What is service culture, exactly? Is it a templated approach to customer service that support teams take? No, it isn’t as simple as that. Service culture is a sustainable organizational culture that bridges the void between workplace culture and customer-centricity. It encourages a collective effort from customer-facing teams across your company to inherently prioritize customers.
In this day and age, all aspects of life are progressively going online. This extends to even behemoths of organizations such as governments. Historically, governments have often lagged behind in keeping up with the most current technological landscape, opting instead to focus on running their jurisdictions and disciplines.
Building a successful remote team takes time, thought and planning, but it certainly yields huge benefits. Flexible work hours are no longer reserved for tech startups – in today’s age of global connectivity, entrepreneurs are able to hire the smartest, most competent people regardless of where they live. Without further ado, here’s how to choose, hire and motivate remote professionals and create a brain trust that delivers every time, everywhere.
Commencing in 2017, Wire pivoted its focus from consumers to enterprises with a goal to provide the enterprises with the world’s most secure collaboration software. Our technology is now used by over 700 enterprise customers around the world. Wire has been selected by some of the world's most security-conscious enterprise customers after passing all of their rigourous security testing.
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a project management and collaboration tool for small businesses (or small teams inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’ve also heard from thousands of people who use Basecamp outside of work. They’ve gone off-label and turned to Basecamp to help them manage all sorts of personal projects too. No surprise there – it really works!
The goal of every customer service team is to ensure that a customer’s issues or grievances are being addressed. Whether that’s a returned item, a billing discrepancy or a software bug – the first line of defense is the agent that your customer reaches out to. But what if the issue is the support received itself?
In 2016, Uber made an unexpected move and left Slack for Mattermost. The ridesharing company needed an enterprise-grade collaboration tool which Slack couldn’t scale. When Uber decided to create its messaging solution on Mattermost, both companies collaborated to implement an upgrade of Mattermost platform to meet Uber’s needs. Akamai, the world’s leading content delivery network service provider, has been using Zulip for remote collaboration with employees for many years.
Simply put, your business needs customer service strategies that improve their productivity and customer satisfaction. The right strategies help your customers resolve their issues faster and enable your agents to provide better support. Here are five of the winning customer service strategies every business should be using.
For more and more companies, offering customers exceptional omnichannel service and support has become a top priority. Customers have come to expect that they can connect with companies in the channels that are the most important to them—whether that’s email, phone, live chat, self-service FAQs, or social media. And for hundreds of millions of people around the world, that list of critical channels now includes WhatsApp.
