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5 Self-Service Pitfalls That Increase Customer Effort

Mindtouch

Self-service for the sake of self-service just isn’t enough. Because the truth is, your self-service experience probably isn’t as good as it could be. What follows is a list of common self-service fails to avoid. Let’s start simple: good self-service content is written well.

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Lower Customer Effort, Supercharge Customer Experience

Mindtouch

Customer experience is no different. Most customers prefer one support call to two— self-service over having to wait on someone else for answers. In a word: most of us expect customer effort to be as low as possible. Hello, Customer Experience? We Have a Problem. Data source: Forrester.

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Guest Blog: The 8 Elements of Customer Support Quality

ShepHyken

Reduce effort for the customers, on the other hand, and you’ll go far in improving the customer experience. In fact, reducing customer effort is shown to be more important to the customer than exceeding expectations. Any reduction in steps directly improves the customer experience.

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4 Tips to Improve Customer Effort Score Using Self-Service

Mindtouch

If you’re banging your head against the wall, wondering what the cause of your lackluster customer effort scores (CES) is, good on you. You care about your customers! The answers you’re looking for, though, could be hiding in a place you haven’t thought to look: your self-service strategy.

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Customer self-service: Set your team up for success

delighted

If they turn directly to your support team, then you’re missing out on an opportunity to ease customer pain and save your team time through customer self-service. What is customer self-service? Why is customer self-service important? Why is customer self-service important?

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5 Web Self-Service Essentials

Mindtouch

If your customers want to pump their own gas, you let them. The same goes for self-service. If your customers prefer to solve issues on their own (as it turns out, they very much do ), you need to enable them to do so. Not only that, you need to make that experience as frictionless as possible. Optimize for mobile.

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Guest Blog: The 8 Elements of Customer Support Quality

ShepHyken

Reduce effort for the customers, on the other hand, and you’ll go far in improving the customer experience. In fact, reducing customer effort is shown to be more important to the customer than exceeding expectations. Any reduction in steps directly improves the customer experience.