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Make or Break: The Customer Experience Imperative for Midsize Businesses

Avaya

Integrate Multichannel Customer Contact into Your Strategy. An overwhelming majority of customers expect organizations to offer different channels to meet their needs, and make it easy to do so (Marcus Hickman, The Autonomous Customer 2015). Drive an Efficient Experience with Skills-Based Routing.

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Customer Service Trends 2017: An Effortless Customer Experience is Vital for Loyalty

Kayako

According to Forrester Research , “only 36% of contact centers have implemented multichannel integration to provide consistent experiences; 70% do not train agents to support multiple channels, and 56% do not offer an agent-facing knowledge management solution”. Most consumers expect ready access to support or help.

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Three Questions To Ask Yourself To Understand What Customers Really Want

COPC

For instance, would customers rather be placed on hold for a live person, be placed in a call-back queue, or be transferred to an IVR system to self-service? For the purposes of this post, focus will be placed on consumer preferences between assisted and unassisted customer care interactions.

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