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Guest Post: When You Need to Scale Up Customer Service… But Your AI Just Doesn’t Quite Cut it Yet

ShepHyken

An “unsupervised” AI bot has led businesses to receive sudden surges in negative feedback, bad reviews, and increased churn. Every customer in the world, including myself, will always choose “talk to a person” or “connect to a representative” as the first choice over a call. It’s natural to look for automated solutions first.

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Guest Post: How To Collect Marketing Insights That Can Improve Customer Service

ShepHyken

Consumer Research is not merely asking your customers what they want; although there are some valuable insights here, they may also falsify the results because they often provide feedback on what they think they want, which doesn’t always correlate to how they spend their dollars. Primary Research. Analyze Data.

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Understanding Negative NPS Score: Causes, Impact and Solutions

Lumoa

As per research, 79% of customers put as much weight on online reviews as they would on personal recommendations. That’s the power of responding positively to customers’ negative feedback. Negative Online Reviews or Ratings Your online review reputation goes a long way in shaping consumer opinion about your business.

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What's the Difference Between NPS and Customer Engagement?

PeopleMetrics

Net Promoter Score (often abbreviated as NPS) is a measure of a customer’s likelihood of recommending you to another person or company. You won't see the benefits of listening and responding to customer feedback until you get started. Paris Novembre 2008. Using Net Promoter Score. Want to learn more? Linda Tanner. ,

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Finding Greater Success as a Leader in your Call Center: 5 Soft Skills Every Manager Needs to Get a Leg Up on the Competition

SharpenCX

Soft skills are often seen as personality traits. Your job also requires you to care for and manage a whole team of individual personalities with needs and career goals. You handle escalated customer issues, offer feedback to your agents, coach and train. Sure we can say, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.”

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

I see the CX industry finding new, faster and more efficient ways to meet their customers’ needs, maybe through the use of new technology, while also balancing a deeply personal, empathetic human connection.”. Sometimes, you just need to speak to a person. The Great Contact Center Diaspora. Up from just 2.2% The Value of Metrics.

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Why the Biggest Contact Centers Have the Least Effective Call Scripts

Balto

As we discussed in our report comparing how in-person and remote agents use scripts , remote agents are the most likely to view their scripts as ineffective. Remote agents are not able to take cues from the agents’ around them or easily flag their managers over for feedback on best practices. Despite What Their Managers Think.

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