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Customer retention: Metrics, strategies, and examples

Discover tried-and-true customer retention strategies to keep customers coming back.

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Customer loyalty: A guide to types and strategies

Customer loyalty is when customers reward a company with repeat business over time. Our guide covers definitions, types, and strategies to help you learn how to build a loyal following.

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Customer community: Definition, benefits, and tips for building your own

A well-run customer community can be an invaluable resource to a company and its customers.

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Diving deep into CX trends: a Q&A with Ray Wang

Ray Wang of Constellation Research shares actionable insights into this year's most critical customer service trends

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How to create a customer-centric strategy in 2024

Customer centricity is the ability to understand consumers and make business decisions based on their needs. It's putting the customer at the center of everything you do.

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6 productivity tips for customer support agents

Reducing the time it takes to resolve a customer issue makes everyone happier. Getting there means taking actionable steps for greater support agent efficiency

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3 best practices to cultivate loyalty in customer service

There are actionable ways to drive loyalty through your customer support. And loyalty really matters

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Traveling this holiday season? You might be messaging a lot more than usual

Travel and hospitality brands are creating unique, scalable customer experiences using messaging

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What is customer empathy? Tips and importance

Customer empathy is the ability to see things from the customer’s perspective. Walking a mile in your buyers’ shoes can have big-time business value.

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Put the customer experience first with inside tips from Zendesk

In order to effectively deploy exceptional customer service solutions, there are five key phases of implementation that every company should consider

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From notifications to conversations

How India’s largest crowdfunding platform doubled donations with WhatsApp

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Meet your customers anywhere. Go omnichannel.

Customers expect to be served on their preferred channel, whether it be via phone, email, chat,…

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Beyond "buy 10 get one free": What is customer loyalty?

What exactly does real customer loyalty look like? We asked CX practitioners and experts for their best tips for building customer loyalty

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How Flywheel upcycled boutique fitness and at-home classes

Repeat Customer podcast, Season 2, Episode 8 When SoulCycle co-founder Ruth Zukerman abruptly left her groundbreaking…

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Dealing with customer requests

Expectations for customer service and support have never been higher. And they’re going up faster than…

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Big expectations, small businesses: What customers want

Good customer service experiences can result in more business from not just that customer, but also…

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How Chip and Joanna Gaines turned a hit TV show into Magnolia

Repeat Customer podcast, Season 2, Episode 7 Chip and Joanna Gaines were stars of the hit…

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