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Is Ditching Phone Customer Support a Smart Decision?

TeamSupport

There’s an old saying – “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” – that sometimes rings all too true for customer support teams. When prioritizing support inquiries, there’s a hierarchy of channels. Chat is somewhere in the middle, with customers expecting a response in a few minutes. Reasons you need to KEEP phone support.

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From Chaos to Harmony: Why It Might Be Time to Change Your B2B Customer Support Software

TeamSupport

Companies want you to switch, but when it comes to B2B (business-to-business) customer support software, how do you know when it’s a good idea? To get started, here is a list of questions to ask yourself so you can better understand if you need to make a change with your support software.

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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. Nate Brown Love this challenge @brittanynaylor!

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Formal vs. Casual: Which Style Is Best for Customer Service?

Quiq

Business-to-consumer (B2C) conversations succeed when shoppers connect with entities that address their unmet needs and make things easier or more enjoyable. Adopting a casual style for most B2C interactions works well because it allows agents to come across as highly relatable and well positioned to understand individual situations.

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Formal vs. Casual: Which Style Is Best for Customer Service?

Quiq

Business-to-consumer (B2C) conversations succeed when shoppers connect with entities that address their unmet needs and make things easier or more enjoyable. Adopting a casual style for most B2C interactions works well because it allows agents to come across as highly relatable and well positioned to understand individual situations.

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Do Agents Require Hands-on Experience with your Products?

Nicereply

For this article, I spoke with six customer support and success leaders from various industries with different product offerings so they can share techniques you can use to make your team successful. Marc Bindlechner is the Director of Customer Service at Koala. Regis Eloi is the former Director of Customer Support at Salsify.

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The Age of Online Communities: How to Create Branded Communities and Why You Should Bother

CSM Magazine

Richardson’s definition, while revolutionary for its day, has become commonplace in today’s customer-centric world and has made the move from residing purely on the side of B2C to encompassing the B2B sphere too. Gone are the days of static one-sided advertising that speaks at the customer.