How AI Can Help In Customer Service

How AI Can Help In Customer Service

22 . February . 2023

AI may seem like magic, but it’s not the end-all-be-all of software. In fact, many of the features and user benefits you strive for can be achieved without it.

Customer service has been an integral part of business enterprise for years.

This discipline helps build trust and confidence in the mind of customers, which is a requisite for sustained growth and continued success. As technology changes, so have your customer’s service needs.

If your company is still manually responding to customer service requests, you’re wasting lots of valuable time, energy, and other resources.

AI might sound intimidating, but automated tools are available for any size and scale company.

AI and hyper automation can help your organization provide its best customer service.

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The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees

The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees

27 . September . 2022

Many business executives believe that, by definition, services simply can’t be guaranteed. Services are generally delivered by human beings, who are known to be less predictable than machines, and they are usually produced at the same time they are consumed. It is one thing to guarantee a camera, which can be inspected before a customer sets eyes on it and which can be returned to the factory for repairs. But how can you pre-inspect a car tune-up or send an unsuccessful legal argument or bad haircut back for repair? Obviously you can’t.
But that doesn’t mean customer satisfaction can’t be guaranteed. A good service guarantees should be:

• Unconditional
• Easy to understand and communicate
• Meaningful
• Easy (and painless) to invoke
• Easy and quick to collect on
• And for organizations, guarantees should:
• Force you to focus on customers
• Set clear standards for employees
• Encourage feedback from customers
• Promote an understanding of the service delivery system

Build customer loyalty for organizations with guarantees in place or considering adding a guarantee, it would be wise to evaluate them against.

Another important factor to consider is ensuring that your customer service teams have the authority to grant the guarantee to your customers without seeking managerial approval or making them jump through hoops. It needs to be just as easy for a customer service agent to grant the guarantee request from a customer as it is for the customer to receive it on their own.

A hassle-free utilization of the guarantee can give customers a renewed confidence in your organization’s ability to deliver on your commitments. It also gives your frontline representatives the opportunity to satisfy customers the first time, every time – which makes for a better working environment.

I know what some of you are thinking – service guarantees don’t apply to us. In this case, I think they certainly can and might even deliver breakthrough service and a powerful competitive advantage. Transparent guarantees can help clients move away from “lowest-price” decision making criteria to a “price-value” decision, which in turn can improve customer retention in the long-term. In this day of social media raves and rants, having a good guarantee might be the difference between a one-star and a five-star rating.

Organizations that figure out how to offer—and deliver—guaranteed, breakthrough service will have tapped into a powerful source of competitive advantage. Doing so is no mean feat, of course, which is precisely why the opportunity to build a competitive advantage exists. Though the task is difficult, it is clearly not impossible, and the service guarantee can play a fundamental role in the process.

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Maintain Your Contact Center’s Service Level

Maintain Your Contact Center’s Service Level

23 . July . 2022

Your contact center’s service level is an important indicator of your availability to customers—and how well-designed your strategy for managing customers and callers is.

Different contact centers measure this in slightly different ways. You could look at a specific metric—the percentage of calls answered within a set timeframe, for instance.

You've probably heard the oft-quoted industry standard of answering at least 80% of calls in under 20 seconds.

Let’s have a look on contact center service level agreement, and the two parts that typically make up this concept.

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How to Keep Remote Workers Engaged in a Virtual Team

How to Keep Remote Workers Engaged in a Virtual Team

14 . June . 2022

Remote work is becoming common practice in many industries. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, more companies than ever before are allowing their employees to work from home to help flatten the curve and protect the vulnerable.

Ways to keep remote employees engaged

Here are some ways to maintain your company culture and make your virtual staff feel like they’re truly part of the team.

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Contact Center Target Operating Model

Contact Center Target Operating Model

16 . May . 2022

An effective target operating model creates clarity, alignment, and strategic direction for the contact center. By identifying an operating framework, the contact center is positioned to achieve its strategic priorities and become a source of competitive advantage.
Sharing what makes the contact center unique provides employees with a sense of purpose and a unified objective, which are great contributors in delivering a differentiated service experience.

Contact Center Target Operating Model Methodology

The foundation of target operating model emanates from four pillars: vision and mandate, people, process, and technology.

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