From ordering a ride to sourcing a dog sitter with ease, many are drawn to gig economy platforms for their sheer simplicity and convenience. It is a unique structure, one that involves gig economy workers, and the customers they serve (the drivers plus the riders). How is customer support delivered by these companies, across various channels?
CX organisations come in all shapes, sizes and configurations. And there are challenges and opportunities in every single one of them. Zendesk surveyed nearly 5,000 customer service decision-makers around the world to find how their organisation’s adoption of customer service and support best practice improves its ability to deliver superior customer experience (CX). The resulting 2022 CX Accelerator report uncovers fascinating insights about real-life pain points and clear calls to action.
If you wish to build a loyal customer base, you must be willing to go the extra mile to meet customer expectations every time you engage with a customer. That’s because customer loyalty is a by-product of high customer satisfaction. Many companies seem to think that their customer expectations will be met with whatever it is that they offer, but that’s rarely ever the case.
Congratulations on your big step to onboard a help desk system! You no longer have to worry about unattended customer inquiries or struggle to balance the workload evenly among your support team members. You get to effortlessly assign ownership for requests, track your team’s progress, and measure customer satisfaction. To realize the immense value of a help desk, you need to first set it up the right way for you and your support team.
The pressure is on healthcare companies to deliver a better end-to-end customer experience—otherwise, it is truly an insult to injury. The largest healthcare and insurance groups have their own legacy systems to untangle and integrate, but smaller healthcare outfits are also on the hook—and, arguably, at an advantage—to scale and grow with customers top of mind.
As per Social Stamina, 64% of customers expect a reply within an hour of posting on Twitter, and 85% expect a company to respond within six hours. While this trend in customer expectations applies to almost all industries across the board, certain businesses – such as e-commerce apps – are witnessing an all-time high in traffic. Most companies may be crowded with service-related concerns, drowning customer support agents in an ever-increasing volume of tickets.
Every product or service is designed to address specific customer pain points or challenges. Yet, why is it that only a few are an instant hit among the masses, and the rest pass by unnoticed? Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, you can excel only when you identify and solve for the right customer needs. Read this guide and find answers to.
Change is the only constant in the retail service industry. That’s certainly been true in the past several years, when a record number of customers flocked to online channels to do their shopping. Almost overnight, retailers big and small had to adapt to a whole new way of serving their customers digitally. For retailers to compete in today’s crowded market, they need to create excellent customer relationships in all the places people shop—online and in brick-and-mortar stores.
To provide the best customer support at any phase in your customer’s lifecycle, your teams need access to contact and company data—and every team must have access to the same information. This requires a centralised location for all relevant communications and open support tickets, and the ability to streamline information between sales, marketing and support teams.
