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How to Turn Social Media Customer Service into a Marketing Strategy

ShepHyken

One of the best examples of a complaint that went viral was Dave Carroll’s YouTube video about when United Airlines broke his guitar. Simply put: nobody wants to wait nearly eight hours for a response to their complaint in the lightning-fast world of social media. Regardless of social media channel, reaction time is paramount.

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Customer Service in the Time of COVID-19

ShepHyken

If your business has been hit hard, set clear expectations on customer service telephone lines and provide updates on websites, such as this notice on the?Airbnb Airbnb website: Wait times are longer than usual right now. hotels and airlines. Now is the time to double down on self-service.

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Understanding the Shift: Why Businesses are Embracing Contact Center Outsourcing

CCNG

Interactive voice recognition (IVR) systems empower customers to navigate menus and resolve queries effortlessly, enhancing self-service capabilities and reducing wait times. Recently, we helped a leading low-cost European airline leverage the power of analytics, and improve CSAT by 18%.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

This includes excessive hold times, overwhelmed agents, poor customer satisfaction, and ultimately brand harm. Delta Airlines is hiring 5,000 professionals to help support their customers, but still expects lengthy hold times (some as long as 9 hours) to persist into the fall. It’s no wonder customers have such low expectations.

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Improve Your IVR, Improve the Customer Experience

Aspect

It turns out when she made her reservation, she missed a number, maybe it was a letter… Regardless, the number she provided to the airline was incorrect. Her next call was to the airline. The airline was busy. The IVR told her she could expect a 42-minute wait. We chatted while she waited on hold.

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Contactless and Self-Service are Here to Stay

The Petrova Experience

Our 5th 2021 customer experience trend highlights contactless and self-service experiences across industries. Before we dive into this topic, let’s take a moment to define what contactless and self-service mean to us. What is Self Service? To begin, let’s define self-service.

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

Fonolo

It was just last year that Air Canada was flying high after being named Best Airline in North America by Skytrax, an independent U.K. This certified airline rating system is recognized as an industry benchmark of airline standards in airport and cabin staff services’ onboard products; and business-class lounge offerings.