How Your Customer Support Help Desk Feeds Your Knowledge Base

Build Knowledge Base from Help Desk Customer Support

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In a competitive business environment, it's more important than ever to keep customers happy. You need a proactive, customer-centric help desk and an in-depth and helpful knowledge base sitting alongside that.

Not only does this help customers when things go wrong, but it also makes it easier for them to use a product. Customers are happier when they can access everything they need without requiring assistance from a help desk.

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Striving for Excellence? These are the Customer Service Soft Skills You Need

Customer Service Soft Skills

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The most important pillar in building a successful business is providing excellent customer service. A customer service representative (CSR) is the face of a company and can make or break a deal in most cases. However, providing perfect customer service is difficult, and it is even more difficult to find an ideal candidate with customer service skills for your company. While the demand for a candidate with good customer service skills has increased, many company CEOs have pointed out that finding their ideal CSR is as difficult as searching for a needle in a haystack. 

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Call Center Best Practices and Innovation Ideas for the 2020s

Call Cdnter Best Practices and Innovations

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Whenever we think of a call center, what comes to our mind can be the image of a warehouse-sized room packed with desks and air conditioners where you can hear phones ringing continuously and agents working tirelessly answering queries. However, such visuals are rare these days.

A contact center is an essential part of a company as it provides customer support and generates leads, and the latest call center innovative ideas have made them economical and scalable for companies. If you are planning to start one for your company, below is everything you need to know about innovations and best practices for a call center which are essential for its effectiveness. But before exploring, we first need to understand a few foundational ideas about call centers.

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Customer Service Loving Their Haters: How to Respond to Negative Reviews Plus Examples

Handling Negative Customer Reviews

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The major obsession of companies using social media in the past was to make every customer or visitor fall in love with their company or their products. Because of this, companies used to panic whenever they received any negative reviews on their social media pages and did not know how to respond to them. Some of these reviews were genuine, and some were fabricated by their competitors. It is easy to fake a review to malign a company's reputation, thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet. People these days conveniently post a negative review without hesitation, remorse, and without even thinking how much damage a casual negative review can do to a company's position if a company does not know how to respond to a negative review.

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Chatbot Uses and Statistics: How Does Your Customer Really Feel?

Chatbot Uses Statistics How Do Your Customers Really Feel

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Chatbots for business is a major requirement today, as they save time, money and are effective for a company. They are automated customer support services, used to carry out simple and repetitive tasks that help to address common customer questions. They have proved to boost productivity, improve customer retention and increase referrals for organizations. 

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What are OmniChannel Customer Experience Strategies, Customer Service, Support, Platforms & Examples

OmniChannel Customer Experience

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What is OmniChannel?

A "channel" in business is simply a medium through which a company can communicate its products to customers. This can be done through websites, advertisement hoardings, social media platforms, or by contacting customers via email, phone calls, or messages.

In the past, marketing was done through one or two channels or mediums such as printing advertisements in a newspaper or running television ads, but now with the availability of smart devices, such as mobiles or tabs, there are a plethora of digital platforms through which a company can market their product to the customers anywhere in the world. This kind of marketing interaction is called Multi-Channel Marketing. In multi-channel, a company can advertise their products and get feedback for their services on different platforms. This helps in getting a wider reach to customers, but the drawback is that all these apps and platforms work separately from one another, and to extract feedback from them is a difficult task and results in longer response time. A multi-channel environment is a great approach to increase the overall visibility of the products but does not provide good customer service or customer experience.

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Help Desk Tips: How to Deal With Angry Customers

How to Handle Angry Customers

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Have you noticed people seem to be angrier these days? It is more than a coincidence. Polling company, Gallup, surveyed 160,000 people in 116 countries during 2020 and early 2021. The results, shared via Forbes, show that anger, stress, and sadness are at all-time highs. Interestingly enough, it is not solely due to the global pandemic - which has certainly raised tensions. These statistics have been trending in the wrong direction for many years now. Uncertainty seems to be the biggest contributor to people feeling down or upset. As is highlighted in the survey, 4 in 10 adults have experienced some form of stress or worry in recent times. 

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Customer Service Recruitment Strategies in a Post-Pandemic World

Customer Service Recruitment Strategies in a Post Pandemic World

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The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic created unique challenges for the economy. In its early days, employers across many sectors could not keep as much staff as they normally would. Financial constraints, combined with an uncertain future, resulted in temporary lay-offs and permanent restructuring. As the economy has bounced back, employers have faced a new problem - worker shortages. Why is this? In data collected by HRReporter, reasons range from available unemployment benefits, a preference to work from home, and demands for higher wages. According to Innoflow, the situation in the United States will go from bad to worse if not tackled soon. They claim that we could see:

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Customer Service Excellence Across All Generations

Customer Service Excellence Across Generations

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Excellent customer service starts with empathy, patience, and understanding your customers' needs. To deliver this, it is critical for a service representative to understand how consumers think and react to a conversation. One major factor that determines the course and outcome of a conversation is the generational difference when dealing with a customer. This may be the first time in history that customer service representatives are tasked with dealing with customers from five generations. Because of this, it is not possible to have one approach for all customers. Rather, a service representative needs to deploy different strategies and special forms of communication to deliver exceptional customer service across all five generations. For that, a service representative needs to be aware of the differences in the mindset of each generation and must be able to meet the expectations of each group accordingly.

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Stages of the Customer Journey: What is Customer Experience vs Customer Service vs Customer Support

Customer Journey Help

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A customer walks into a business or starts using an online service. At this point, customer service may not even be necessary. However, there are specific points in the customer journey when customer experience knowledge is required versus customer service skills versus customer support expertise.

A customer journey is the sequence of customer events that take place throughout the customer-business relationship, which typically include customer acquisition, purchasing, usage, and renewal. But what are the support stages of the customer journey? When do I need customer support instead of customer service? When should customer service take over from customer support? These are important questions for you to consider before you invest in any of the services.

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