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The Importance of Customer Self Service Portal

Kayako

In fact, 79% of US consumers say they have used a self-service portal for customer service, and 88% of customers expect companies to have self-service options. 65% use self-service channels because they like the convenience and don’t want to talk to agents or wait on hold to do simple routine tasks.

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How to Think about Chatbots in a Big Picture Kinda Way

Fonolo

What does the future hold for customer service? A common theme in answer to this question is, “Improvements in automation and self-service will erode the importance for call centers.” It also gets strengthened by the marketing efforts of all the vendors selling self-serve technology. Another Way to Think About it.

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4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year

Fonolo

Their “Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service” was included in our last report round-up post.) China Merchant Bank’s bot [served on WeChat] handles more natural customer conversations… 1.5 to 2 million interactions per day [which] …would typically require thousands of additional customer care agents to handle.”.

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The New Super-Agent

VocalCom

Going forward, the use of big data and analysis powered conversational assistants, chatbots and self-service, will automate the handling of simple enquiries, will allow customers to quickly and easily fix their issues themselves, 24/7. The rise of self-service has made human support even more critical.

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4 Insightful Contact Center Reports You Should Be Reading

Fonolo

For this report they surveyed customer experience, contact center, marketing, customer care, IT, and operations professionals. Compare, for example with State of Customer Care report we covered here. See Is Chat Eating into Phone-Based Customer Service? Popularity of chat support continues to rise.

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How to Turn Social Media Customer Service into a Marketing Strategy

ShepHyken

Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially. Social Media Changes Customer Service. Social Proof.

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Bad News Does NOT Get Better With Age – Transparency & Customer Onboarding Are Critical, And All Too Often Poorly Performed

Connecting the Dots

Flag customers that need onboarding or education; Motivate (via scaring, bribing or humoring ) those customers to get educated; Provide basic education on product use and how to avoid problems; Guide customers to self-service tools; Educate on advanced features; and. Evaluate education and onboarding.