SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, customer self-service has become a pivotal aspect of delivering exceptional customer experiences. As we look towards 2024, the world of customer self-service is at a crossroads, with new challenges and opportunities on the horizon.

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CX Accelerator

MAY 25, 2022

Written by Jenny Dempsey, 5.25.2022 You don’t actually want to contact customer support. Before a customer can reach out to get support, there needs to be communication channels in place. This may be self-service, in-person, phone, email, chat, social media or text message. You may use some or all of them.

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2022

Let’s start with the bottom line – keeping customers satisfied is the key to a successful and profitable business. Customer experience and engagement are not buzzwords – they are solid performance indicators that continue to gain traction and are a top priority for businesses. What is Customer Self Service?

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TeamSupport

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

You just want to noodle over Baba O’Reilly but now you have to call support, explain a whole spiel, and potentially deal with long wait times and some irritating back-and-forth until you can finally realize your inner Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Self-service is the DIY of the digital epoch. Self-service checklist.

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TeamSupport

MARCH 18, 2024

In today's fast-paced world, customers require quick solutions to their problems. This is where self-service support comes in handy, allowing customers to find answers independently, thus saving time for both the customer and the support team. Let's just get right into it!

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Baphira Wahlang Shylla, a digital marketer at Knowmax , a SaaS company that provides knowledge management solutions for various industries that are seeking to improve their customer service metrics. She shares how BPOs can enhance your customer experience.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). And as popular as CX is, there’s a somewhat new concept that has been coming on strong for the past five years, and that’s the employee experience (EX). Most businesses today use technology to meet their customers’ needs.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 31, 2022

Customer service and CX expert, Shep Hyken recently published his 2022 ACA Study: Achieving Customer Amazement – download a full copy of the report here – which explores the state of customer service and customer experience. Human interactions are still essential to a positive experience, of course.

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TeamSupport

APRIL 6, 2021

Gone are the days of siloed customer support, successful organizations can and must collaborate to truly enhance the customer experience. Forrester's Kate Leggett said it best, "Executives don't decide how customer-centric their companies are, customers do.". Customers prefer omnichannel support options.

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TeamSupport

MARCH 18, 2024

In today's fast-paced world, customers require quick solutions to their problems. This is where self-service support comes in handy, allowing customers to find answers independently, thus saving time for both the customer and the support team. Let's just get right into it!

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TeamSupport

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Most businesses maintain some sort of customer self-service tools, whether it’s a chatbot or guide bot framework or a collection of knowledge base articles. Chances are your business maintains some sort of a self-service option, but does your business do a good job of promoting that to your customers?

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COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With digital self-service technology advancing at a phenomenal rate, why are interactions with chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems still the sources of so many frustrating customer experiences? If customer experience is an afterthought in design and implementation, customer loyalty and revenue suffer.

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TeamSupport

APRIL 12, 2021

Self-service is still good customer service. Offering an option for customers to help themselves can give your customer support reps more time to focus on improving the big-picture aspects of your service strategy. When self-service is a better alternative to submitting a ticket.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What are the challenges in finding the right balance between technology and human support in customer experiences? What frustrations do customers face when dealing with customer service, and how can AI address them? How can AI be used to personalize and contextualize customer experiences in contact centers?

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Babelforce

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

She nods again and asks: ‘ Did you call their customer support line?’. And that’s why you need self-service. Among millennial consumers, as many as 70% favour self service. It’s far from limited to younger customers though, and it’s not only consumers driving demand. And happy customers stay put! #2

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Customer Service Life

MAY 11, 2022

Almost exactly a year ago, I published a column titled How to Optimize Zendesk to Deliver Both Effective and Efficient Customer Support. For those that may not know, AnswerBot works in a couple of different ways to help boost customer self-service. Understanding the Key Metrics for Self-Service.

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

However, some of the quickest ROI can come from the employee self-service (ESS) aspects of a WFM solution. What Is Employee Self-Service? Employee self-service can nurture employee satisfaction and agent performance and promote a motivated and engaged workforce. All that time adds up quickly.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 15, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Manpreet Chawla, senior digital marketing specialist at Knowmax , a knowledge base management solution for enterprises looking to provide exceptional customer experience to their customers via enhanced agent satisfaction. Top 5 ways to create a robust customer experience strategy .

