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Guest Blog: Customer Service Training Ideas to Help Build Brand Advocacy

ShepHyken

While product knowledge may be vital to providing good customer service, the ability to communicate with customers is just as important. Provide necessary tools. Employees are only as productive as the available tools allow them to be. If you are not a great communicator, you will probably not go far in customer service.

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Guest Blog: 7 Ways to Enhance Your Customer Experience with Live Chat

ShepHyken

Businesses constantly try to improve the customer experience they deliver through new approaches, tools and strategies. . Be Confident and knowledgeable. In the event you’re lacking the knowledge required to respond to a query, take the time to research the topic and find the best possible answer. . Be sure of your answers.

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Why a Tools-First Approach to Knowledge Management Is All Wrong

Mindtouch

Technical writers and knowledge base managers use and evaluate a variety of tools. And don’t forget those handy screen capture tools. Perhaps none of these tools, though, is more important to good knowledge management (nor more scrutinized and debated) than the authoring tool.

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Guest Blog: Customer Service Trends for 2018

ShepHyken

Customer Service as a self-support tool: A smart customer looks at convenient and easy ways to learn and troubleshoot. To kill two birds with a single bullet, you can opt to create such videos, not only as support tools but also to drive your marketing and brand equity to decimate the competition.

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Guest Blog: The 8 Elements of Customer Support Quality

ShepHyken

Personal tastes vary in how individuals rank these elements in order of importance, but specifying them allows companies to deliberately improve their support setup over time – be it through tools, people, or organization. A clear structure allows the customer to break up your explanation into manageable chunks. Element #1: Fast.

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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Are the tools easy to use? By establishing metrics for factors like “time spent in the knowledge base,” “screens to resolution,” or “questions to authentication,” you will learn what agents experience when supporting customers. This knowledge will, in turn, allow you to optimize backend tools and technologies.

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Top 9 Customer Service Blogs to read in 2022

Nicereply

That’s why we’ve rounded up this handy list, so you have all top customer support blogs published (so far) in 2022 in one accessible place. Most of these blogs allow you to subscribe to their newsletters and publish new content regularly. 2022’s top customer service blogs. 2022’s top customer service blogs.