Behind the Scenes – Uniform Customer Service Experience
by morpheyous on Jan.25, 2012, under Customer Service
Behind the Scenes – Uniform Customer Service Experience
Article by Ajax
Delivering the best product at a competitive price is not enough. In today’s highly competitive environment organizations need to be proactive and must also provide an ideal customer service experience post sales. More than anything else, customers care about how they are treated as the reliability, speed, and simplicity of service drive customer retention and profitability.
With advancement in technology, there is easy access to information about vendors and product online, this has made customer more aware and he can migrate among brands if need be. This has made customer service experience management (SEM), a critical element of your company’s success or failure. As products have become commodities, enterprises want customer service interactions to help differentiate their brand.SEM is the closed loop process of controlling and adjusting customer interactions while improving company performance. With SEM, your company can control every step within each customer interaction to provide the ideal customer experience. Â In addition, SEM ensures the ability to provide this ideal serviceexperience in accordance with a balanced set of key performance indicators.
With the right solution for SEM, service organizations can quickly: 1. Design the process required for each customer serviceexperience to be effective.2. Orchestrate the delivery of core information including knowledge, data, forms and processes as they relate to the organization and its procedures. 3. Listen to the outcomes so that you can continuously make the experience better.
In enterprise customer service, four key performance indicators (KPIs) govern service operations 1. The customer satisfaction with each interaction.2. The revenue produced through the interaction.3. The cost of the interaction.4. The level of compliance with company and governmental policies.
These are the indicators that make up the balanced scorecard every enterprise must achieve in order to reverse the trend of higher costs and declining customer satisfaction and profitability.
You need a Customer ServiceExperience Management (SEM) solution to provide service managers with a flexible, agile solution for controlling the complete, end-to-end serviceexperience. The right SEM facilitates delivery of the optimal serviceexperience and the ability to keep it optimal over time.
With the right SEM bring a holistic approach to your service channels; phone, web, customer service chat, web self services and IVR that orchestrates measures and adapts the serviceexperience across these channels that is a vital element in delivering excellence and driving true customer advocacy.
SEM is the closed loop process of controlling and adjusting customer interactions while improving company performance. With SEM, your company can control every step within each customer interaction to provide the ideal customer experience. In addition, SEM ensures the ability to provide this ideal service experience in accordance with a balanced set of key performance indicators.
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Don’t be a Brick Wall – Create a Great Customer Service Experience
by morpheyous on Jan.23, 2012, under Customer Service
Don’t be a Brick Wall – Create a Great Customer Service Experience
Article by Ajax
Master the Customer Service Experience by delivering consistent, knowledgeable conversations with customers across every channel –email response,customer service chat, phone, and the Web self service.
For any business to succeed creating a loyal customer is important. In today’s highly competitive world having good product and price is important but, customer service is now the proven differentiator. One way that you can make the difference when interacting with a customer is, to make sure that you address their need or request correctly the first time.
Customer service solutions help organization manage customer interactions across verticals. These set of processes can cost-effectively improve both the quality and efficiency of every customer interaction and has to be managed keeping in mind the needs of not only the customers but the business as well.
If a businesses does not have a well defined and regularized system for carrying out these processes it can result in inaccurate and disparate responses affecting the quality of service delivered. Documenting the processes is not enough it has to be executed in reality. Â
Organizations today are waking up to this fact and are including pre-sales and post sales interactions that allows your business to deliver a customer-focused and ideal  customer service experience that successfully balances customer interests with business goals. With SEM,1. Your company can control every step within each customer interaction to provide the ideal customer experience.2. You have the ability to provide this ideal service experience in accordance with a balanced set of key performance indicator.
It is important to provide a cross-channel customer experience via email, speaking or chatting with an agent, using web self service or by browsing. The information needs to be up-to-date and consistent across every channel. These business tools provide a comprehensive process that facilitates high visibility and has the capability to keep the documents updated so that consistency is maintained resulting in improved customer service experience.
Speed, agility, and intelligence add up to great customer service experience and with the right tools your customers gain highly responsive, consistent service delivered across multiple channels. Your company benefits with improved resolution rates, better resource use, personalized interactions, compliance with regulations, and the ability to turn service centers into profit centers.
Customer service solutions help organization manage customer interactions across verticals. These set of processes can cost-effectively improve both the quality and efficiency of every customer interaction and has to be managed keeping in mind the needs of not only the customers but the business as well.
