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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 21, 2016

ShepHyken

Steve DiGioia shares some nice ideas about the importance pretending to be your own customer. The Future of Social Media (And How to Prepare For It): The State of Social Media 2016 Report by Ash Read. I’m surprised at how many companies have not yet embraced social media for marketing and customer care.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 29, 2016

ShepHyken

My Comment: Customers want an easy and frictionless experience, especially when they have to connect with a company’s call or support center. In this short article, Mike Cannova, the director of Advance Customer Care for ShoreTel, shares five important strategies and processes to create a better customer experience.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of July 25, 2016

ShepHyken

If you like this story, you might like the author’s eBook which includes short stories that focus on customer experience. Why You Have Customer Churn and What You Can Do About It by Vanessa Rombaut. My Comment: I’m not a big fan of the term customer churn. Not because I don’t like the words. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken .

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100+ Customer Experience Stats to Prepare for 2023

CCNG

(Martech Alliance, 2021) Customer-obsessed businesses expect to be 7x more relevant to customers, 5x more likely a top provider of products, and 4x more profitable. Forrester, 2016) 55% of CX professionals believe their companies will be too slow and face disruption from more innovative, nimble, and customer-focused competitors.

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Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: A Look Inside Our April 2016 Issue

Contact Center Pipeline

The April 2016 issue of Contact Center Pipeline is available online. Here is what you’ll find inside: FEATURE ARTICLES Employee Advocacy By Susan Hash An empowered and impassioned workforce can help to enhance your company’s reputation and engagement with customers. Conversing or Transacting?

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Guest Blog: 3 Simple Ways (Backed by Research) to Improve Customer Service Quality

ShepHyken

That’s why a quick response time is one of the most important metrics for measuring good customer service. Yet , the average response time in 2016 was 15 hours and 17 minutes , which is hardly the superior service that most companies believe they deliver.

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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)

BlueOcean

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Reporting Your customer care program may accumulate more data than any other part of your organization. Hourly staff?