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Upgrade Your Customer Support Rep to a Customer Support Professional

ShepHyken

The other day I was talking with a gentleman who was as passionate about customer service and experience as I am. He had worked with support centers and we were discussing how important the team in a customer support center is to an organization. They answer phones, emails, texts, social media comments, and more.

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Proactive Customer Support

ShepHyken

Just last week I wrote about the concept of predictive customer support. Now, we take a slightly different angle with the concept of proactive customer support. The company reaches out to the customer before the customer has a chance to reach out to the company. The concept is simple.

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Factors to consider while choosing customer care outsourcing service

Vcaretec

The main channel via which you communicate with your clients is through customer service, thus it can't be good for your brand, to put it mildly. However, good customer support outsourcing won't sacrifice quality and may, in many cases, enhance your service. The training procedure. Continue if it doesn't seem intriguing.

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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. Likewise, we know that offering live agent support for Spanish consumers is a competitive advantage in many markets in the U.S. The most recent census reports that 21.4%

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How To Achieve Industry-Leading Customer Care Through Hiring & Training

Vcaretec

process for hiring with an in-depth training and on-boarding process for newly hired customer care specialists. The Customer Mirroring that’s built into our model enables us to find and staff the perfect customer care team to support your specific customers, and do it at scale.

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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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3 Common Factors Behind Client Discontent in Customer Care Conversations

CSM Magazine

Websites have been great for this and have replaced a lot of work that customer care agents previously handled. Unfortunately, a lot of customer support gets outsourced, and finding someone who can actually help is tough. Just take a stroll through Microsoft’s official support community.