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Maintaining Best Customer Service Experience
by morpheyous on Jan.21, 2012, under Customer Service
Maintaining Best Customer Service Experience
Article by Ajax
In a world of huge competition and similarity in the products, customer service makes all the difference. Businesses are struggling to remain at the top. Customer has finally become the king maker. A customer service experience is not easy to tackle as each customer have their unique priorities and problems. But for any business to succeed you need to understand and resolve those issues if you want a satisfied customer who will happily give you a repeat order. The cruxes of customer experience lies in making the right judgment about what your customerservice experience priorities are and then design the processes.
There’s no real secret or rocket science involved to getting your customers to come back. All you need to do is provide customerservice that exceeds your customers’ expectations and surpasses your competitors’ customerservice.
The art of good customerservice is “Listen to your customers”; half your battle is won. Â More than anything else, customers care about how they are treated as the reliability, speed, and simplicity of service drive customer retention and profitability. It’s time for customerservice to deliver the experience customers want — while balancing the cost, compliance and revenue objectives to benefit your business.
CustomerService Experience should deliver consistent, knowledgeable conversations with customers across every channel — email response, customerservice chat, phone, and the Web self service.The simplest thing that can be done is make the Agents Desktop more adaptive, interactive and powerful. The Adaptive Agent Desktop offers service manager’s full control over the experience in customerservice experience and the agent has a clear view of the customer – including their history, contact information, resources, and relevant applications. Each of these factors can dynamically adjust and change the information that is displayed to the agent, whether it is transactional information about purchases, customer profile data, product details, company policies, scripts, or the agent’s to-do list.To improve your customerservices follow these simple rules:1. Create a Single Dashboard – Clarifying questions, dynamic interviews, topic search, search-term highlighting, and document summaries help agents quickly pinpoint the most relevant answer. This speeds access to key customer data, shortens call handling time, streamlines agent training processes and ultimately improves customer satisfaction.
2. Share a Single Knowledgebase – Information on web self service and on agent desktop should be in sync with each other. Same knowledge management system software should be used. Agents and self-service customers should use the same information and guidance techniques so that there is no confusion. Moreover a complete history of customer’s self-service session accompanies escalated inquiries should be there on agent desktop to eliminate redundant problem discovery.
3. Automate compliance – Complying with company, customers or government legislation etc is a big challenge for agents and organizations alike. To track the activity of every agent to know that they following compliance requirements can be difficult. By automating agent workflows to meet the compliance requirements, streamline agent productivity, improve adherence to key compliance processes and track and report on compliance performance.
Make your customerservice experience that can WOW the customer. I would rather do business with organizations that is fast in resolving my problem and has a good attitude.
Learn more about :- customerservice consulting & Managed services
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If Your Customer Service Operations Are Just OK, You’re Already on the Verge of Getting Out From the Market
by morpheyous on Jan.19, 2012, under Customer Service
If Your Customer Service Operations Are Just OK, You’re Already on the Verge of Getting Out From the Market
Article by Rakesh Kumar
<div align=”justify”>Do you believe that customer service can actually be your best marketing tool? If you do, chances are that you will sail through the hardships of stiff competition. But if you don’t, and feel that your customer service operations are just ok, you are already on the verge of getting out from the market.Many organizations believe that as long as their product is high quality, they can flourish. Had this been the case, only A-star hotels would have been able to serve their customers well. The budget or economy hotels would not have been able to flourish. The rule however is that superior customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can get many customers for your product at the first place, but if you can’t get those customers back to buy more, you are probably loosing on it. Delivering superior customer service means delivering a WOW experience to the customers. You would not have witnessed a customer who would say on looking the customer’s product, logo, and décor and say, “It looks great. I am going to be a customer for life.” This happens only after the customer has actually experienced a WOW factor. If the WOW factor is missing, chances are that you merely survive. Let us read the instances below to add more meaning to the argument.A computer hardware retailer on being asked the differentiating factor between him and other retailers, who sell the same sets on almost same price, retorts that it is in the person who installs and maintains the computer system after sales is done.A mobile handset manufacturing business unit confirms, that along with quality and featured handsets, their differentiating factor lies in the after-sales support. That they have established robust and up-to-date service management software that allows them to keep abreast of the handset repair progress, and also facilitates SMS integration to inform the customers when their product is ready to be returned after repair.An inverter and battery manufacturer narrates their pain of maintaining effective cost management, even after their products are being appreciated for superior quality. They realized the loophole in managing customer service operations. The customer records were not set right and sometimes customers were not visited, or overcharged, which led to sudden decrease in their customer base. They implemented a customer service management system that led them record each service transaction and maintain records of the customers served on real-time basis.These are the examples of WOW customer service- that can help you outshine your competitor and also allow you to maintain the cost standards. All other things alike, customers like to buy from people who made them feel valued. Surveys have shown that customers are even ready to spend an extra buck to ensure excellent customer service.When it comes to customer service, it is survival of the best. You too can ensure being the best by staying with the customers ‘after the sale’ as well.</div>
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Rakesh Kumar is an after-sales service process optimization expert and associated with Zed-Axis Technologies Pvt. Ltd & Zed-Serviceâ„¢ – A 360 Degree Customer service management software and Field Service Software- one of the flagship products of Zed-Axis Technologies Pvt. Ltd. For any queries/feedback Please visit http://www.zed-service.in
Finding And Using Live Chat Software for Great Customer Service
by morpheyous on Jan.17, 2012, under Customer Service
Finding And Using Live Chat Software for Great Customer Service
Article by Bob A Andrews
The average consumer spends less than three seconds on a sales-oriented website, and for business owners, this means that there’s a very small window for making a sale. One of the best ways to improve sales and customer help as a whole is to use live chat software.
