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Guest Post: Trends of Customer Service in 2023

ShepHyken

This year, we’ll see a growing focus on the role of service in corporate strategies, with businesses incorporating new approaches and technologies to deliver the support their customers need. Service has become the main point of contact between a business and its customers, greatly affecting their perception of the brand.

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Customer Care Today: The top 4 things consumers want you to know

Interactions

Whenever the topic of customer service comes up, everyone has a story to tell–and there is no holding back. Interactions recently surveyed 1,100 U.S. consumers to see what they like when it comes to customer service. Brands must look at what customers really want and remove pain points from interactions.

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Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric?

ClearAction

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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WHY ISN’T CUSTOMER SERVICE IMPROVING?

CCNG

You encountered a chatbot that was clueless about what you were inquiring about, one that couldn’t refer you to a “live person” because they weren’t available. Bad customer service is our new normal? As stated earlier, customer expectations are changing dramatically and will continue to do so forever. Nope, not on my watch.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing CX in the Contact Center

Fonolo

Gartner reports that AI chatbots alone can save the contact center industry up to $80 billion in annual labor costs by 2026. Along with huge cost savings, AI will be a tremendous boon to customers longing for better self-service, and agents who need relief from repetitive taskwork. What Do Customers Value in CX? Convenience.

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Amazing Business Radio: Brad Birnbaum

ShepHyken

Then find all the unhappy customers and reach out to them to try and get them to re-engage. Chatbots are best used for simple requests and less effective for personal service. Combining a chatbot with a Conversational Form is an effective way to use the chatbot to collect data or conduct a survey.

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4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year

Fonolo

Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Will the AI / chatbot hype start to live up to its promise? This is the latest in their “Inner Circle” series which is based on industry surveys. About: We are huge fans of ContactBabel.