One of the most frustrating experiences is to finally win a customer, only for them to stop using your service after a few weeks or months. You spent all that time and money trying to win them over, and the result suddenly vanishes. While there are plenty of reasons for this, one of the biggest is your customer onboarding. If your new converts don’t know what to do or how to use your product or service, then they’re not likely to stick around.

From email to helpdesk, businesses come a long way. As your business expands, so do the needs of your customers—you have to expand your support to social media, you need to be mindful of all the small changes you make to your automation rules, strengthen security, etc. When you’re using a system that works well for small businesses but isn’t designed for scale, it might fail to perform when faced with heavy data.

If you’re reaching high growth levels, your business must be doing something right. You’re increasing profit, growing your customer base, and hiring new employees in a rush. But if you don’t scale your customer service to support all of those new customers, your competitors could catch up to you. If you want to make the success last and stay on the fast track to rapid growth, you’ll need to make sure that your support approach is innovative.

After switching to a different email address, I recently logged in to my client account to change the contact information my mobile company had. On seeing the email field greyed out and uneditable, I visited their Help and Support page for assistance. Live chat support was available. It was 9:31 in the morning. Someone was already waiting for me—Gie. This Facebook Messenger-based bot initiated the conversation with one of the more tedious stages of getting support: account verification.

The internet gives brands a unique customer service opportunity that didn’t exist even a few years ago. Now, brands can directly communicate with customers, and customers can share stories about brands with just a few clicks. This means that stories about your business can be sent out to thousands of people almost instantaneously, making them accessible to 3.39 billion internet users1. Sometimes these stories gain a huge amount of traction and can place your company in front of new prospects.

Customer service most often relies on a support team that works to help all levels of your organization. But those teams don’t just run on their own. They need someone to lead the team and make important decisions when the going gets tough. That’s where a customer service manager (CSM) steps in.

Customer service is a stressful job. People are constantly coming to you with issues that they feel should be your top priority, and they want quick fixes. After a while, the stress will begin to build up. If you don’t have a way to de-stress, you’re going to eventually burn out, and lash out at a customer or a colleague. So, it’s important to find ways to keep your stress levels under control. I want to share six great ways to do it.

What a customer takes home from a brand is the experience it provides. Gartner proved that customer experience is a game-changer for brands. In fact, 81% of companies1 expect to compete on the basis of customer experience in 2019. This head-on competition is driving brands to strengthen their customer experience strategies.