Chat software can allow a customer to consult directly with a customer service representative through a web browser. It delivers a more personalized experience and instantly gets a potential customer’s attention. A chat software can also be useful for delivering better service to existing clients.
However, there are dozens of chat programs available, so if you’re considering this type of service for your business, you’ll need to find software with the appropriate features and do some planning before implementing it into your website.
Features To Consider In a Customer help Chat Application
Chat software are far more than a simple box for typing text. There are a number of features which can make them easier to use and more valuable and reliable for businesses and their customers.
Some common features include automatic logging, which creates a log of each chat that can be reviewed by a customer service manager. Chat logging is extremely useful and should be considered an essential feature. Many chat also feature automated or logged responses, which the customer representative can select to quickly answer common questions. Logged responses should be used sparingly, but they can be a great time-saver, especially in overloaded customer service centers.
Chat programs can also automatically take down a customer’s name and other basic information such as order numbers and feedback ratings. Security is always important, but it’s especially important when a chat program is taking this type of sensitive customer information. You should look for a highly secure customer chat program that uses encryption.
A good program also needs to be fast and compatible with as many different web browsers as possible. The best programs are designed to provide efficient, seamless service and integrate well into various websites, incorporating the websites’ color schemes and logos so that customers don’t realize that a third-party provider developed the application.
You’ll need to evaluate different chat yourself to decide what’s important to your business and what features you’ll get the most use from. Remember that above all else, a program needs to look great and it needs to be secure for efficient, dependable use with your business.
Implementing a Customer Service Chat Program
It’s easy to stumble when implementing a customer help chat system into an existing website, but some planning should take care of all of the most common problems. The first thing to do is to decide when the chat service will be available; if it will be available 24/7, there will obviously need to be a customer representative available at all times. Most businesses will restrict a live chat feature to business hours, especially for the first few months.
Most customer service live chat software can be set to automatically turn off and on during certain hours. You should use this type of automatic scheduling if possible. Otherwise, a late-night or early-morning customer might assume that a lack of chat response means poor customer service in general.
You’ll also need to decide on procedures for customer service representatives that will be operating the chat software. A customer service department should dedicate one or more representatives to the chat at first and chat logs should be monitored to ensure the best quality service.
A chat program can make a major difference in a company’s day-to-day business and can greatly improve the capabilities of a customer service department. With some simple planning, chat software is an affordable, effective feature that can be implemented in only a few days for a much better customer experience.
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Separating fact from fiction when it comes to online communication and technology, Bob Andrews is a self-professed geek and author who writes on a variety of topics including live chat software. Always looking for the highest quality information he usually looks for information at http://www.liveperson.com.
Adding Versatility To Customer Service With Online Chat Software
by morpheyous on Jan.15, 2012, under Customer Service
Adding Versatility To Customer Service With Online Chat Software
Article by Bob A Andrews
Good customer service means better word of mouth and more business, but sometimes it can be hard to keep a high customer service standard while controlling costs. Companies need to answer customers’ questions and deal with complaints quickly and logically. This means taking a varied yet consistent approach when supporting customers in person, over the phone or on the web. Online chat software has recently found favor with many businesses, as it can provide essential organizational tools for much more effective and versatile customer suppor.
