ProProfs Blog

MAY 6, 2020

That’s why your business needs to work towards building a customer experience that: Encourages customers to become loyal to your brand . Prompts them to share their awesome experience with your brand on public platforms. Helps you bring in new customers via word-of-mouth publicity. Future of Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience B2B B2C Sales 99

OctopusTech

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

As the teen years have ended with great successions of technological advancements, 2020 has brought innovative hopes for customer support outsourcing. Forrester predicts that brands will spend $8 billion more on customer service agents in 2020 than the previous year. Automation Backed Support.

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outsourcing Customer Support Engineering Self service 71

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. CX50 2020: Great customer experience starts with company culture by Morag Cuddeford-Jones. He’s “in the trenches,” and running customer support centers.

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Customer Service outsourcing Contact Center Customer Support 187

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 12 Ways to Celebrate Customer Service Week by Vanessa Brangwyn. While many people think this is a celebration about our customers, it is just as much a celebration about our people who take care of our customers.

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Customer Service B2B B2C Call Center 213

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service Guide to Revenue Generation by Gladly. My Comment: This is a special report from Gladly regarding the contact center’s role in delivering a great CX that gets customers to want to come back.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Customer Experience Marketing 236

Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe – If you were going to hire a character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to spearhead the customer experience effort in your organization, who would it be? Best Uses of AI in Customer Service – AI will continue to be an area of intrigue in 2020.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chatbots Customer Experience 149

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 3 Ways To ‘Innovate’ The Customer Experience by Sanjay Monga. This is what will help customers choose you over your competition. Conversion rates can be boosted greatly by improving customer experience.

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Customer Service B2C Government Call Center 209

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. This excellent article from the good people at CCW, who put on several amazing conferences for the customer support world cover eight strategies in the contact center. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Journey mapping Contact Center Customer Experience 260

Nicereply

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When it comes to knowing what customers really want, data can be illuminating. Zendesk’s 2020 Customer Experience Trends Report dropped earlier this month, combining the data of the 45,000 companies using Zendesk with an external survey of thousands of agents, managers and customers. What does this mean for you?

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Self service B2C 100

Fonolo

JANUARY 22, 2020

Wondering what customer service or contact center conference to attend in 2020? Particularly in an industry like customer support, it’s so important to be around people who are working on the same things and can understand what it’s like to be in our shoes. Chief Customer Officers USA, Atlanta. CX Talks, Dallas.

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Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Call Center 129

ShepHyken

JUNE 15, 2018

This week we feature an article by Ayush Chaudhary who writes about the social media customer support experience. Social customer service allows you to take the interactions with your customers to an even higher level. – Shep Hyken. Think of it as a telephonic IVRS analog for customer support.

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Chatbots Customer Support Healthcare Scripts 189

ShepHyken

APRIL 27, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. “Giving back” is part of the customer experience. Forbes) If your company is struggling, transforming your customer support into a 5-star experience can inject new life into your business.

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Customer Service Government Coaching Customer Experience 203

Nicereply

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In 2019, as predicted, customer experience has become one of the crucial business strategies for leading brands. Customer experience is the new battleground for leading organizations worldwide. It also has been found that almost 86% of the buyers are willing to pay extra for rich customer experience.

Customer Experience 90

Customer Experience Transportation Customer centricity Analytics 90

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She writes about preparing a productive and successful customer experience strategy and why it’s important to have one. This summer, The Petrova Experience conducted a Customer Experience Preparedness Survey. One of our questions assessed brand maturity in terms of customer experience strategy.

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Customer Experience Airlines Customer centricity Surveys 348

ShepHyken

MAY 18, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Loyalty Is Flat. This is an interview of three customer success executives discussing the always-important topic of customer retention. Here are my top five picks from last week. by Rachel Lane.

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Customer Service Customer retention Banking Customer Support 232

ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How to Increase Customer Loyalty: 5 Customer Retention Strategies by Christopher Hutchens. Mastering the 3 C’s of Customer Experience by Beyond The Arc. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 232

Customer Service Customer retention Customer centricity Education 232

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What Is Voice of the Customer and What Does it Mean for Customer Experience? 37 Customer Experience Statistics You Need to Know for 2021 by Toma Kulbyt?. by Scott Clark.

Customer Service 189

Customer Service Chatbots Metrics Wait times 189

ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

In this blog, we aim to collate various customer engagement statistics in one place that will give you an idea about various aspects of engagement with customers. Customer Engagement Statistics 2020 Explained. More than 60 percent of failed customer support calls could have been solved with better access to data.

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B2B Banking Personalization Employee engagement 204

ShepHyken

MAY 4, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience is the way! Epikonic) What is the experience gap? The Ultimate Customer Experience by Josh Linkner. 7 Guidelines Starting Customer Experience by Christine Crandell.

