Fonolo

APRIL 6, 2021

Don’t let your business fall short when it comes to delighting customers with great customer service. Every time a customer interacts with one of your sales associates or call center agents, the outcome will impact how shoppers perceive your retail brand. shoppopdisplays #CustomerService #Retail Click To Tweet.

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Intercom

JANUARY 20, 2025

The quality of your customer service either builds and reinforces crucial trust, or severely undermines it if issues are not resolved satisfactorily. Meeting those customer expectations at scale, while also adhering to strict regulatory requirements, demands the very best technology.

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Retently

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Table of contents Key Takeaways: What is Customer Support Quality Assurance? Retently as a Top QA Tool for Ecommerce and Retail 2. EvaluAgent Final Thoughts: Choosing the Right QA Tool When customer interactions lack consistency and quality, it can lead to dissatisfaction, lost loyalty, and even negative reviews. Loris AI 4.

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C3Centricity

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Because retail is in crisis. If retail as we know it is to return to “normal” – and many, including the HBR have already declared this to be near impossible – it is important to understand what is going on in our shoppers’ brains. Capturing Customer Data. We need to better understand shoppers.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With businesses reopening after COVID-19 closures, US economist Mark Zandi asserts that retailers benefited significantly from the reopening economy. Moreover, retail spending is expected to increase by 19% this year. These predictions represent significant opportunity for retailers. Why retail call centers are so important.

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Inside Customer Service

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The conversation reminded me how important it is to show appreciation and support to customer service professionals who are working hard to serve us. I talk to a lot of customer service professionals like Lauren. Many feel beat up by angry and unreasonable customers. It's nice to have someone back you up.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The customer service landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a product manager, it’s crucial to stay ahead of these trends to deliver innovative and customer-centric solutions.

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Doing CX Right

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Explore AI's transformative power to elevate retail customer customer service. Learn how to effectively use AI and customer insights to design impactful experiences with Stacy Sherman and featured guest, Alex Genov from Zappos.

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Bill Quiseng

APRIL 18, 2021

Social media is bad for customer service. Whether ranting or raving, customers are telling stories online about businesses whether those businesses are listening or not. But I am not against monitoring social media or using it as a responsive customer service channel. I am not a millionaire.

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Inside Customer Service

APRIL 22, 2021

Customer service managers write a lot of procedures. Customer experience becomes inconsistent. Service quality erodes. Here's a five step process for writing customer service procedures your employees will love. Associates at one retailer struggled to follow procedures for building product displays.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

With the holiday season around the corner, retailers are feeling the pressure as they navigate one of the most demanding periods in a post-COVID world. . Following suit, Salesforce predicts that “up to 30% of global retail sales will be made through digital channels this upcoming holiday season.” But it’s not over yet. Morning Consult.

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Uniphore

DECEMBER 7, 2021

According to Deloitte , retailers can expect sales to increase by 7-9% — a very merry holiday, indeed.?However, Customers may still flock to big online retailers and avoid brick-and-mortar establishments. customer service to adapt. Retail CX Trends in 2021: Holiday Retail Challenges You Can Turn Into Opportunities.

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 9, 2024

So, I encourage you to remind yourself and your colleagues every day about each one of The Rule of Three QUI TAKEAWAYS to Customer Service and Customer Experience. I am here to tell you that if you’re not in the Top Three, you don’t even exist in the minds of your potential customers. But I digress.

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Inside Customer Service

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This is an important question for a retailer with thousands of stores. Managers weren't allowed to deviate from the staffing plan, so they pulled employees away from other tasks like helping customers. The retailer was plagued by many examples like this, where misleading data led to poor decisions. It eventually went bankrupt.

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eglobalis

MARCH 30, 2025

In B2C retail, brands analyze product review text to discern sentiment about product features, informing quick tweaks. The benefit of integration is also organizational: it breaks silos between departments handling customer data.

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Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

To learn more about how customer service and customer experience managers can best handle disgruntled employees, we reached out to a panel of management professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What’s the best way for customer service / experience managers to handle a disgruntled employee?”.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 23, 2021

A major sporting goods retailer is scheduled to launch an outdoors-focused retail brand in 2021, and has retained The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. Even though the retailer is very well-established, this is a new brand and a new system,” says Colin Taylor, CEO and Chief Chaos Officer at TRG. “In

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Retently

AUGUST 15, 2024

That’s what Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) is all about. In this article, we’ll dive into the best CSAT tools available for ecommerce and retail businesses. Whether you’re a small online store or a large retail chain, finding the right CSAT platform can be a game-changer. Let’s get started!