When a business uses online chat software, customers are given the option to chat directly with a customer support representative through a simple web-based utility. On the customer’s end, this utility is basically just a dialog box, although it can be customized with branding and graphics for a professional look. However, the business’s customer service department has access to all of the features of the online chat software, including reports, quality control tools and much more. Online chat software can quickly revolutionize a business’s customer support approach and improve department efficiency.
Why Some Customers Prefer Online Chat Software
There are several reasons why websites with live chat features are becoming popular with website visitors. First of all, they’re extremely easy to use. There’s no technical know-how involved, as customers just need to click on a chat box and enter basic personal information to start a discussion with a CSR.
Some customers also feel that there’s less pressure involved with online chat as opposed to a phone call. It’s a better medium for quick questions and simple problems, and as chat logs can be saved by both customers and businesses, there’s less room for miscommunication. While there are certainly some problems that can’t be handled through web chat, having the option available can add tremendous versatility to a customer service department.
The Best Ways to Use a Live Chat Service
A customer service department can track web visits and streamline trouble ticket procedures with some of the features of most online chat software. For instance, most programs automatically keep logs of all chats and some are capable of automatically flagging chats that use certain words or that take too long to complete. Managers can then read over these chats to ensure that the customer service department is handling customer requests in a consistent way. Logs can also be automatically sent to customers who provide an email address.
Live chat services can also have features like spell check to ensure professionalism. Many programs can hold a number of stock responses to allow for easy answers to common customer questions. Reports can also be generated to show which customer service representatives are spending the most time with customers and to log general data about a website’s visitors.
Overall, a live chat service is an advantageous addition to any customer service department. Chat provides an easy way to resolve common customer issues, and with the features of modern chat programs, it’s a very capable tool for improving customer service. The right online chat software can greatly improve productivity in almost any type of business while giving customers a new way to receive the help that they need.
About the Author
Separating fact from fiction when it comes to online communication and technology, Bob Andrews is a self-professed geek and author who writes on a variety of topics including online chat software. Always looking for the highest quality information he usually looks for information at http://solutions.liveperson.com.
Learn about Simple Ways To Enlarge the Subscriber base By Enhancing your Customer Service
by morpheyous on Jan.13, 2012, under Customer Service
Learn about Simple Ways To Enlarge the Subscriber base By Enhancing your Customer Service
Article by pene lanolin
When individuals get these theories ideal, nothing else is bound to matter. The service market, essentially I would not generalize – any market (But much more in the service market) ought to have at its base the simple if you know by expending useful support services, half their company battles will probably be won. What on earth is support services? In uncomplicated words, it’s handling your consumers and helping them out start by making their shopping expertise effective and pleasant. Helping them locate wares, answering doubts, if neccessary and getting pleasant in interactions is what customer service entails. Why is customer care critical? Allow me to ensure you get a clearer picture with the help of this situation:
Let’s suppose you try to a clothes store and can’t obtain what you’re looking for, which means you look with the saleslady. Whenever you come across her, the thing is that she’s getting her lunch and you also retrace your actions. But she sees you together with instantly puts her sandwich down to come help you. She patiently takes you with the summer collection so it helps you attempt around the distinct dresses, urging that you attempt more and more points. On account of her, you have the ideal dress that you’ve got been searching for and disappear feeling delighted. You promise oneself that you undoubtedly return make certain you recommend the site to your friends likewise.
How come Customer satisfaction Extremely important?
Should it not feel happy whenever we visit a shop and there is anyone to assist you such as the quicker example? Someone that won’t make it appear to be assisting you out is usually a job plus a chore? Conversely, have you ever entered a local store, just to n’t have your presence registered without 1 in existence to assist you? Or worse still, some grouch who gets someone to question your sanity if your considered entering a store came to you (I am not sure. I only work here)? However when you enter a store and so are ‘looked after’, you leave a store feeling happy, satisfied and even go back there.
6-pack this feeling come about? Because there is excellent customer service ship to. And due to this customer service, there is automatic client satisfaction. Which in turn makes sure that the customer turns into a common patron (client loyalty), earns far more clients which ultimately assists your small business thrive. Thus it all comes from expending productive customer care and being aware what is extremely good customer service.
Precisely what are each of the wares and services for in any other case to the shoppers? So need to it not be understood their satisfaction guarantees their return and for that reason help promote your small business? It’s so easy. You retain the buyer content and so they make you stay pleased by making certain this company runs smoothly. Why is customer support vital? That’s why.
