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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 8, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Make Every Day Valentine’s Day by Showing Love and Empathy to Customers by Janelle Estes. Love (in the metaphorical sense) and appreciate your customers year-round. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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What Elephants and Customer Experiences Have in Common

CSM Magazine

So, in these tough economic times, what are the best customer service strategies to provide elephant-astic experiences? Jim Davies explores 5 brand- and money-saving customer experience (CX) options. This means they rarely forget wonderful or horrible customer experiences. Unleash the chatbot!

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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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5 Ways to Apply AI and Win Back Business

CSM Magazine

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Deploying a range of chatbots, each suited to a specific task, can greatly enhance the customer experience and deliver substantial benefits to the business.

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How to Stay Close to Customers While Working From Home

CSM Magazine

Deloitte’s MD of Applied AI practice, Sherry Comes has observed , “While robotic process automation (RPA) and one-touch ordering buttons are transforming many of these tasks, they don’t always provide the most customer or worker-centric experience. Enhancing Customer Experience.

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

Fonolo

It also led the continent in leveraging email and text messaging in notifying passengers of delayed or cancelled flights and gate change details in 2009, and in the same year released North America’s first airline mobile applications for Apple and Blackberry. VPs & Directors of Customer Experience. Successful case studies.

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Five Trends Shaping The Future Of Customer Experience In 2019

Answer Dash

(This article is first published at Forbes ) Before we get into my fifth annual piece on customer experience predictions, let me introduce myself to new readers. I started writing about customer experience for Forbes in 2014, simply because I thought it was interesting–I was fascinated by human behavior and by the idea of a brand.