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In-App Messaging Explained (With Examples and Best Practices)

In-app messages are amazing tools you can use to propel sales, onboard a new user, and interact with your users daily. It can diminish the volume of live attention requests your customer service team receives, and make it easier for the sales team to convert new users. In-app messaging is vital for your customer engagement strategy. If you know how to use it, you’ll reach the right user at the right time to address their queries. But, what is in-app messaging?

7 Simple Steps For Contact Center Quality Monitoring

Contact center quality monitoring is one of the best ways to improve customer service. When you monitor quality, you’ll be able to identify any roadblocks in the process and create an easy pathway to boost customer satisfaction. But contact center quality monitoring isn’t just about recording phone calls between customers and agents or checking if they responded politely to an email query. Rather, it’s about how you evaluate each agent’s interaction and act on them.

Everything You Need to Know About Inbound Call Centers (2021)

In a world dominated by chatbots and text messaging, you might think phone calls are becoming a thing of the past. But many customers still prefer calling businesses over the phone to resolve their problems. As a business owner, answering phone calls may not be your top priority. So it makes more sense for you to invest in an inbound call center instead. Inbound call centers can receive calls on your company’s behalf.

12 Excellent Customer Service Phrases for Everyday Conversations

Your customer’s perception of you and your brand can be shaped in a single customer service interaction. So it pays to be careful with what you say and how you say it. One way to set the course of conversations in your favor is by using the right customer service phrases. Customer service phrases serve as ready-reckoners that you can use in your day-to-day interactions with customers.

What is agent experience? (and why it's good for customers, too)

Companies have long focused on customer experience; some may even say they’re, gasp, customer obsessed. But buzz words aside, all this means is that they’re putting the customer at the center of everything they do. From sales to marketing and support, these companies aim to please at every step of the customer journey. With such a heavy focus on needs of customers, far too often the needs of agents get overlooked. And in reality, the two are more intertwined than you might think.

14 Essential Project Management Skills in 2021

Bringing together the requisite skills, knowledge, tools, and business processes to achieve the outcome is the core of project management. And there is a long list of skills that enable project managers to accomplish all that. This article will list 14 of the most important project management skills in 2021. According to industry predictions, by 2027, businesses will require 87.7 million employees to work in roles associated with project management.

How to create a consistent customer experience with your customer service strategy

Helpful, friendly customer service shouldn’t be seen as “optional” by your business. It has serious implications for whether customers will return to your company and spread the word about your products. According to a Qualtrics study, 95% of consumers who rate a company’s customer experience as “very good” are likely to recommend the company.

Best Time Management Apps For 2021

There is no guessing that one thing we crave more the most is productivity. There is no doubt that we are overwhelmed with activities and, we have to keep up with the calendar, to-do list, shopping list, etc., to make sure nothing is left out. In order to achieve better productivity, then time management is of utmost importance. Effective time management has helped leaders, entrepreneurs, and, small business owner hit their targets.

Who Knew Email Subjects Are So Complicated

Did you know that email subjects, by default, only support 127 characters?! I didn’t, and I ran into a “fun” puzzle of a problem earlier this year when a client of ours noticed a problem with Courier-built emails in Microsoft Outlook. Small rendering issues and bugs like this can give the wrong impression to a recipient of an email. It can make the end user feel the product they are using is poorly planned or not tested.