Customer satisfaction Suggestions
Supplying for things to look for is vital. We realize that now. Listed here are many ways on what customer service is usually guaranteed. These are very important customer service strategies for small enterprise firms and also established businesses. Here are the secrets of beneficial customer support:Train your personnel to make certain they are aware of the forms of customer support. Such as – Smile, be wanting to support, walk out of tips on how to make sure the purchaser gets what they’re trying to find, answer doubts, update them about new items or services, never argue while using consumers, get them to really feel welcome, inquire immediately after them and so on. For this to happen, give normal training sessions in order for the staff is always updated within this account.Target building a rapport using the prospects. If your skilled relationship transcends right into an individual one, it makes sure that the purchaser will return. Try this by remembering names and inquiring immediately after them.In no way ignore any troubles or complaints that the client is included with. Normally take personal interest and solve them. This shows that you value your prospects. When the personnel are not educated to deal with this chances are they’ll really should be told to direct these to the proper anybody such as a manager.Giving special gifts every once in awhile is an excellent way to keep your shoppers pleased.Send birthday greetings in addition to letters that educate your customers about the varied offers, discounts and sales.If you can, produce an inside magazine or even a newsletter that highlights various elements of the company. This will give your customers an in depth report with the enterprise and assist them to keep company with it at a personal level.Offering for community service provides a good self image for that organization. This ultimately assists like a superb publicity tool helping acquire buyers and ensures customer loyalty.The reason why customer service essential to a profitable business? For all your causes mentioned above and more. Understanding this straightforward concept and keeping these service strategies in your mind will guarantee your customers are an excellent venture. It’s as easy as that will thankfully equally as effective.
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How To Improve Customer Service With Cultural Sensitivity Training
by morpheyous on Jan.11, 2012, under Customer Service
How To Improve Customer Service With Cultural Sensitivity Training
Article by Bill Walsh
Give all of your customers world class service by implementing cultural sensitivity training.
Your customers deserve the best customer service on the planet. After all, regardless of what kind of business you operate, your clientele is liable to take their business elsewhere if they feel they can receive better service. In today’s marketplace, this often necessitates implementing some form of cultural sensitivity training.
No doubt you spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how to improve customer service. You wouldn’t survive in business if you didn’t. The last thing anyone can afford in today’s economy (or any economy, really) is to allow employees to drive paying customers away.
Many business owners would be surprised if they knew just how many cultural sensitivity violations occur right in their place of business, both between employees and from employees to customers. Cultural sensitivity training helps show you and your employees how to improve customer service by addressing these kinds of concerns in your place of business:
Racism and prejudice:The work place is no place for racial slurs, ever. Arguably, there is no appropriate place for language which demeans another person based on ethnicity. Beyond a doubt, it doesn’t belong in front of your customers.
Sexism: Customers deserve to be treated with respect, but all too often women (and in some cases men) are treated as though they are unequal, even when they are paying customers. By implementing cultural sensitivity training, employers are able to help employees understand how they are expected to interact with members of the opposite gender. One reason to address this is to make sure that customers all receive the best customer service possible, regardless of their gender.
Language:Barriers While cultural sensitivity training isn’t going to help your employees to speak or understand a foreign language, it will help them to have patience with clients or customers who may not have a full grasp of our language. You may be pleasantly surprised to find that when you give an international client the best customer service despite language and cultural differences, you are likely to have won a customer for life.
Sexual Orientation: These days, sexual orientation is a hot button issue, and many people have very strong feelings one way or the other about it. It is increasingly important for employees to understand how to improve customer service to all people, including those who may be of a different sexual orientation.
Harassment:These days, failing to provide cultural sensitivity training for your employees can cost you more than a customer. If your employees harass a customer or fellow employee, you could find your business facing a lawsuit. It is important for all employees to understand cultural sensitivity. Not only will it help them understand how to improve customer service, but it can help curb harassment complaints.
The next time you consider how to improve customer service for today’s diverse customer base, start by considering implementing cultural sensitivity training. After all, your customers deserve the best customer service. All of your customers.
