Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Today’s companies understand how customer service plays a critical role in their efforts to be “customer-centric”—it’s why many of them invest heavily in the various functions of customer support. By adding an element of customer-centricity to different facets of a business, these companies are changing what a customer service job can be.

When you are looking to build a community around your brand, you often ask yourself — what’s wrong with letting things run the way they are, right? Wrong! You can’t just let things run the way they are and expect your brand to become a hit. You need to constantly work towards building your brand’s authority and image. Building a community is one of the best ways to create a strong brand identity.

Chatbots are going head-to-head with human customer service. They can help you reduce customer service costs by up to 30%1 in some cases. But this certainly doesn’t mean that they are indispensable or so crucial, that they will make human interactions redundant. As a matter of fact, many consumers say that they actually prefer humans over bots.

Providing great customer service is the watershed between the success and failure of an organization. Delivering quality customer service involves a number of factors like maintaining a low first response time and having a vast self-service portal among others.

It’s been said that customer service is the new sales, and when it comes to upselling and customer retention this makes absolute sense. Your customer service officers are in contact with your customers every single day. They need to know the most frequently asked questions, the historical information of the customer, and the best upgrades they can offer to customers.

Omnichannel is the latest buzzword. Everywhere you turn, people are talking about it, with good reason. Today’s customers are present on multiple channels, and one of the best ways to stay relevant to them is to be available on all of these channels. To handle the volume of this ask, businesses are now taking an omnichannel approach to different functions such as marketing, customer service, sales, etc.

This month we’re happy to announce our new and improved Freshworks Marketplace. The new Marketplace offers a unified experience for users looking for apps to customize workflows and introduce additional functionality to Freshdesk and other Freshworks products.