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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 12, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Everyone Hates Customer Service. Does everyone hate customer service? So, let’s find out why “everyone” hates customer service. Here are my top five picks from last week. This Is Why.

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Guest Post: Is Your Customer Journey Aligned with Brand Expectations? If Not, It Could Be Costing You Sales

ShepHyken

He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success. And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before. What is a contact center CRM? . Reduced customer churn .

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Contact Center and CRM: A Galactic Merging

Fonolo

Contact center software and CRM software have been on a slow collision course for decades. It’s not hard to understand why: They both deal with customer communication so the boundary was destined to get blurry. Why is it hard to figure out the spending split between CRM and call center software? The game is over.

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What are the customer service imperatives for 2019?

Answer Dash

(This article was originally published at IT-Online - The daily IT news publisher) Emerging digital trends are top of mind for customer service and support leaders in 2019, according to a recent survey by Gartner. Only then will they be able to truly differentiate their organisation and help drive growth.”

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How to improve you call center customer experience strategy for 2019?

TechSee

2019 will be a critical year for call center customer experience strategy: either they will finally move the needle or risk elimination. To deliver value in 2019, call center leaders must select a CX initiative that can immediately demonstrate ROI. The post How to improve you call center customer experience strategy for 2019?

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2019 State of CX Report from The Northridge Group

Peter Lavers

I was recently asked by The Northridge Group to review their 2019 State of Customer Service Experience report. 68% of consumers experience a long wait time to reach an agent while 64% say they experience difficulty when trying to navigate a company’s website.

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Contact Centers? Say Hello to 2019

Fonolo

Added to the mix were the frustrating dalliance with AI, the quasi-melding with CRM, the embrace of chatbots, and the rise of RPA. It’s reasonable that companies will be more reluctant to invest in Facebook Messenger as a customer service channel. The term “AI”: Less Promiscuous in 2019? Last Thing.