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Spring cleaning your customer support strategy: how Guided CX streamlines digital interactions
Spring is in the air — and while you might be thinking about clearing out closets or organizing the garage, there’s another area that could use some tidying up: your customer support strategy. Let’s be real: digital customer experiences can get cluttered. Outdated processes, confusing self-service options, and siloed tools all add friction for your customers and your agents. But here’s the good news: with a little spring cleaning and the right approach, you can freshen things up and create smoother, more human support experiences. Enter Guided Customer Experience (Guided CX)—your not-so-secret weapon for streamlining support and delighting customers.
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Customer Service
Happy Contact Center Agents Equal Happy Customers
Ignore your contact center agents at your peril. Taking care of customer service agents is expensive. However, not taking care of them costs far more.
Customer Service
4 Ways to Make Technical Support Easier
As a customer, your goal when buying a new technology is simple: you want it to work as promised. You want the experience to be easy and straightforward, and you want the technology to provide you with the benefits you were offered during the selling process.
Customer Service
Ten Tips for Stellar Online Customer Service
Customer support can be a costly proposition to companies. However, providing a solid online customer service structure will stop customer erosion and add long-term repeat customers.
Customer Service
The Online Customer Service Landscape
The search for the ideal customer experience has become a quest across all industries. These days, it’s all about providing the means for your customers to reach you on the channels they choose, and then treating customers with the respect and consideration they deserve.
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Customer Experience: Show Customers Love at Every Stage
Business-to-customer relationships parallel person-to-person relationships in the most basic way: everyone wants to be shown a little love. In business, that translates into providing a great customer experience.
Customer Service
When it Comes to Customer Service, the Customer is Not Always Right
Since Harry Gordon Selfridge, department store founder, came up with the phrase “the customer is always right,” many companies have used it as a cornerstone for their businesses. Truthfully, though, basing your customer service activities around this concept is bad for business.
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Grow Customer Satisfaction by Practicing Respect
If you respect your customers, they are more likely to respond positively to you and you will increase customer satisfaction.
Customer Service
Customer Experience Lessons from Buddy the Elf
Wouldn’t it be great if all customers were like Buddy, the naive character played by Will Ferrell in the popular holiday movie “Elf“? All customer experiences would be completely perfect, as demonstrated in this scene where Buddy stumbles on “The World’s Best Coffee.” Even though the coffee being offered in the clip is clearly sub-par, the sign next to it says it’s the “World’s Best”, so Buddy thinks it must be. It’s a customer service agent’s dream.
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Customer Service
10 Ways to Use Customer Service to Say Thanks to Your Customers
There are many reasons for businesses to be thankful to their customers during Thanksgiving, over the holiday season, and throughout the year. Being grateful to your customers should be a central point in your customer service training.