According to Freshdesk’s Future of CX report, the pandemic has forced consumers to adapt to digital channels. While the consumers of 2023 prefer digital-first experiences, they expect service providers to keep up with quality customer service across channels. As companies revisit their customer service strategy, they can take a leaf out of companies that get customer service right.
Service teams have lots on their plates right now, and customers expect seamless, instantaneous customer support. And while AI can certainly be used to make support agents' lives easier, it's too difficult to implement without an army of developers and accruing high costs…right? Not quite. Zendesk has made AI tools that are accessible to companies and teams of all sizes.
Customer expectations are changing – shoppers want instant answers to their questions at any time of the day. More importantly, they expect their interactions with customer service teams to lead to a resolution. No friction, no bumps. Technology is changing, too. AI has never been more available, and bots are more sophisticated than ever before. That's why businesses are looking for ways to introduce bots in customer conversations.
Reducing customer service costs while still providing a five-star customer experience doesn’t happen by magic. Find out how tailoring your customer service into tiers can solve this challenge.
Any customer support team receives a range of customer requests throughout the day. These can include requests for adding new users, “how-to” questions, password retrieval, and more. The requests are often recurring, and a technology-based customer support tool is needed to implement an agent workflow that allows easy and efficient management of each customer request.
Just as having help desk software is essential, so is measuring team performance. And the way to do that is through service desk KPIs. But which help desk metrics should you focus on for your team when there are so many to consider? The answer isn't always clear or straightforward.
Financial services are at a pivotal point in the industry. The meteoric rise of NFTs and cryptocurrency has given way to rumblings of a pending recession, fuelled by the collapse of several notable banks in recent months. As we emerge from the pandemic, however, some things haven’t changed: virtual work is the new normal. Many employees are still remote and customers expect to connect with your company on their mobile devices.
We’ve all been there. Unlocking our phone, opening the Uber or Lyft app, and ordering a ride. When we do so, both the driver and rider are agreeing to certain terms and conditions: picking the rider up within a designated time frame, how much the trip should cost, an estimated arrival time, and delivering the rider to their destination safely. This agreement of sorts is similar to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), which ensures service obligations and promises are kept.
Customer service is more important today than ever before. The customer service teams that are driving revenue, wow-ing customers and building long-term relationships often have a strong leader at the helm. Sure, you can hire a customer service leader consultant, but if you are looking for the best in-house operators, you’ve come to the right place. We wanted to recognize our 25 favorite customer service practitioners doing incredible work in the CX space today.
