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Customer service objectives: 7 objectives you can copy

Customer service objectives align agents with department goals to provide the best service. Create effective objectives with advice from industry leaders.

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How to create a great customer experience with chat support

Customer service chat software can help you deliver a better customer experience

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Improve customer rapport by mirroring

Agents can work to build customer rapport by adjusting to a customer's emotional state or way of communicating.

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How successful sales reps start their day

What distinguishes the best salespeople from everyone else? Part of it has to do with how they kick off their day.

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21 customer service KPIs every support team needs to track

Customer service KPIs can provide insight into the effectiveness of your customer support. Discover the 21 most important metrics to track below.

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The dynamic, long-term impact of self-service

Self-service is often considered an end goal for a support organization. In reality, it's much more dynamic, driving long-term efficiencies and customer-first philosophies across the entire business.

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Stop exercising and start moving

I’m moving house in T-minus 10 days. So, yesterday, after assembling 35 cardboard boxes, dismantling two…

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Slack kills at onboarding customers: Here’s how

How did Slack go from zero to millions of users so quickly? They did something clever: they created Slackbot to proactively engage and onboard their customers.

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Tap into the right self-service analytics to measure success

If you're unsure how knowledge management is moving the needle on customer support, let self-service analytics be your guide as you plan for the future

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We’re not all leaders, but we all can practice emergent leadership

When you walk into a room, there’s no easy way to know who has the best…

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See your business goals through by offering live chat

It’s crucial to be sure that your live chat goals align with your business objectives. You don't want an opportunity to slip by, so we're highlighting five business goals that can be supported (and more achievable) by offering live chat.

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How to get hold music for your business

The right phone hold music keeps customers entertained while they wait for an agent. Learn how to get hold music for your business in our guide.

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Will you show up with your emotions, or send an emoji instead?

If you’ve tweeted, posted to Instagram, or texted in the past few days—and who among us…

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The four C’s of cherry-picking

With cherry-picking, rather than choosing the next available request your agent chooses one they’d rather work on

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How an omnichannel customer experience contact center works

An omnichannel customer experience is good for both customers and agents. Find out how omnichannel can streamline your contact center operations and make everyone's life a little easier.

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Knowledge management cultivates high-performing teams

The secret weapon of great customer service teams is two-fold: excellent internal knowledge management and thoughtful training on how to make the most of that resource

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Emojis at work: the good, the bad, and the legally binding

Emojis haven’t actually reshaped communication. I mean, they’re symbols meant to convey a message, and humans…

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