of our customer experience platform.

Best practices 68

Best practices Average Handle Time Self service Contact Center 68

Eptica

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Author: Olivier Njamfa - CEO & Co-Founder The importance of trust to customer experience in 2019. Author: Olivier Njamfa - CEO & Co-Founder The balance of power between brands and consumers is shifting, with customers now wielding greater influence and control.

Customer Experience 77

Customer Experience Best practices Advertising Chatbots 77

aircall

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Do customers abandon your phone support lines more frequently than you’d like? It reflects your best guess at what customers will want and your best attempt at balancing your team’s limited bandwidth. Customer behavior won’t always align with your hypothesis, though. Create a Better Queue Experience. Build a Backup Plan.

Abandon rate 85

Abandon rate Abandon Call Entertainment Wait times 85

Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

You’ve designed your NPS survey and emailed it to all your customers—and the results are in… but not those you were expecting. When it comes to gauging customer sentiment and loyalty, few metrics enjoy such widespread acclaim as the Net Promoter Score (NPS). In this blog post, we’ll answer all these questions and more.

Customer centricity 83

Customer centricity Airlines Metrics Feedback 83

aircall

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Do customers abandon your phone support lines more frequently than you’d like? It reflects your best guess at what customers will want and your best attempt at balancing your team’s limited bandwidth. Customer behavior won’t always align with your hypothesis, though. Create a Better Queue Experience. Build a Backup Plan.

Abandon rate 81

Abandon rate Abandon Call Entertainment Wait times 81

Eptica

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 How customer service techniques can ensure a stress-free Christmas. Author: Pauline Ashenden With the holidays now nearly upon us, spare a thought for customer service teams who have to keep working right up to, and through, Christmas itself. Published on: December 23, 2015.

Customer Service 49

Customer Service Multichannel Contact Center Best practices 49

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Customer service and customer support may seem like semantics; even Google does not make a difference in them. Each of these terms is customer-facing disciplines, but they cannot be used in place of the other. When both these disciplines work in combination, they have the potential to create a remarkable customer experience.

Customer Support 146

Customer Support Customer Service Customer centricity Chatbots 146

aircall

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To succeed in the face of these skyrocketing targets—not to mention while resources remain relatively stagnant—customer-facing teams need to streamline low-value administrative tasks and focus on higher-value prospect and customer interactions. Spoiler alert: our customers experienced a 373% ROI. But first, why should you care?

CRM 62

CRM Wait times Consulting Consulting 62

Eptica

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Régine, you gave a fascinating speech at the Eptica 2016 Customer Day , looking at how digital transformation is impacting consumer behavior and expectations. For the benefit of blog readers, can you give us some more detail on what you are seeing happening in the market? Eptica: How do digital technologies change consumer behavior?

Technology 58

Technology Multichannel Employee engagement Chatbots 58

Vistio

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Listen to the full podcast recording here: Today we have with us Jenny Dempsey, the Consumer Experience Manager for Apeel Sciences and its sister company, FruitStand.com. With over 16 years of building and leading customer service and experience teams, she is also the co-founder of a customer service blog, CustomerServiceLife.com.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Customer Service Morale Engineering 52

ViiBE Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Great IT support can make all the difference for customers experiencing an issue with your product or service. If you take customer service seriously, you need to understand the importance of IT support in ensuring a good customer experience. Train your employees for customer satisfaction.

virtual call center 52

virtual call center call center software Contact Center Call Center 52

Eptica

JANUARY 6, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 What were the key customer experience topics in 2015? Author: Olivier Njamfa As we enter 2016, I’m already seeing plenty of predictions about what the year will bring for the customer experience and customer service markets. In descending order the top 5 blogs were: 1.

Customer Experience 50

Customer Experience Multichannel Self service Contact Center 50

Eptica

MAY 2, 2018

Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Author: Pascal Gauvrit Data Protection and GDPR within Customer Experience. Customer experience is very much at the frontline of data protection. Customer service teams are interacting with consumers every day, and accessing and using their personal information.

Customer Experience 49

Customer Experience Best practices Personalization Customer Service 49

Customer Service Life

MAY 21, 2018

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 29, 2018. The most alarming were those with high-quality scores but low CSAT — especially if you view quality as the company’s gauge of the customer experience and CSAT as the customer’s gauge. Click here to read the original. Average Handle Time (AHT).

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Metrics Contact Center Customer Experience Average Handle Time 68

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Progressive businesses are further engaging their customers via using social media. In this article, we have provided the main tips that help you utilize social media in order to provide exceptional service to your customers. Clients desire an experience that is reliable irrespective of the medium they make use of.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Accountability Analytics Metrics 40

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 25, 2018

For those just joining my blog series CSM from the Trenches , welcome. This series, now a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) , discusses trends, best practices, and advice that can help the frontline. She brings with her nearly 10 years of customer success, coaching, and other customer-facing experience!

Best practices 42

Best practices SaaS Coaching Sales 42

JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

It offers three plans, which are priced as follows: Plan Name Standard Premium Custom Monthly Pricing $30 per user per month $60 per user per month Quote available on request Annual Pricing $24 per user per month $48 per user per month Quote available on request Now, moving on to RingCentral. Let’s start with JustCall pricing.

Interactive Voice Response 52

Interactive Voice Response voip Analytics Contact Center 52

JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

This blog dives deep to pull out insights that help you choose. JustCall vs 8×8 is just another one of such conundrums where the long list of features and functionalities makes it difficult to tell which solution is right for you. Let’s start with JustCall. However, IVR is available for Contact Center plans only.

Interactive Voice Response 52

Interactive Voice Response Contact Center APIs Analytics 52

ClientSuccess

APRIL 20, 2017

Paul Pizza is a veteran in the Customer Success space with his experience starting in the late 1990’s when most didn’t even know what the term meant. Back when Paul first started working with customers, “Customer Success” was considered a hybrid between account management and customer service.

SaaS 40

SaaS B2B Engineering Best practices 40

LiveChat

APRIL 13, 2016

If you’ve read my latest post about lion customer taming, you may think: OK, I’ve seen a post about dealing with customer complaints , but there was nothing about dealing with complaints via social media ! And should you don’t react, they will draw a conclusion, that you don’t care about your customers and your PR.

Feedback 57

Feedback Personalization Customer Service Customer Experience 57

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether you are bringing aboard new live chat agents or setting up your live chat dream team for the very first time, you want to make sure that you are hiring agents that will have a positive impact on your team and your customers. In your opinion, what makes for great customer service? Download Free.

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Average Handle Time Customer Service Feedback Call Center 44

Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It’s hard to remember a time when Chatbots weren’t a hot (albeit, polarizing) topic in the customer service and tech industries. From customized Chatbots on major brand websites to Siri and Alexa in our own homes, it seems like Chatbots have entered the discussion (and our lives) for good. Source: Alex Knight. Why Chatbots?

Chatbots 50

Chatbots Contact Center Benchmark Chief Customer Officer 50

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2023

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) , not only are we passionate about providing customers with a variety of comprehensive technical solutions, but we’re also keen on deeply understanding our customers’ business processes. This method is called working backwards at AWS. Project background Milk is a nutritious beverage.

Technology 95

Technology Biotechnology Engineering Consulting 95

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 10, 2023

This blog post will go through how data professionals may use SageMaker Data Wrangler’s visual interface to locate and connect to existing Amazon EMR clusters with Hive endpoints. Customers can use SageMaker Studio universal notebook and write code in Apache Spark , Hive , Presto or PySpark to perform data preparation at scale.

Engineering 76

Engineering Big data Enterprise Analytics 76