What is Customer Service? A Look Back via SlideShare

What Is Customer Service?

On March 7, 2012, we asked 19 business, marketing and customer service experts the fundamental question: What is Customer Service? We received some truly insightful answers and thought we would revisit some of the better nuggets by creating a SlideShare presentation. If you missed the original post or have not read it in awhile, check [...]

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Five Ways that Video Matters for Customer Experience

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Guest Poster: Andrew Konoff It is my pleasure to introduce Andrew Konoff. Andrew is the Marketing and Community Manager at GoInstant, a co-browsing company. There, he runs a blog that focuses on bringing customer experience management to a broader audience. You can find him on Twitter as @andrewkonoff. _____________________________________________________________________ Last week I decided it was [...]

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Monthly Mash and Social Monitoring Tools

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Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. Volume 15: January 2013 Customer Experience Resource: Social Monitoring Tools In our guest post last week, Who Won the Great Social Customer Service Race? we saw how major brands like Coca-Cola and [...]

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What is Hero-Class Customer Service? Part 2

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In our last post, What is Hero-Class Customer Service? Part 1, we discussed why we like the term Hero-Class Customer ServiceTM and the characteristics that customer facing professionals need to become customer service heroes. The final piece of understanding Hero-Class Customer ServiceTM is to discuss what it looks like in an organization as a whole. [...]

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Who Won the Great Social Customer Service Race?

Ashley Verrill

Guest Poster: Ashley Verrill It is my pleasure to introduce Ashley Verrill. Ashley is a market analyst with Software Advice. She has spent the last six years reporting and writing business news and strategy features. Her work has appeared in myriad publications including Inc., Upstart Business Journal, the Austin Business Journal and the North Bay [...]

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What is Hero-Class Customer Service? Part 1

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I’ve searched for a long time for a phrase to describe a level of service that is both amazing in its quality and impressive in its delivery. Sure, I’ve used the typical phrases for years — world-class customer service, platinum-level customer service, 5-star customer service — and so on. But these phrases are common, and [...]

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