Customer Service 239

Customer Service B2C B2B Contact Center 239

ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

They’ll even read white papers and live chat statistics to understand the current trends of the customer support industry. These statistics of live chat on the website will help you learn its relevance for your business and how its use can help your support team manage customer expectations. And, that’s not all.

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Wait times Customer Support Transportation Sales 135

ShepHyken

MARCH 23, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. An open letter on customer service during a pandemic by Paul Selby. 7 Customer Service Email Tips That Will Boost Customer Experience by Syed Balkhi. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Customer Support 177

Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Customer Think.

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Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Call Center 136

Guru

JULY 23, 2020

Providing great customer experience is vital in our modern world. A recent survey found that 66% of consumers rate experiences over price when they make a purchasing decision. Now is the time to look at the customer experience you provide and determine how you can spruce it up — even if you are on a tight budget.

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Customer Experience Surveys Customer Support 123

Fonolo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The State of the Contact Center in 2020 is a far cry from where we expected it to be this time last year. Read the Full Report, FREE: Download The State of the Contact Center in 2020 Industry Report. In last year’s Contact Center Trends 2020 report, we predicted that there would be a mass migration to the cloud over the coming years.

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Contact Center Coaching Education Analytics 126

Fonolo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With change and uncertainty looming thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can count on one thing for sure — that your customers will be leaning heavily on your customer support team. Your best bet is to plan and prepare in advance, so your agents and customers alike are set up for success! Look at your historical data.

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Call Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Contact Center 132

ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Everyone says that customer support used to be easy. For an 18th century blacksmith, the questions and concerns from customers were pretty simple. At least it was obvious that customers would simply walk to the store whenever they needed support. . Customer support is not rocket science.

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Customer Support Surveys Inbound sales Construction 160

ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Efforts to retain customers, help you formulate effective loyalty programs that your customers enjoy being a part of. Let’s take a look at customer loyalty statistics and observe the various ways that help a business improve and boost customer loyalty. Customer Loyalty Statistics 2020 You Shouldn’t Miss.

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Customer retention Sales B2B Marketing 164

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From social media posts to Google and Yelp reviews, every buyer can recount their customer experience with your company to a global audience. It is no wonder, then, that businesses have started paying much closer attention to their customer experience (CX) strategy.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Chatbots Analytics SaaS 83

ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. Here are eight different ways to streamline your customer support. I like them all.

Customer Service 382

Customer Service Customer Support Surveys Self service 382

TeamSupport

MARCH 31, 2021

Self-service is still good customer service. Offering an option for customers to help themselves can give your customer support reps more time to focus on improving the big-picture aspects of your service strategy. And the right customer support software makes it easy to give customers what they want when they need it.

Self service 98

Self service Customer Support Interactive Voice Response B2B 98

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Customer support is currently standing at a crossroads: One road leads to exciting automated technologies, and the other to the ‘human touch’. Despite these advancements, the human element still rules as the best way to deliver efficient customer support. 24x7x365 availability and customer support is the new normal.

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Customer Support Contact Center Benchmark contact center solutions 139

ProProfs Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

The promise of a delightful customer support experience comes with the responsibility of actually delivering it consistently. Just buying and installing the latest customer support software onboard does not automatically mean that you will provide a great experience to your customers.

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Customer Support Chatbots Customer centricity Enterprise 163

ShepHyken

MARCH 23, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. An open letter on customer service during a pandemic by Paul Selby. 7 Customer Service Email Tips That Will Boost Customer Experience by Syed Balkhi. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Customer Support 120

TeamSupport

JANUARY 12, 2021

ServiceXRG and TeamSupport have joined forces to create a comprehensive study of the Support industry that is now available for download. Support continues to be the preeminent technical resource for resolving customer issues and advocating for product usability and performance enhancements. Key Imperatives for Support.

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B2B Customer Support Technical Support Coaching 86

ShepHyken

JUNE 1, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 3 Things That Will Boost Your Reputation For Great Customer Service by Mark Armstrong. My Comment: If you are in a customer support/contact center, then this article is a must-read. How do you scale up?

Customer Service 168

Customer Service Multichannel Call Center Contact Center 168

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Email is a foundational pillar of customer support. And yet, although companies have had a long time to perfect their email customer communications, many still fumble when it comes to this support channel. According to a benchmark report by SuperOffice, 62% of companies do not respond to customer service emails at all!

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Best practices Customer Support Benchmark Metrics 52

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Email is a foundational pillar of customer support. And yet, although companies have had a long time to perfect their email customer communications, many still fumble when it comes to this support channel. According to a benchmark report by SuperOffice, 62% of companies do not respond to customer service emails at all!

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Best practices Customer Support Benchmark Metrics 52