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A History of Customer Support Technology

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Ever wonder what customer service looked like 50 or 60 years ago? Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. 1960s-1970s: Emergence of Call Centers The concept of providing on-demand customer support began with call centers in the 1960s.

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Amazing Business Radio: Nate Spears

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Nate Spears on Providing Exceptional Customer Service. Shep speaks with customer service evangelist and Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of ClearSource, Nate Spears, about providing exceptional customer service. Nate Spears co-founded ClearSource , a provider of outsourced business services.

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Quickline Speeds Up Customer Service in Contract With Makepositive

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Broadband specialists, Quickline Communications, speeds up customer service and service delivery in £1m+ contract with makepositive, part of Sabio Group. The £1m-plus collaboration marks an important milestone as Quickline continues to invest in optimising its operations and delivering exceptional services to its customers.

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Show and Sell: 3 Ways Customer Service can be Used as an Effective Marketing Tool

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Customer service is often not seen as the effective marketing tool that it is. It’s no surprise: on the surface, the two departments and their goals seem distinct from one another: Marketing is all about customer acquisition (or, attracting new customers), while customer service is all about customer retention.

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5 Ways to Improve Customer Service for Your Lending Business

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In this context, customer service is crucial to attract and retain clients and do good business. Improving customer service for lending businesses is vital. Why Is Customer Care Crucial for Lending Businesses? The landscape of customer care has changed in the past years. Or the lack thereof.

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Great Ideas in Customer Service

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Show Off Your Customer Service Team. If your customer service received great ratings from customers, don’t just hide in some backpages. Take the last 20 or so customer reviews and make it the focus of attention on your customer service page. So go public with your customer support team.

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How to Become a Customer Service Expert in 30 Days

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In late 2008 Malcom Gladwell published his book Outliers: The Story of Success. With these two incredibly different approaches in mind, here’s the challenge this article will answer: How can you become an expert in customer service in just thirty days? If you’re not already part of it, join the Support Driven Slack community.