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18 Live Chat Best Practices to Help You Deliver Superior Customer Service

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Be clear about wait time. If a customer must wait, let them know for how long, and what it is that they are waiting for. For example, if your company creates skater apparel, you might want to use a more casual tone for your live chat than if you were selling cyber security solutions to government organizations.

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Is the Future of Retail, Physical or Virtual?

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Offering free returns may work for apparel but not for electronics. The success of Uber and Lyft lies partly in the fact that the customer can call a car and immediately know the waiting time based on a live map of their surroundings. Customers will always need to see and try before they buy in numerous categories.

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The Future of Retail is in the Stars (or is it the Cloud?) Testing

C3Centricity

Offering free returns may work for apparel but not for electronics. The success of Uber and Lyft lies partly in the fact that the customer can call a car and immediately know the waiting time based on a live map of their surroundings. Customers will always need to see and try before they buy in numerous categories.

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Zappos customer service ‘core values’ sets record for longest call

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According to The Huffington Post, the call set a new record; beating out the previous record at the online shoe and apparel retailer of 8 hours and 29 minutes. On December 8, Customer Loyalty Team member Shaea Labus spent 10 hours and 29 minutes on a phone call.

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Get Ready for The Shopping Season with These 10+ Tips

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This results in longer wait times and negatively impacts the customer experience. With live chat, agents can handle as many as three or more chats simultaneously (as opposed to one at a time over the phone). This helps businesses reduce wait times, and saves companies money on personnel costs and toll chargers.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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Having the right information on hand also reduces wait times, costs to serve, and increases customer satisfaction. Apparel companies Stitch Fix and ThirdLove are two examples of companies that tout their use of data analytics and artificial intelligence in their services.

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4 Ways to Kick-Start Intelligent Process Automation in 2020

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The bank was able to carry out 3,000 transactions a second, reducing customer-waiting times by 10x, massively increasing cross-sell revenues and driving consistent increases in Net Promoter Scores month-on-month. Start small, think big, scale fast was the approach taken by multinational sports apparel manufacturer adidas.