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Bill Walsh has successfully developed/delivered over 2500 training engagements in the U.S., Canada & the U.K. He has appeared on radio, TV & has been quoted in Fortune Magazine & the Wall Street Journal. For more info & proven solutions to your training problems visit http://www.proven-training-solutions.com
Concerns Associated with Outsourcing Customer Service
by morpheyous on Jan.09, 2012, under Customer Service
Concerns Associated with Outsourcing Customer Service
Article by Ted Smiths
Customer service is one of the most important non-core business processes of a company. This is an activity that companies carry out to ensure satisfaction and retention of their customers. Having good customer service is an effective strategy in marketing the business. It plays a big role in creating goodwill of a company in catering to the wants and needs of its customers. Customer help desk is a key factor that differentiates a company from others; especially to its competitors. It is very important to provide good customer service since it is the key to retention of customers. These customers are the lifeblood of your business and they should be taken care of properly. Having satisfied customers will most likely expand the reach of your business because these customers provide more referrals than new customers. They also spend more than new customers; selling your products to your repeat customers is cheaper then selling them to your prospects.
Many companies are now outsourcing customer help desk in order to save money and increase productivity. There are a lot of advantages your company could gain in customer service outsourcing. These advantages include the opportunity to tap into state-of-the-art technology and expert services, expansion of contacts and business market, budget flexibility, time and services. Hiring the right customer help desk outsourcing company will define the success of your outsourcing business.
Indeed, there are countless advantages that outsourcing brings to the business. However, it is still important to remember that when a company chooses to outsource customer service, its management needs to be aware of the advantages and also the pitfalls of this choice. Some of the concerns associated with outsourcing include:
• An effective working relationship is bounded by trust. And trust is developed in time. In customer service outsourcing, outsourcers and outsourcing companies must have a mutual understanding about the service and the way it should be delivered. • Subcontracting customer help desk to a third party means companies no longer have complete and infinite control over the process. The management of customer help desk representatives will be handled by the outsourcing vendor. • Some company employees resent outsourcing customer help desk offshore; this sometimes makes them reluctant to work with the outsourced staff.
There are ways to make outsourced customer help desk more enticing to customers and makes it more effective by lessening its possible negative effects. This can be achieved by hiring the right outsourcing provider, which is not only good in delivering excellent customer service but also in understanding the operation of your business industry. Choose an outsourcing business partner that hires the best people and then train them to be even better. Its pool of customer service representative should be composed of highly skilled individuals in the industry. A good business partner invests both in its people and its technologies to be used in operations. It should posses the most comprehensive set of tools that match the needs of your business.
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Make sure your standards for good customer service are clearly defined and communicated.
by morpheyous on Jan.07, 2012, under Customer Service
Make sure your standards for good customer service are clearly defined and communicated.
Article by Srigrace
It can stir up a wealth of emotions when you ask people what they think of when they hear the words customer service support. Based on prior experiences in general, customers’ perceptions can be as varied as “Oh no! Add in the words e-commerce, software, or online to the phrase customer service, and often times peoples’ reactions are quite a bit more negative than “Oh no!”
“In the world of internet customer service support, it is important to remember your competitor is only a mouse click away.” – Doug Warner
As an online business owner or technical service rep for an e-commerce business, these reactions and perceptions are a built-in bias you must overcome. The best way to do that is to set the bar higher than the general accepted level of “good” customer service. You also must remember that for your customer, or potential customer, sharing their unhappiness about you, your company, or your product with 5000 of their nearest and dearest friends is also a mouse click, status update, or tweet away.
Setting Your Standards
Think about how it is you would rather be treated, and then create a company or personal set of standards based on that. Make sure your standards for good customer support service are clearly defined and communicated.
Remember, for a business, good technical support service means you should be proactive, not reactive, to your customers’ needs. Customers are looking for solutions to their problems, not just a product or service, and they want to feel good about their purchase. They want you, the person providing customer service to them, to make them feel good about their purchase.
Customer Service, Sight Unseen
While the internet has made finding out about and shopping for new products so much easier, at the same time, it has also made it much easier to hide behind that faceless, anonymous wall for technical support service. Besides setting high standards for treating customers well, you also want customers to have a sense of ease when it comes to getting good technical service.
For many e-commerce businesses, making use of real-time, live chat programs to talk with their customers is a very useful tool to have in the Live chat service toolbox. At a click of a button from the company website, customers are connected with a technical support service representative. More complicated issues can not only be reported, but are tracked within the live chat system until that issue is resolved. Customers feel good that a representative of the company or product is available to help.
Remember, Treat Others as You Wish to Be Treated
The ethic of reciprocity, also known as the Golden Rule, has existed for a very long time, for very good reason. The best rule for great customer service is to treat your customers the way you would want to be treated yourself – with respect, patience, and courtesy.
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