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Too often as professionals in Customer Service we report and write about lousy service, long wait times, poor follow through, weaseling phases in terms and conditions, too many steps to get satisfaction plus many, many more. But she helpfully suggested that the retailer, Sporting Life, likely would have a copy.

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Callminer

MARCH 6, 2020

Managers play an integral role in ensuring high quality customer service, from hiring and training call center agents to monitoring performance, keeping tabs on vital call center metrics and keeping agents motivated every day. From my point of view, the most useful customer service interview question for managers is…”.

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Shep Hyken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What Is Customer Loyalty and Retention (And 3 Tips for Improvement) by Scott Clark. Florida Butcher Shop Installs Vending Machine to Serve Customers 24/7 by Retail Customer Experience.

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ECXO

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Zappos: Building Loyalty Through Service Zappos, the online shoe retailer, revolutionized e-commerce with its dedication to customer service. Its policies, such as free shipping and a 365-day return window, remove common friction points for customers.

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ECXO

JANUARY 21, 2025

Customers were starting to complain about poor customer service, confusing user manuals, and the lack of durability in newer products. The Warning Signs One day, a young employee named Sophie, who worked in the customer service department, approached Max with a report. Max dismissed these complaints.

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Inside Customer Service

APRIL 14, 2022

It's hard to build customer service skills when you can't practice. Whatever the situation, you want to practice the essential customer service skills that will help you succeed in your new job. Fortunately, there's a way to do it, even if you aren’t currently serving customers.

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Customer Think

APRIL 21, 2023

Introduction Though the pandemic is over, the retail industry is still contending with serious challenges when it comes to demand. Now more than ever, customer service can make or break consumers’ purchases.

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Shep Hyken

JULY 12, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The Top Customer Service Trends: Digital Channels Overtake Service Options by Phillip Britt. Customer Service Competency Class Now a Requirement for Fordham Admission by Isabella Scipioni.

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Inside Customer Service

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The big question is why do customer service employees routinely do this? What's the impact of giving customers bad information? The salesperson confidently told a customer, "If anything happens, even if it just gets a scratch, the company will replace it, free of charge." Why are there so many lines?

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Shep Hyken

JULY 19, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Internal Customer Service: What You Must Know by Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead. Here are 18 of the most reliable ways to make sure your internal customer service is up there with the best. by Mary Drumond.

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The Customer Service Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A major part of M&S’s return to the FTSE 100 last week (along with a share price rise of over 70%) can be credited to the retailer’s significant investments in customer service. That’s what matters, and if we do right by our customers, we’ll do right by our shareholders.” But it’s not easy. Why is this important?

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Shep Hyken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. When Customer Care Isn’t Enough, Call the Customer Delight Brigade by Katie Deighton. Customer Service is SO Annoying (Tips to Make it Less So) by Jim Gilbert. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Zendesk

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

After the chaos and uncertainty of the past few years, with supply chain woes, staffing shortages, and inflationary pressures, there is some good news for the retail industry. The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that holiday sales will be healthy this year. What’s more, many of those sales will come from ecommerce.

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Inside Customer Service

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The biggest issue was a lack of internal customer service. Poor internal customer service frustrates many employees like my friend. Poor internal customer service frustrates many employees like my friend. This post will answer three critical questions: What is internal customer service?

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eglobalis

AUGUST 13, 2024

In this article, we will delve into how Samsung and Apple differentiate in customer experience, focusing on ten key parameters: design, brand loyalty, fan following, creativity, CX, user interface, ecosystem integration, product quality, customer service, and marketing strategies.

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Zendesk

APRIL 3, 2023

The world of retail is in a time of change. It’s no longer enough to simply offer a great product—your customers demand much more. In the flooded market with almost endless options, many retailers are competing on the quality of their service. This is where retail customer engagement plays a vital role.

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Callminer

MARCH 6, 2020

Managers play an integral role in ensuring high quality customer service, from hiring and training call center agents to monitoring performance, keeping tabs on vital call center metrics and keeping agents motivated every day. From my point of view, the most useful customer service interview question for managers is…”.

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Shep Hyken

APRIL 6, 2022

“Is customer service more important than price?” . That’s exactly what we asked more than 1,000 consumers in our customer service research. And just to make sure, we asked a similar question later in the survey, “Would you pay more if you knew you would receive great customer service?”

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 25, 2023

In retail customer service, your people are NOT your most important assets. Ultimately, success in retail customer service is all about interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in retail customer service is all about interpersonal skills. The right people are.”

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