9 Tips for Effective Live Chat
So just how do you make live chat work successfully for your company? We have nine tips to show you how to master the contact center art form.
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5 Customer Service Tips to Boost Online Sales
Brick-and-mortar retailers sell more when they have more staff on the floor to help customers. This also applies in the online environment. Here are five tips to help your customer service boost online sales.
The Mobile Revolution: What Does it Mean for Contact Centers?
This mobile revolution has consumers placing high demands on merchants to evolve their support models so they can resolve their issues on the fly, via their mobile or tablet device, and in between text messages. Here
Channel Shifting: How to Optimize Your Marketing Investment
Channel shifting is an old concept which is re-emerging with the advent of new technologies consumers use to interact with brands. Here’s how to optimize your marketing investment.
3 Tips for Better Customer Service in an Outsourced Contact Center
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4 Tips to Launch a Social Media Customer Service Program in Your Contact Center
The contact center industry has officially entered the next evolution of customer engagement and many are on a mission to figure out how best to implement these new and emerging technologies to service our digital customers. If your contact center is looking to launch or advance a social CRM program, here are 4 tips to remember.
Sudden Impact: How Vermont Teddy Bear Staffs and Trains its Holiday Help
The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, along with sister companies Calyx Flowers and Pajama Gram, faces the challenges of being a seasonal business. More than 60% of its annual revenue comes during the Christmas and Valentine
Online Merchants Must Treat Live Chat as Distinct Channel
For online merchants to reap the most benefits from live chat, they have to treat it as a distinct communication channel, according to Bold Chat
Report: Frequent Live Chatters Demand Special Attention
Live chat patrons are more likely to have higher household incomes, more likely to shop more frequently, spend more, have a college degree, and be between the ages of 31-50, the report says. While this demographic appeals to merchants, frequent live chatters (those who have chatted at least four times in the previous three months) exhibit these traits in an amplified way and warrant special attention.