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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 10-25-2021

ShepHyken

Read this article and learn more about what customers expect. 4 Ways Chatbots Can Fail at Customer Experience by Phil Britt. CMSWire) Chatbots continue to handle an increasing amount of customer support and other B2C and B2B interactions. 27 Helpful Customer Support Tools and Resources by Jesse Short.

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Guest Post: Reset Buyer Strategy to Drive Post-Pandemic Revival

ShepHyken

The impact extends from B2C (business-to-customer) markets to B2B (business-to-business) sales as well. A study by McKinsey Consulting in April 2020 indicated that digitally-enabled sales interactions were at least twice more important during the pandemic than they were in the pre-COVID-19 era.

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The 20 Stakeholder Experience Emotions: Which Are Most Positive and Value-Enhancing, and Which Are Most Negative and Value-Destroying?

Beyond Philosophy

Since 2005, over 50,000 respondents, in 49 countries and multiple b2b and b2c industries have participated in research incorporating the Hierarchy model emotions. In this post, we are addressing the perceived value influence of emotions and memory on b2b and b2c customers. Some additional stats: We have asked approximately 4.5

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Intersecting Viral Marketing With Emotional Customer Connection: TD Bank’s ‘Home Run’

Beyond Philosophy

As customers in all b2b and b2c sectors steadily become more actively digitized in their daily lives, companies are having to respond, and hopefully stay ahead, in the race to build stronger interpersonal relationships with them. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy.

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Guest Blog: How to Use Social Media to Provide Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

If your services fall under the B2B umbrella, for example, your customers are more likely to engage with you on LinkedIn as opposed to in B2C businesses. Not sure where your customers go when they’re online? Are people asking for customer support? Then try asking them, through a survey.

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Part 3: Helping Companies Build Stronger Customer Relationships

TeamSupport

The editors sat down with TeamSupport co-founder and COO, Eric Harrington, to talk about customer support in the time of COVID and building strong customer relationships in Part 1 of this series, and current trends and the future of B2B customer support in Part 2. What are the strategies employed by TeamSupport?

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Contact Center CX: Next Issue Avoidance

CX Accelerator

Last week, Brittany Naylor (Vice President of Customer Support for Service Direct) queued up a wonderful topic in our CX Accelerator slack channel. It was "Next Issue Avoidance" and how support leaders are bringing this critical concept to life. We are trying to be more consultative about new software releases."this