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

Fonolo

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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Amazon Takes Over The High Street! Are These Next?

Beyond Philosophy

Of course, the only reason they could buy Whole Foods is because the grocery chain founded in Texas in the late 70s has been suffering from declining same-store sales, among other challenges. Amazon is Thinking Out of the Box for Fashion Forward Customers. Not coincidentally, Amazon is crushing clothing sales, too.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

TeamSupport

There are more ways than ever for customers to get in touch with tech support. 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. Fun fact: TeamSupport was founded in 2008!

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Seven CX Tips to Help Weather the 2021 Holiday Season ‘Everything Shortage’

CSM Magazine

Now more than any other time of year, e-Commerce becomes a more dominant force in companies’ sales, and subsequently, online customer experience. In fact, 2021 is forecast to be one of the most treacherous holiday seasons since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The Great Resignation is also upon us.

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Guest Blog: In the CX world, tracking these metrics is a way of life!

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Bikash Mohanty about how important customer experience metrics are to your business. Companies that track and measure their customer service have a competitive advantage. seconds in 2008 with a mind boggling 19.19 Shep Hyken. Usain Bolt bettered his own 200 meters world record of 19.30

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Six Large UK Businesses Engage ECS for Contact Centre Transformation Projects in 2020

CSM Magazine

The firm is helping customers including Cazoo , Direct Line Group’s Green Flag business and South East Water , to boost their customer service using Amazon Connect. Amazon Connect is a self-service, cloud-based contact centre service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost.

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The importance of customer culture – an interview with Chris Brown

ijgolding

Although I was studying accounting and finance at the time, I started out in sales and marketing. It did not take long for me to start becoming interested in the customer service elements of the business. After a while, my role developed more down the sales route, looking after relationships with retailers.