Nicereply

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today we will go through 12 things to do to improve your customer support in 2022. Each month, choose a new focus and commit to integrating it within your support team. 12 things to do to improve your customer support. Blog tip: 3 Customer Service Skills for Handling Difficult Conversations.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Well, plenty of knowledge base search experiences are … well … bad. Negatively impacts customer success KPIs like customer satisfaction, NPS®, and CES. Causes customers that would have otherwise self-served to call in to customer support. Increases ticket volume and customer support costs.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 16, 2018

There are a lot of reasons a customer support agent might be unhappy. Regardless of the reason, an unhappy group of support agents can make for unhappy customers and seriously impact customer experience KPIs. Wherever you find agent burnout, dissatisfied customers are not far away.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Reduce support tickets A quarter (25%) of support cases are opened for topics already addressed in the support site and/or knowledge base. Leveraging AI in customer support can significantly reduce customer effort.

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aircall

MAY 16, 2017

As a field and as a department, customer support is no longer relegated to the kids’ table. Customers are afforded more options than ever, and as a result, their expectations in terms of service and support are soaring. In order to satisfy them, your business requires a crack support team. What do they do?

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GetFeedback

MAY 17, 2018

Great customer support looks very different than it did a decade ago. Technology has given support teams incredible ways to reach the modern customer. Once upon a time, customer support agents would split their time between one or two channels (usually phone and email). Want to boost support efficiency?

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 24, 2019

Today’s customers have high expectations for support. In order to meet this demand, your team needs modern customer support tools that aid their efforts in providing the best customer experience possible. Here I’ll share the top 5 customer support tools that you need for your team.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

That, and the crucial ways self-service can impact customer support KPIs. A bad (or absent) self-service strategy can create support ticket backlogs, overtaxed support teams, and frustrated customers, eventually impacting the bottom line. You could implement a comprehensive knowledge base and community forum.

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Mindtouch

APRIL 11, 2018

Executed well, a web self-service experience can be your 24/7 customer support department. Support cost reducer. The call to optimize your knowledge base for mobile has never been stronger. Customer satisfaction and customer effort surveys. Your ticket deflector. Optimize for mobile.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 31, 2018

Measure self-service content with knowledge base surveys. The majority of customers prefer to figure things out on their own. With self-service resources like a customer knowledge base, you can give them the power to resolve problems themselves, which reduces work on your end.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How can we bypass the milestones of Omnichannel and a useful knowledge base, while expecting to virtualizesupport? Great knowledge and harmonized service across all channels are the foundation on which AI will rest. Back to CX Accelerator Blog Nate Brown is the Co-founder of CX Accelerator.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 16, 2018

As customers reply, you can keep track of your average score and segment responses by specific criteria (like customer type, region, agent, etc.) to dig deeper into support quality. Customer Effort Score (CES). Offering quick and effective support is the surest way to make your customers happy.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Consider Common Customer Challenges. Monitor Customer Service Metric Levels. How to Set Measurable Customer Service Goals. Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT). Customer Effort Score (CES). How to Make Sure You Reach Your Measurable Customer Service Goals. Treat Every Customer With Complete Attention.

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Mindtouch

MAY 30, 2018

Give me any customer support team and I can guarantee that figuring out how to reduce support tickets is a top priority. That’s because high ticket volume puts a strain on support agents, frustrates customers, and can create quite the financial expense. But ticket deflection is more than an important metric.

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Nicereply

JULY 13, 2021

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. Regis Eloi is the former Director of Customer Support at Salsify. appeared first on Customer Happiness Blog.

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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Customers have great experiences when they face no roadblocks while using a product or receiving a service. When people need help, customer support is crucial. Good customer service can change a customer’s perception from “this doesn’t work” to “this works great” within a few minutes. Tool: WotNot. Tool: Nicereply.

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Mindtouch

APRIL 26, 2018

Knowledge base articles. That’s because today’s customer is educated. Because product documentation that shows up where people are looking for it inherently enables customer self-service. It makes it easier for customers to find the answers themselves. Proprietary knowledge, for example. Help content.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The value to your organization is making the data accessible to the people who can use it to improve your customer experiences. And who most frequently speaks to your customers? There are many uses for customer data. All without support involvement, but very much representing a savings of support time.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 15, 2018

Self-service content is playing a more prominent role because it has very little of the sales-and-marketing-y aspects that sometimes drive customers away. Think knowledge base articles, FAQs, and customer stories. Testimonials, use cases, even blog posts. When Seeking Customer Support.

