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2020 Business and Customer Service Experience Trends

CCNG

New data from The Northridge Group provides a clear message to businesses. Today's consumers are shopping online more now than ever but find the overall service experience inadequate. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for companies to make the customer experience as effortless as possible. Focus on leadership.

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The Definitive 2021 Guide to Customer Effort Score

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Customer Effort Score seeks to quantify and highlight these very difficult conversations, so that customer service teams can avoid them in the future. Created in 2010, the Customer Effort Score is fairly new to the scene but is becoming increasingly more popular. What is Customer Effort Score (CES)?

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3 Psychographic Marketing Strategies To Borrow For Self-Service Support

Mindtouch

Let’s apply this concept to self-service support. In many ways, psychographic marketing is a form of direct customer engagement —an approach to gaining a deeper understanding about our customers. For example, we might know who is coming to us for self-service support, but do we really know why ?

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Successful Call Center Agents Share This Personality Type

TechSee

The ongoing shift to self-service has brought about many positive changes to the customer service field. Fewer customers now require assistance from live agents to pay bills or carry out other simple tasks. Helping customers resolve tricky issues puts pressure on the contact center in several ways.

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Unlocking Additional Value From Your Customer Service Technology Stack

CSM Magazine

Angela Clarkson, Head of Business Consultancy, Sabio Group One of the key issues discussed at our recent Disrupt 2023 conference in the UK was the cost-of-living crisis and its likely impact on customer service provision. UK inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1% in October last year and remains high at the time of writing.

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The 3 Stages of the Visual Transformation Journey

TechSee

Having a unified platform allows for better visual collaboration across groups, warm transfers across channels, and the utilization of visual data to deliver AI-powered automation over time. The visual assistant can recognize the product and its parts, identify the issue, and provide the resolution for the customer.

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Customer Service Strategy for 2023: How to Maintain Great Service at Lower Costs

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Let’s go into 5 ways you can provide and maintain excellent customer service and reduce your support expenses at the same time. Get the most out of self-service and AI solutions. Pandemic-driven self-service and AI adoption continue to grow. For basic issues, most consumers would prefer self-service options.