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Guest Blog: Instant Customer Service – Just Add Text Message

ShepHyken

This means that there are potential process or technical issues within the customer service department that can’t support customers in a timely manner. No matter what the issue is, it is important to have customer support in as many channels as possible.

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The Rise Of Messaging In Customer Service

Nicereply

Such high levels of engagement indicate that customers are onboard with messaging their favorite brands via SMS. WhatsApp started in 2009, but it took off after Facebook acquired it in 2009. Track orders, booking confirmations, customer support. Messaging in customer service is here to stay. Varies by BSP.

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How Vivino Set Up Their Contact Center in a Day: It was Simple

Talkdesk

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Vivino has been at the center of the movement to digitalize the wine industry since it was founded in 2009, taking the wine-buying experience mobile with an app that allows for image recognition, community reviews and intelligent behavior monitoring.

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How Vivino Set Up Their Contact Center in a Day: It was Simple

Talkdesk

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Vivino has been at the center of the movement to digitalize the wine industry since it was founded in 2009, taking the wine-buying experience mobile with an app that allows for image recognition, community reviews and intelligent behavior monitoring.

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Social Customer Service Rankings: Where Do You Stack Up?

Chad Schaeffer

Consumers were rapidly adopting email as an innovative communication method and big companies were trying to figure out how to manage this incredibly modern support channel. Overnight major brands were receiving millions of support emails a year. Wow have times changed in the past 5 years with the emergence of social customer service!

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Great Ideas in Customer Service

Helpware

Not only will this give prospective customers confidence in your company, but it will also reaffirm the belief that you have in your customer service team. So go public with your customer support team. Be there for Your Customers at a Moment’s Notice. Publish Your Customer Service Reports. Start small.

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The CX Storytime Tale of The Disappearing Digits

Russel Lolacher

Whether it was renting a top loading VCR or adding an iPod supported speaker to their sound system or investing in the latest expensive tech for Paul’s metal and wood work in the garage, they always made sure they weren’t too far behind the curve when adopting these new tools. Computers however, were a totally different beast. Same result.