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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Customer Behavior

BlueOcean

What do mattress sales, wildlife populations, and peak customer service times all have in common? Mattress sales have skyrocketed thanks to people spending more time at home—and discovering new sleep challenges as a result of the pandemic. As we mentioned, this led to a surprising increase in mattress sales.

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Are you satisfied?  Yes, no or maybe?

Helen Dewdney

Sectors such as tourism and transport have apparently seen the biggest improvement between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. However, less tourism and less transport would logically see fewer complaints as fewer people travelled! Join our free Facebook Group Increase Sales through Customer Service with Compassion, Care and Integrity.

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Guest Blog: How to Get the Most from Seasonal Customer Service Employees

ShepHyken

For example, Macy’s hired 1,500 employees at customer service call centers and countless more for sales floors across the country, while Target doubled its team dedicated to in-store pickups and curbside services. Yet, seasonal hiring is not unique to retail during the holidays.

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SalesForce, Hubspot, Zendesk and More — Which Customer Engagement Software is Right for Me?

Comm100

Price : Sales Cloud ranges from $25-$300/user/month. Sales + Service Cloud ranges from $100-$325/user/month. Need : An industry-leading CRM — features include lead scoring, SMS marketing, event management, sales reports, social CRM, mobile app, web content personalization, and more. Service Cloud ranges from $75-$300/user/month.

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Strategic customer success: minimizing post-sale chaos with Tim Conder.

ChurnZero

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. In addition to your five customer needs, you also have key questions that help you develop a deep understanding of what your customer is trying to do, in a deeper way than your sales team has already discovered. Here’s the webinar in full.

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3 Industries That Need Multilingual Call Centers

Magellan Solutions

Open to businesses of every scale, telephone translation services are more than entertaining queries and making a sale in a different language – it’s effectively opening lines of communication to a different level, in a way that legitimately proves your customers’ importance to you and your business. Tourism Industry.

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Forgotten Facts & Fantasies of Customer Delight

C3Centricity

You’d by amazed in this day of simplified automation, that not all websites have this welcome programmed within their sales funnel! If you’ve never compared your results to sales trends, do so; you are likely in for a shock! And yes that’s shorter than a goldfish! Of course, not everything is perfect in Peru.