Avaya

MARCH 19, 2019

This blog is authored by Phil Baumann & Hristiyana Ivanova at C3i Solutions. This blog was first published Jan 31, 2019 on the C3i Solutions blog. This blog was first published Jan 31, 2019 on the C3i Solutions blog. It’s time to prepare for the growth of digital and social in customer care in 2019.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 26, 2016

Tweet Having worked for GM years ago and lived in Detroit, the motor capital, it was really interesting to see how GM is using social media to listen and engage customers – in marketing as well as customer service. Covering customer-facing applications that deliver amazing customer experiences.

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SaleMove

JULY 29, 2019

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming. “ You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.”

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2016

Forward thinking companies are using social media to further engage their customers. Here are five tips to help you use social media to take your customer service to the next level. Contact centers can no longer be viewed simply as cost centers. Build on existing architecture.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work. Agents obviously value bright contact centers and great salaries, but their daily happiness hinges far more greatly on systems and processes. Are the tools easy to use? It Had Better Be!

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Murph Krajewski, writes about the importance of a single customer view when it comes to serving your customers. This will help lead you to forming important relationship with your customer. – Shep Hyken. Customer service needs customer data.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The advent of social media has had a huge impact on the customer service industry. Here are nine tips on how to offer the most effective customer service on social media. Here are nine tips on how to offer the most effective customer service on social media. Take a page from Nike.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

What’s most important in self-service, is that customers can connect through several channels, including the phone, email, website, messenger, and social media. With time, enough data and better algorithms, AI will learn to handle complex tasks, but customer agents will still help customers with complicated matters.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

AUGUST 15, 2014

According to ICMI’s recent research report The Normalization of Social Customer Care, 73% of organizations report having a social media presence, but only 39% formally support it as a customer care channel. That leaves 34% of organizations with a presence, but without customer care for social media.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

AUGUST 15, 2014

According to ICMI’s recent research report The Normalization of Social Customer Care, 73% of organizations report having a social media presence, but only 39% formally support it as a customer care channel. That leaves 34% of organizations with a presence, but without customer care for social media.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

That means connecting with customers emotionally is the task of the customer service agent. So, contact center managers need to put the right practices in place and also give agents the right tools. Bearing that in mind, here are 10 tips for connecting with customers emotionally. 1) Be personal. 2) Be responsive.

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Customers That Stick

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. Thoughts on the Customer: The Sympathetic Holiday Shopper. If you read our December 11 blog post , you know that we recently conducted a survey of consumer attitudes on holiday shopping.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. This type of sentiment analysis has become a key tool for making sense of the multitudes of opinions expressed every day in texts on review sites, forums, blogs, and social media.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 27, 2017

For Carlson Rezidor , one of the globe’s largest hotel groups with 1,400 properties, including the widely known Radisson brand, creating consistency across all guest reservation contact centers had its own challenges. We wanted to give them a personalized experience, but we needed a contact center platform that allowed us to do that.”.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

Tweet There was a time when customers wrote a letter to customer service- ok that was a really long time ago. But not long ago, the phone was what a majority of people used to contact customer service. And then along comes social media. It’s part of why there is so much customer churn.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

GM, America’s largest automobile manufacturer, has more than 17 million social brand mentions and engages in more than 400,000 customer care conversations each year. GM set (and met) two aggressive goals to support their customer-centric vision.

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Team HGS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Speaking of CX—this October 1 is CX Day—a calendar date dedicated to celebrating the professionals and companies that make great customer experiences happen. So this is perfect timing for a blog about how contact centers play an essential role in brand storytelling. Take, for example, the CX channel of social media.

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inmoment

JULY 22, 2020

Customer retention lies at the heart of everything from customer experience (CX) strategies to contact center tactics. Additionally, retaining and recovering existing customers is far more cost-effective for a brand than focusing solely on acquiring new business. Strategy #3: Empowering Employees.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

GM, America’s largest automobile manufacturer, has more than 17 million social brand mentions and engages in more than 400,000 customer care conversations each year. GM set (and met) two aggressive goals to support their customer-centric vision. Goal 1: Deliver on today’s customer expectations.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). Advances in technology allow contact centers to use data in much more manageable ways, redefine how to engage with customers, gain efficiencies, and leverage actionable insights to improve quality management (QM) and the customer journey.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Tweet The phrase “customer service is the new marketing” has gained popularity with brands realizing that poor customer service takes current, and even potential customers, out of the marketing funnel. Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. How to Calculate Social Customer Care ROI.

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Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tweet This report looks at how companies, using the right software, can gain ROI from Customer Service and Customer Experience. Customer Care as a cost center is an unfounded p aradigm. In fact, executives have long thought of customer service or customer care as a cost center.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 23, 2019

Omnichannel processes utilize various platforms such as social media channels, email marketing, websites, and mobile experiences to communicate with your clients. Scott Witte is the Director of Customer Care at Call Experts based in Charleston, South Carolina. More Blogs Menu. Retailers have lost millions.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

GM, America’s largest automobile manufacturer, has more than 17 million social brand mentions and engages in more than 400,000 customer care conversations each year. GM set (and met) two aggressive goals to support their customer-centric vision. Goal 1: Deliver on today’s customer expectations.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

You don’t just walk into a room and start talking, and that’s just as true in the social world. I … Continue reading → The post Social Customer Care: Listen, Learn, and Dialogue appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Listen Begin by listening.

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LiveChat

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The last decade has been defined by the customer becoming the center of nearly every business initiative. This intense customer focus has paid off for those who’ve gotten their customer experience just right. Content may be of many different types – blog posts, videos, white papers, case studies, and more.

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Avaya

JULY 22, 2016

Avaya’s Emerging Products & Technology group in conjunction with their Customer Experience Centre in Galway, Ireland—the company’s global R&D facility that is accelerating future technologies in next-generation customer experience applications—is innovating for AI in business communications. The post What’s Next?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

You don’t just walk into a room and start talking, and that’s just as true in the social world. I … Continue reading → The post Social Customer Care: Listen, Learn, and Dialogue appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Listen Begin by listening.

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Natalie Petouhof

MAY 27, 2016

Customer Experience IOT in the Automotive Industry-Upcoming. **. . • ROI of Social Customer Service- Upcoming. • The Customer Service Playbook for Integration of Traditional, Digital, Social and Mobile Customer Service Strategies and Technologies-Upcoming. Mobile Customer Service-Upcoming. **.

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Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

For some strange reason that 10% statistic is popping up more lately—like the recent Bain & Company survey that indicated only 10% of business leaders believe that the primary purpose of their firms is to maximize value for customers. But I digress, that’s another topic for another blog. By calling their Customer Careline.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You are out there setting the standard for others to follow (And please, get in touch so we can get you signed on for a guest blog spot). If you answered “no, our social customer care is most definitely not kicking ass” – don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. Social Customer Care Cannot Be Ignored.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 11, 2019

Every business is different, and so is every customer. But when it comes to the benefits of digital customer service, these seem to go across the board. Get in touch or learn how you can engage in smart digital conversations with your customers. NICE inContact CXone is designed to scale for businesses large and small.

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Comm100

APRIL 27, 2020

For contact centers with hundreds or even thousands of employees, equipping every agent to handle queries from all channels might not be the best way to implement an omnichannel approach; it commands a broader agent skillset and more training to handle every channel’s unique requirements.

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Thematic

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Better customer experience: Shorter lines, more efficient payment Marketing by using pictures of athletes and other famous celebrities online Marketing by using influencers on social media like YouTube and Instagram Better business results: More relatable people who have their own audiences that can be reached more easily.

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