CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In light of National Customer Service Week (2-6 October), a new study has revealed that one in five Brits wastes up to 12 hours a year waiting to be served when eating out. Nearly a third admit that the cost-of-living crisis has made them less tolerant of poor customer service.

Customer Service 59

Customer Service Technical Support B2B Wait times 59

TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Applying the digital twin model to the technical support domain will be truly transformative, with its ability to revolutionize the role of the on-site/field technician. Technical Support in the age of Digital Twins. Self-Service. DIgital Twin Example. The evolution of digital twins.

Technology 176

Technology Customer Support Technical Support Self service 176

ProProfs Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Do you contact customer service vs. technical support ? Let’s not get into the debate of which one is more apt in these situations because you start by trying the self-servicing options first. Left with no choice, you try getting hold of a customer service agent on the phone.

Customer Service 144

Customer Service Customer Support Self service Technical Support 144

Global Response

JANUARY 9, 2023

Although customer service is often focused on in B2C companies, it’s just as important—if not more so—in B2B companies. In fact, up to 80% of B2B purchase decisions are impacted by a buyer’s experience with the B2B customer service, so it’s an essential quality of your brand or company to consider.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

With Customer Experience being a crucial factor in business operations, comes the importance of optimizing Customer Support and forecasting trends. With 2018 around the corner, it’s a great time to discuss current and anticipated trends. 2) Video Service will continue to increase and become mainstream.

Customer Support 63

Customer Support Self service Technical Support Chatbots 63

Vcaretec

APRIL 10, 2023

If you're considering outsourcing your customer service in 2023, here are some steps you can follow: Define your goals and requirements: Before outsourcing your customer service, you need to define your goals and requirements. Consider the type of customer service you want to outsource, your budget, and your expectations.

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Netomi

APRIL 27, 2022

It is important to harness a customer-facing support ticketing tool, such as Zendesk or Freshworks , a space where customers can not only access knowledge bases and other self-service options, but also raise their hand to reach technical support teams when assistance is needed.

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TechSee

JUNE 12, 2018

These interactive apps remove the uncertainty as it projects the furniture or décor in 3D at full-scale, clearly showing the customer whether the item is suitable for their particular room or space, complete with accurate measuring capabilities. See what’s trending before making the big decision. Self-service support.

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Customer Experience Technical Support Self service Entertainment 152

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

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Customer Service Self service Advertising Airlines 0

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Contemplating the eventual fate of humans in the customer service process leads to some spicy conversations. More broadly, it’s long been true that a focus on boosting self-service capabilities (with or without AI) is going to yield some reduction in agent need. VPs & Directors of Customer Experience.

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Customer Service Banking Contact Center Call Center 89

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

You can even find opportunities for cross-selling, upselling, or personalized promotions by using real-time insights and trends generated by AI. Medallia is known for its robust analytics and reporting capabilities, providing in-depth insights into customer feedback and trends.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Truck Rolls – or the need to dispatch a technician to a customer’s location for service – represent one of the largest costs in customer service operations, across a wide range of industries. Solution: Two New Technology Trends. The Truck Roll Challenge.

Technology 153

Technology Analytics Enterprise Technical Support 153

TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

The hype was generated by successive breakthroughs in multiple industries, such as self-driving cars, smart assistants, etc., The customer service industry, in particular, pinned high hopes on AI, expecting that upon its introduction to the market, smart machines would truly transform the customer experience.

Customer Service 95

Customer Service Chatbots Virtual Agent Technical Support 95

Taylor Reach Group

MAY 30, 2017

It seems there is no shortage of experts and pundits weighing in on what they see as the trends that will impact the Call Center/ Contact Center industry. Though many of the prognosticators may have the timing off, many of these trends will eventually impact on the center, but maybe not today, tomorrow or even in my lifetime, but sometime.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Journey mapping Banking 71

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Contemplating the eventual fate of humans in the customer service process leads to some spicy conversations. More broadly, it’s long been true that a focus on boosting self-service capabilities (with or without AI) is going to yield some reduction in agent need. VPs & Directors of Customer Experience.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Banking Contact Center Call Center 52

teleopti

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to Magnus Geverts at Teleopti, exceptional customer experience goes beyond connecting the dots between different channels. It’s all about understanding and anticipating a customer’s every need. Here are five steps to building a contextual customer service. Five steps to the contextual customer service.

Customer Service 49

Customer Service Contact Center Technical Support Self service 49

JivoChat

AUGUST 27, 2023

It enables businesses to manage orders efficiently, track shipments, and provide prompt customer service. Order History and Customer Profiles: An efficient order management system stores comprehensive order histories and customer profiles. This enhances your ability to spot trends, patterns, and outliers quickly.

CRM 75

CRM Technical Support Analytics Customer Support 75

Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. The future of the contact center is not all in-person.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Technology Self service 98

Nicereply

MARCH 16, 2022

After starting in a frontline Support Role, I earned the opportunity to move into people management as a Support Leader. I was in support leadership for a couple years. Olark is primarily a self-service product and because of that didn’t have a dedicated Customer Success Team.

