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Guest Blog: What is Outsourced Customer Support and Why Do You Need it

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Costi Teleman who writes about the importance of excellent customer support and what to look for when outsourcing your support team. Your business may have the best products and services in the industry, but without effective customer support, consumers would likely not care about your brand.

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Guest Blog: Exceptional Customer Support Is Fresh, Not Canned

ShepHyken

Forced to listen to fake-happy ‘customer care’ puppets reading from scripts? The dissatisfaction you’ll be left with goes both ways: the cost of disappointed customers is high for companies, too. After just one bad customer support experience, trust in a brand is gone forever. Ever been put on hold for three hours?

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Guest Blog: The 8 Elements of Customer Support Quality

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be….

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This Doesn’t Have to Keep You Up at Night: How to Seamlessly Transition Your Outsourced Customer Care Program

BlueOcean

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. The Importance of a Smooth Transition in Your Outsourced Customer Care Transitioning your outsourced customer care program from one partner to another is a complex undertaking.

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Other Approaches to Bilingual Customer Care Support But, as the title of this blog implies, a live agent model might not be the best option for all of your language requirements.

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The Vcare Top 50 Customer Care Influencers

Vcaretec

When it comes to customer care across major industries, like Retail & E-Commerce, Wireless & Telecommunications, and Healthcare, there are plenty of smart minds out there. As a leader in outsourced customer service solutions, the customer care specialists at Vcare voted on fifty of the top thought leaders in our space.

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16 Omnichannel Customer Care Tips For Holiday 2015

Vcaretec

One of the pillars of holiday customer care in 2015 is omnichannel support. Retailers cannot have any downtime across channels, from phone support, to their website, email, live chat, or on social media. At Vcare, we help clients get more out of their customer care channels, especially during the holidays.