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How Covid has Exacerbated the Customer Service Issue

Interactions

A recent study by the UK Institute of Customer Service found that complaints about poor customer service are at their highest levels since 2009. While initially sympathetic, consumers are now tired of being told that their long wait times on the phone or late deliveries are simply “because of Covid”. This benefit is two-fold.

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Live Chat for Higher Education – The Ultimate 101 Guide

Comm100

When students are more comfortable with online interactions than in-person ones, bringing higher ed live chat to colleges and universities is the only way to meet students on their terms. This means that agents can handle multiple chats at once compared to phone calls where only one conversation is possible at a time.

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Avoid Seasonal Highs and Lows with These Customer Experience Tips

CSM Magazine

It’s also a 50% increase from 2009’s record low of $4.06 Time and time again, organizations are losing customers to the black hole of wait times and inefficient processes during their seasonal bumps. There’s a reason for that: Retail sales hit a record of $6 trillion in 2018, according to the U.S.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

Fully customizable, Enchant includes features such as unlimited Help Desk Inboxes, smart folders that update in real time, multiple knowledge base sites with their own set of articles, multiple messengers in a single account with each pointing to a different team or configured for a different website.

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

Fonolo

As of this morning,” Air Canada’s media relations told us on March 29th, “the wait time on the dedicated line is virtually zero, although it may lengthen a bit through the day.”. These featured real-time flight tracking, electronic boarding passes, and itinerary change notifications.

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Great Ideas in Customer Service

Helpware

This should not only include customer satisfaction surveys, but numbers such as how many new e-mail conversations were started, average customer wait time and e-mail response time. Send Personalized Thank You Notes. Wufoo has pioneered this idea in 2008. You don’t have to brainstorm hundreds of ideas like Starbucks.

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Higher Education Chatbots – Everything You Need to Know

Comm100

During non-peak periods, the additional support capacity that chatbots provide allows faster resolutions to student queries and reduced wait times. For requests handled entirely by chatbots, students see no wait times, as a single chatbot can respond to an unlimited number of simultaneous chats with no delay.