REVE Chat Blog

JUNE 4, 2020

Words are incredibly powerful for handling clients’ conversations as businesses often can truly either make or break customer service experiences. Using the right empathy statements and phrases for customer service makes all the difference between a poor or delightful experience. According to the Empathy Index , “Empathy is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee.”.

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UJET

JUNE 3, 2020

Right now, your support team is either mostly or entirely remote. Agents can access the platform from any location and are fully capable of helping customers resolve issues. But what if you were used to having your entire team in one office and usually spoke to them in person. How can you manage a dispersed team effectively when everyone is remote? Use the Right Technology.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2020

In our last issue of Why Customers Buy, we discussed how doing things differently than your competition could be the most reliable path to success for your brand. Today, we are going to discuss in more detail why this works and what you can do to implement these surprising ideas that don’t make sense to encourage the success of your brand. Before we get into that, let me remind you that this issue is based on a conversation we had on our podcast recently with advertising legend Rory Sutherlan

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ShepHyken

JUNE 3, 2020

This is one of those unbelievable customer service stories that borders on the ridiculous. I actually thought I was in the middle of a Seinfeld episode—or maybe there was a hidden camera hoping to get a crazy reaction to the interaction I’m about to share with you. I was at an airport and wanted some breakfast. There was just one person ahead of me in line.

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Callminer

MAY 31, 2020

What are some ways companies can drive customer satisfaction in today’s consumer-centric landscape? Here’s our curated list of 25 tactics.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 30, 2020

Business as usual is anything but usual today. How things will change in the “new normal” and what you can do to manage it is almost anyone’s guess. However, if you can open your mind to trying new things other than what you normally would do, you might discover the magic trick that makes it all work well for managing your customer behavior.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2020

Today’s contact centers continue to expand their channel mix beyond voice (e.g., chat, text, email, web and video) to keep up with the communication demands of their consumers and prospects. Voice traffic, while dropping in total demand, is still more than 60% of overall contact center traffic. For some industries, it remains 100%. Voice channel […].

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Callminer

JUNE 4, 2020

Customer satisfaction is your top priority. As you work toward boosting satisfaction while reducing average handle time, cost reductions will follow.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2020

Redefining Influence in the Customer Experience. Showing Up as Your Best Self to Create the Best Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Stacey Hanke. They discuss Stacey’s book, Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday® and how redefining your concept of “influence” can revolutionize your customer experience. Top Takeaways: Influence is not what most people think it is.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 4, 2020

The “ Customer Value Proposition ” is providing convincing reasons why a customer should buy a product, and also differentiate your product from competitors. The same works for our “internal customers”, our employees. The “value” one brings to their organization is not easily measured but can, and usually does, make itself known very quickly within the process.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 2, 2020

These are not easy times. The struggle is real. We have so many vital decisions to make for our operations that can have profound impacts on our staff and customers. Do we continue with a work-from-home strategy? Can we start to re-open our office doors? If so, how does that look and what are the […].

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Callminer

JUNE 3, 2020

We reached out to 21 analytics professionals & business leaders to learn their most creative uses of predictive analytics in the call center.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 5, 2020

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Aspect

JUNE 4, 2020

‘The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore’ was once said by the prolific poet, Rumi. That applies to many things in life and business. To follow the same path as Rumi — at least in a business sense — contact center leaders must have a plan that enables them to rapidly respond and adapt to change. These leaders are managing a complex set of activities.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 4, 2020

Sitting on the front lines of the contact center, agents are the personification of your brand. They provide the human-to-human connection that makes lasting impressions and supports more engaging customer experiences (CX). But, while CX continues to play an outsized role as a competitive differentiator, best-in-class contact centers are increasingly replicating the same type of […].

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 5, 2020

I bet you’ll agree with me on this one: Customers stop doing business with you when they are unhappy. In fact, 68% of customers leave because they believe you don’t care about them. More than that, only 1 in 26 unhappy customers will complain about what they don’t like about your service; the rest will churn. And that’s the problem.

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Inbenta

JUNE 2, 2020

1. Set a goal for your chatbot. As obvious as it may seem, this is the number one chatbot best practice to keep in mind when starting to design a conversational agent. You can create a bot for almost anything nowadays, so setting a clear goal for yours and outlining what it’s supposed to do, right from the beginning, will prevent you from getting carried away.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 1, 2020

GetFeedback joins forces with Usabilla to form a CX suite that brings a multi-channel view of the customer experience across your entire customer journey.

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TELUS International

JUNE 2, 2020

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 5, 2020

In one of its studies, American Express discovered that for more complicated interactions, such as payment disputes, 40% of customers prefer talking to a real person over the phone. However, the tables turned when Econsultancy discussed how 79% of businesses prefer to use live chat at their website instead of email (61%), phone (44%), and social media (48%) platforms to communicate with customers for instant support.

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TechSee

JUNE 2, 2020

Today’s number one challenge in field service is the knowledge gap between Baby Boomer technicians – an aging workforce – and the next generation of technicians who have less experience and want more independence. The population aged 60+ is growing faster than any other group. According to the United Nations’ 2019 World Population report, by 2050, 1 in 6 people will be over the age of 65, up from 1 in 11 in 2019.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 3, 2020

HP’s Brandon McGovern shares how he’s pivoting his CX program to stay relevant in today’s circumstances in our livestream series, CX Confessions.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 5, 2020

By Colin Taylor. Roughly three months into the COVID-19 shutdown, there has been a lot of discussion around what COVID-19 has done to our society, our economy, our elderly and; if you live in my little corner of the world; our customer experiences and contact centers. Contact centers for many organizations could not stop operating, so they pivoted to a Work-From-Home (WFH) model, deployed additional communication channels (think chat, text and messaging) and looked for high-volume, low-complexit

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OctopusTech

JUNE 3, 2020

There are several services that businesses hire in order to help them improve their overall customer experience. Interactions with their customers have always been a crucial part of any business’s success and how well they manage it is directly related to their customer’s loyalty and retention with the brand. Call answering services is one of such services that help businesses improve their customer service and experience which leads to the overall satisfaction of the customers.

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kommunicate

JUNE 3, 2020

Nowadays, every business has a Facebook page, and your customers are likely to reach out to you via social media. However, most of the companies do not have a dedicated support team for social media. It creates a support overhead on your side. Therefore, it is crucial to connect your social media to your customer [.]. The post Facebook Messenger Customer Service – Integrate Social Media in Your Customer Service appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 5, 2020

Dale Carnegie, in his 1936 classic “ How to win friends and Influence People” advised, “Ask questions the other person will enjoy answering.” Asking good questions shows genuine interest and elicit honest answers. That said, we all know that customers love asking questions, especially when they are about to make a purchase. But can a business owner ask questions to clients and customers?

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VirtualPBX

JUNE 2, 2020

VirtualPBX is reaching beyond voice-only capability with its first Video Conferencing beta test. This beta test allows our participating VirtualPBX Phone Plan customers to conduct 1:1 video chats on a range of devices. Customers will be able to use their existing phone numbers, so there’s no additional setup required for anyone to get started. Feedback during this process will be essential for building out the capability of our video service.

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Nicereply

JUNE 2, 2020

Awesome docs deflect tickets from your inbox, make for happier customers, and even boost up the effectiveness of your internal teams. Documentation is frequently the first interaction that a customer has with your product and brand. When someone is having trouble, 91% of them prefer to read documentation rather than ask someone for an answer. So, instead of reaching out directly to your support team, they’ll often do a quick search through your knowledge base instead.

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