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Guest Blog: Exceptional Customer Support Is Fresh, Not Canned

ShepHyken

Forced to listen to fake-happy ‘customer care’ puppets reading from scripts? The dissatisfaction you’ll be left with goes both ways: the cost of disappointed customers is high for companies, too. After just one bad customer support experience, trust in a brand is gone forever. Ever been put on hold for three hours?

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of May 29, 2017

ShepHyken

Social customer care is a viable customer support channel that every company should be considering, if they haven’t already done so. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker and New York Times bestselling business author. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of September 4, 2017

ShepHyken

One of the big takeaways is that the leaders close the loop on feedback within 48 hours, which according to CustomerGauge, leads to a 12% increase in customer retention. 10 Insights from Customer Care Experts & Influencers by CGS. Why Visual Support is the Future of Customer Service by Robert C.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 20, 2017

ShepHyken

(HDI) Sometimes, when things go wrong, when you are to blame for a problem, or when a customer is rightfully aggrieved, all you can offer is an apology, so you really must learn to do it right. Here are three tips for writing a heartfelt apology to a customer. This is a short article about how to apologize. It’s simple.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 17, 2017

ShepHyken

Getting More Referrals = Letting People Your Customers Care About Know About Brands That Care About Them by Joseph Michelli. Joseph Michelli) Here are some broad approaches to activating promoter behavior in your loyal customer base. Here are my top five picks from last week. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 14, 2016

ShepHyken

ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. When a customer tweets to a company and receives a response, the customer is willing to spend 3-20% more. My Comment: Here is some interesting info on customer support. Where customers go, service follows.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

Cloud contact center deployments that began in customer care may have been extended to other business areas. Two topics come to mind: participating fully in corporate digital transformation initiatives and investigating uses of artificial intelligence in customer care. Digital Transformation. Artificial Intelligence.