Sales 111

Sales Customer Experience Upselling Self service 111

TechSee

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To ensure high levels of customer satisfaction, companies must provide stellar customer service anytime, anywhere, and through any touch point. Recognizing that continuously adding quality agents simply does not add up financially, more and more companies are turning to technology in order to scale quality support.

Contact Center 116

Contact Center Technology Self service Call Center 116

Hodusoft

JUNE 7, 2024

For customer service businesses, call/contact centers play an important role in driving sales, improving retention rates, delivering excellent customer service and ultimately enhancing their brand’s reach and achieving positive recognition. Here are some reasons why businesses need call or contact center management: 1.

Best practices 52

Best practices Call Center Omni-channel support Management 52

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2018

Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms have enabled AI-powered tools to grasp context, power smart classification, routing of customer inquiries, and create conversational chatbots. But there is still one missing element that has barred AI from radically transforming the customer experience.

Call Center 84

Call Center Technical Support Contact Center contact center solutions 84

ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 22, 2021

This week, ViiBE co-founder and CEO Marc Prempain was pleased to participate in a live Q&A with Zendesk Startup Centra l where he discussed how ViiBE’s web technology has revolutionized remote assistance, and where industry trends are leading this technology. ViiBE is the tool that companies can use to promote this self-service.

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virtual call center Technical Support Engineering Self service 52

Serenova

JULY 21, 2020

Customer Engagement in the Contact Center. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many technologies and global trends have come to a head, including two right in Lifesize’s wheelhouse. No other communication medium comes close in being able to provide the same level of personal connection, detail and customer service.

Contact Center 90

Contact Center Analytics Technical Support Healthcare 90

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2019

With this high turnover presenting a significant challenge to contact centers in terms of cost, productivity and morale, it is not surprising that there’s an ongoing global trend towards fostering agent development and enhancing their day-to-day activities. These tools all currently exist but cannot be found as a single off-the-shelf product.

Gamification 104

Gamification Contact Center Agent Empowerment Self service 104

Select VoiceCom Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Businesses that adopted this technology also noted increased profits of up to 11% linked to an improvement in customer support and the termination of costly and unnecessary expenses that are now efficiently covered by help desk systems.

outsourcing 52

outsourcing Technical Support Metrics Best practices 52

teleopti

JANUARY 22, 2019

Customer satisfaction is fast becoming the most popular measure of success for modern organizations in a world where there is a trend towards declining brand loyalty. Five ways to future-proof customer service. They allow an organization to flex their customer care muscle when most needed. News ways of working.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Self service Technical Support 48

RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

With the rise of technology that allows better customer service, customers are becoming more demanding – that’s why to satisfy and retain them, you need to develop your contact center in accordance with the worldwide trends. self-service. Contact Center and CX Research and Reports. of companies.

Contact Center 64

Contact Center Technology Benchmark Chatbots 64

Kayako

JANUARY 7, 2016

We’ve asked support pros from Kayako and beyond what they think the biggest trends in customer support will be in the next 12 months. We’ll be covering these areas throughout 2016 so be sure to subscribe to our blog newsletter to stay at the top of your support game this year. It’s simple.

Customer Support 56

Customer Support Self service Technical Support Consulting 56

Serenova

JULY 21, 2020

Customer Engagement in the Contact Center. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many technologies and global trends have come to a head, including two right in Lifesize’s wheelhouse. No other communication medium comes close in being able to provide the same level of personal connection, detail and customer service.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Technical Support Healthcare 52

Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

If customers are being sent to the wrong department, then they tied up customer service personnel from helping the right people. Customer service diminishes. InsO International changed the call center and customer service arena by pioneering the world’s first hybrid call center solution. Alex Tebbs.

Contact Center 334

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

Implement Call Deflection Strategies Call deflection strategies, such as using self-service options like IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and chatbots, can help reduce call volume and call center costs. They simplify agents’ and customers’ lives by streamlining the contact process.

Call Center 52

Call Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Contact Center 52

Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

Customer service leaders need to tune in to one set of KPIs, but front-line managers need a different view. Customer Experience Call Center Metrics and KPIs Today, executives are well aware that a single customer service misstep can cause customers to defect.

Call Center 75

Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Average Handle Time 75

OctopusTech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The dedicated call centers handle day-to-day customer queries such as solving credit card issues, checkout process problems, and many more. It is a strategic method by which businesses can lower their operational costs and optimize customer service solutions. But this is not all.

Best practices 62

Best practices outsourcing Call Center virtual call center 62

Babelforce

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The solution you choose should be flexible enough to support both your current needs and future changes. And you *definitely* shouldn’t jump on every new social media trend! When new services become available, it’s relatively straightforward to fold them into your existing system. So what does that mean for your software choice?

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call center software Call Center APIs Interactive Voice Response 52

Pointillist

AUGUST 18, 2021

Ian, this trend has been steadily growing over the last few years. Part of the story, I’d love to say, is the fact that we’re not looking at the measures and the changes in customer behavior that we’re after, where you can actually tie results to that.

Education 40

Education Metrics Marketing Journey mapping 40