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TeamSupport

MARCH 11, 2024

Is your team ready for the future of customer support? We've compiled some of the latest trends and advancements that will shape the landscape of customer service. The Future is Now First things first - let's talk about how customer support has evolved. Self-Service: Customers are becoming more independent.

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TeamSupport

MARCH 11, 2024

Is your team ready for the future of customer support? We've compiled some of the latest trends and advancements that will shape the landscape of customer service. The Future is Now First things first - let's talk about how customer support has evolved. Self-Service: Customers are becoming more independent.

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TeamSupport

JULY 25, 2023

As a customer support leader, you know how important it is for your customers to be serviced in a timely manner. So, your company invests in the training needed to ensure your agents know the product and can help the customer use it. The agent starts by answering a customer’s inquiry via chat.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Top Takeaways: Self-service is becoming more than just enabling customers to attempt to resolve their own issues. The lockdown has changed our customers’ perspective on how they want to spend their time. The lockdown has changed our customers’ perspective on how they want to spend their time.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In our first blog, we explored how customer expectations are rapidly changing and what organizations should consider as part of their Self-Service strategy. This blog will continue that exploration with some insight into some of the benefits we’ve seen in organizations that have implemented Self-Service.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 3, 2023

As we will see, the main goal of a self-service system is to reduce the time the agents spend on simple, repetitive tasks or transactions such as paying a bill or getting account balance information. A functioning self-service system generally empowers clients with the tools and resources necessary for their inquiries.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We are all someone’s customer. And as customers, we expect our issues to be solved quickly, efficiently and — if possible — using our channel of choice. We don’t want to be transferred from one customer support representative to another and explain our issue over and over again.

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TeamSupport

MAY 3, 2023

Ensuring that customers have a superior experience using a product or service is a top priority for most companies. Customers expect to have access to fast and easy customer support when and where they need it. How does support ticket deflection benefit the customer? What is ticket deflection?

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Hodusoft

MARCH 6, 2024

E-commerce Customer Support: How BPO Can Elevate Your Service Experience Are you an e-commerce business struggling to provide seamless and efficient customer support services? According to a report by Microsoft 95% of consumers consider customer service crucial for brand loyalty.

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COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

The challenge of keeping pace with changing customer expectations looms large. Technological advancements, notably artificial intelligence (AI), fuel customer experience transformation. Companies worldwide are grappling with leveraging technology to enhance the overall customer experience (CX).

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JustCall

MARCH 10, 2023

In this guide, we will look at how you can improve your self service customer service and leverage its holistic benefits (for the customer and the business). Chatbots and virtual assistants are being used to provide personalized and responsive customer support, including 24/7 assistance, in a cost-effective manner.

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TeamSupport

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. 1960s-1970s: Emergence of Call Centers The concept of providing on-demand customer support began with call centers in the 1960s. It certainly wasn’t as accessible or intuitive as it is today.

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aircall

AUGUST 14, 2022

But one way to ensure you can scale without compromising on quality is to scale your customer support team too. This means that however much your customer base expands or your business offering diversifies, you’re still providing what lies at the heart of a successful business: excellent customer service. .

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Solvvy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

How are brands stepping up and meeting these higher customer expectations? Solvvy’s AI-powered support produces happiness. Solvvy’s AI-powered customer support solution improves the customer experience while increasing support teams’ productivity. << Top 3 takeaways.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be….

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Mindtouch

APRIL 11, 2018

If your customers want to pump their own gas, you let them. The same goes for self-service. If your customers prefer to solve issues on their own (as it turns out, they very much do ), you need to enable them to do so. Not only that, you need to make that experience as frictionless as possible. Optimize for mobile.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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TeamSupport

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In the realm of customer support software solutions, TeamSupport stands out for its comprehensive approach to managing the entire post-sale customer experience. This platform is designed with customer-centric organizations in mind, aiming to help them cultivate strong relationships with their customers.

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bold360 Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

and employee experience (lack of infrastructure, both hardware and software, to support the sudden shift to remote work). . In this blog post, we’ll focus on phase 4, optimizing your support strategy. How do self-service tools support optimization and improvement of customer support?

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