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aircall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this article, we cover why investing in your customer experience is a solid strategy in slower times and offer a couple of tips you can use to improve your customer experience. Good customer experience drives revenue. Multiple departments benefit from positive customer experiences. Review your effort.

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Wowdesk Blog

JULY 12, 2020

Difficulty in meeting actual customer service needs promptly forces them to switch to different channels to fulfill their needs. Profitable businesses reduce customer efforts using updated technologies. They implement a CRM system and customer support software to frictionlessly exchange information between service agents.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

That will ultimately lead to customer service and support teams being pressured to ‘do more with less’ , as customer support is still seen as a cost center by many organizations. Here’s how your business can deliver and maintain a consistently high level of customer service while also reducing your support costs.

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ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Managing customer satisfaction keeps businesses on their toes, trying out different strategies to catch the pulse of the customer. Therefore, tools and methods used to measure customer satisfaction should be defined carefully, and we are here to help. What is Customer Satisfaction? c) Customer Effort Score (CES).

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Mindtouch

JUNE 28, 2018

When we hear the term “Agile knowledge management”—and knowing what we know about KCS—it’s easy to only consider these four principles vis-a-vis technical writers and knowledge managers. But what about customer support agents? Here’s an example to illustrate the point: customer support agents creating support content.

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Customer Service Life

APRIL 27, 2018

This article was first published on the FCR blog on April 6, 2018. Chattermill is a system that allows you to pull customer feedback from NPS (Net Promoter Score), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction), and CES (Customer Effort Score) surveys into one place. Click here to read the original. Chattermill.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When it comes to customer support and help content, the implications of these trends are quite significant. This might mean breaking down long, locked-away.pdf documents into smaller knowledge base articles; or moving useful troubleshooting information out of forums and in to a scalable knowledge management system.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 14, 2018

In the end, good customer experience is about lowering customer effort. One of the best ways to deliver an improved customer experience is to give support agents the tools they need to address customer issues in a timely manner. What solutions have customers already attempted?

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 27, 2018

A good amount of customer support interactions begin with the three simple words: I don’t know. And when customers don’t know how to resolve an issue, they tend to initiate some kind of support interaction. According to Marketo , two out of three B2B consumers engage a company primarily to request service or support.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 5, 2023

7 Best Practices for Managing Call Center Operations Call centers are crucial for many businesses, especially the ones that deal directly with customers. By leveraging call centers, they provide customer support, answer customer queries, resolve issues with products or services, and even accept orders or requests over the phone.

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Call Experts

MAY 2, 2019

Does your contact center focus on an enhanced knowledge base, reduction in agent frustration, digital channel utilization, improved first contact resolution, and reduced customer efforts? What is the effort level? Give more priority to effort level when considering a contact center. More Blogs Menu.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 7, 2018

Focus on the flow from the initial ticketing landing page to all of your knowledge base content. The knowledge content is selectively listed under Next Page Path , such as “helparticle1” and “helparticle2.” The post How to Measure Ticket Deflection with Google Analytics appeared first on MindTouch Blog.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More importantly, members of loyalty programs spend 33% more, and generate 10x more revenue than non-loyal customers over time. If that’s the kind of result you’re likely to get, then adding a well-designed customer loyalty program to your business would be an important asset. Customer Effort Score.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Or is it the lack of a medium that helps you keep your customers and site visitors engaged with the brand that ultimately leads to a delightful experience? You lack a medium that helps you provide 24/7, instant customer support that builds a delightful customer experience journey. When done right (e.g. Tweet this.

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Mindtouch

APRIL 17, 2018

A good KM strategy ensures that both customers and customer support agents can find the information they need where and when they are looking for it. But the result can be better customer satisfaction and customer effort scores, lower support costs, and the ability to scale support at the pace of organizational growth.

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OctopusTech

MARCH 1, 2023

Additionally, organizations should regularly seek customer opinions about call center experiences by administering surveys that measure: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Customer satisfaction (CSAT) Customer effort score (CES) 2.

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GetFeedback

OCTOBER 30, 2018

With Salesforce Chat , formerly known as Live Agent, support teams can provide real-time live chat support that is efficient and effective; but this is only half the battle. When a customer submits feedback, that real-time response data is instantly pushed to your chosen Salesforce Object. Read more with our live chat guide.

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Noble Systems

JULY 15, 2019

The customer usually must answer the same questions asked by the previous agent and ends up frustrated and feeling like their time is being wasted. In this blog, we’ll start by defining AI and its sub-fields — machine learning and natural language processing. Resolves customer issues, fast. Uncovers customer preferences.

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