Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

November 2019

Here are 10 Marketplace Apps That Can Help You Tame the Black Friday Beast

Kicking off with Black Friday, you can expect an influx of guests to your e-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores. With our latest set of Marketplace apps, not only can you give your support agents an added boost during the holiday crunch, but also elevate your customer experience across multiple touchpoints — turning this shopping season into a revenue bonanza.

How Follow the Sun Model helps you Deliver 24/7 Global Support

The idea behind the ‘Follow the Sun’ model involved software development teams, sitting across different worldwide locations, working on the same project. Essentially, each team would hand off work at the end of their workday, to another team who is starting their day on the other side of the world. This way work is carried out 24/7 with task handoffs taking place between each of these global teams after the shift of a particular location ends.

Empower Your Customer Support Team to Stay on Top of Holiday Delivery Issues

Customer support is one of the most critical functions of retail businesses. When your support processes function smoothly, they inspire the confidence of your customers and contribute to increased retention and lifetime value. This is particularly true during the last-mile-delivery phase. Quality support, especially in the last mile, helps demonstrate the robustness of your organizational processes, boosts profits, and contributes to an increase in the perceived credibility of your brand.

How to Inform Customers about Price Changes Without Impacting Customer Experience

You might be holding back from a much-needed price increase because you’re afraid to make your customers angry. Yes, it’s true that no one wants to suddenly have to pay more, but inflation is a very real thing and it is possible to increase your pricing in a way that your customer base will understand. There are a number of methods that you can employ to help ease the customer into price differences, making sure that there is little to no drop off or damage to your brand’s image.

8 Simple Ways to Lower Your Customer Effort Score (CES)

As customers, all of us have had at least one support experience that made us go ‘it’s really unfair that I had to go through so much to get this issue resolved’. For instance, when I tried to get help with fixing my washing machine, I was redirected from one team to another and I had to go over the details of my problem a dozen times before a rep was assigned.

Drive Your Customer Support Teams to Deliver Stellar Support and Increase Customer Satisfaction

The most common reason for getting in contact with a company’s Customer Support is that you’re facing a problem. Your Customer Support team regularly engages with customers in an extremely critical phase – when they are not satisfied. Your agents’ ability to turn their mood around is going to have a significant effect on your business performance.

How to Create a Digital Experience that the Connected Customer Loves

We live in a more connected world than ever before. 90% of consumers have and use multiple devices to complete everyday tasks (including shopping) so having just a great in-store experience, or a killer website is no longer enough. In 2019, you have to provide a consistently excellent experience on all channels to win over the connected customer. However, the effort is worth it, as the rewards are great.

How To Build A Winning Customer Service Culture In Your Company

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.

The Guide to Escalation Management in Customer Service

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?

Freshdesk Mobile App Facelift - Five Features that Change Your Support Game

Today’s consumers expect a prompt, seamless support and service experience across all touchpoints, every single time. This translates to frequent, but shorter customer interactions as consumers have more access points to your brand. The expectations are clear: Support agents have a growing need to manage customer queries on-the-go.

How to build a data-first customer service team

U.S. companies lose more than $62 billion annually due to poor customer service. That’s why getting customer service right should be a priority for every business, regardless of size. And in order to provide this exceptional customer service, businesses need to be data-driven, and make use of data from a variety of different sources. Data isn’t as complicated as you might think. Most modern customer service systems provide the necessary support to build a data-driven customer service team.