Mindtouch

APRIL 11, 2018

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. Executed well, a web self-service experience can be your 24/7 customer support department.

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Toister Performance Solutions

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Before the advent of order confirmations, it wasn’t uncommon for customers to worry about whether their order was received or when it would arrive. Order confirmations reduce customer effort and make online ordering easier. They provide assurance and, in most cases, prevent customers from calling. What is customer effort?

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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? Sure, you can hire friendly customer service employees.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 5, 2018

A good knowledge base CRM integration should empower agents to do their jobs more efficiently. It should also enable customer self-service and, by doing so, positively impact customer service KPIs like ticket deflection , mean time to resolution, and customer satisfaction (CSAT). Case Linking.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Customer suggestions, ideas, and complaints will help you identify areas for improvement and create better experiences. Surveys like the NPS (Net Promoter Score), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction), and CES (Customer Effort Score) can help you gauge customer satisfaction with your brand. Implementing self-service and AI.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 15, 2018

These days, the definition of customer education is expanding. More specifically, customer preferences are shifting —across the entire customer journey—toward self-service. What Is Customer Education? Why Self-service Is So Important. Think knowledge base articles, FAQs, and customer stories.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Music to our humble ears, as you might have guessed; but it’s also a guiding principle in our approach to self-service support. Though there are many aspects to good self-service strategy, search remains principle among them. Well, plenty of knowledge base search experiences are … well … bad.

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TechSee

APRIL 17, 2022

Jones calls to follow up, Alice already has the account information on the screen, including policy number, claim history, and the pictures of the damage Alice uploaded via a self-service wizard on the insurer’s website. Why Organizations Should Embrace Warm Transfer In their Customer Journey Strategy.

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Mindtouch

MAY 15, 2018

Reducing customer effort has become a high-priority objective for most companies. Central to improving customer effort scores is useful and timely content. This increases customer effort by making it difficult for customers to find information. But Google itself is not the problem.

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Tethr

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

So your organization set a goal around improving your Customer Effort Score, now what? Without knowing where or why effort is occurring in customer interactions, where do you start? Step #1 – Use the Tethr Effort Library to identify instances of effort in customer interactions.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Raghavendra Rao, Director of Customer Excellence at Sprinklr , outlines three steps to build a customer service strategy centered around self-service. Have you ever been in a situation where you were running late for a flight, and an airport self-service kiosk saved the day? It’s a win-win.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

Accordingly, knowledge management—and specifically knowledge management tools—has emerged as a major organizational priority. What is knowledge management? What is a knowledge base? Knowledge management vs. knowledge base. Stakeholders in knowledge management. Knowledge management KPIs.

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TechSee

JULY 14, 2020

Contact center and field service departments have traditionally operated independently of each other, but visual collaboration means both technicians and agents can utilize a single platform where they can capture and leverage images, working together to resolve customer issues. Visual Self-Service.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

While self-service could relieve some of the pressure to agents, it couldn’t keep pace with the flood of complex calls. In fact, Gartner estimates that of the 70 percent of customers who attempt self-service during their resolution journey, only 9 percent of calls are resolved through that channel alone.

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Customer Service Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s no revolutionary concept to survey customers to determine if they are satisfied with their experience. Or perhaps you prefer a different flavor like gauging their loyalty (Net Promoter Score) or effort to solve an issue (Customer Effort Score). Listen for opportunities to improve self-service.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Instead, remote support is available at every channel and at every touchpoint of the customer’s journey – from purchase and setup through warranty activation, and all the way to troubleshooting issues. 6: Encourage self-service and automation. Looking Ahead with these Remote Support Best Practices.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Today’s savviest businesses are embracing the importance of a self-service strategy. It makes sense, when you consider the data: 71% of customers want the ability to resolve issues on their own. That, and the crucial ways self-service can impact customer support KPIs. How does content fuel ticket deflection?

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Nicereply

JANUARY 18, 2023

Why you should use help desk software Help desk software typically comes with a set of helpful features (like ticket automation, SLA management, analytics and reporting, self-service capabilities, etc.) that make things easier for both – support agents and customers. Early-stage startups can get Zendesk free for 6 months.

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Mindtouch

JANUARY 24, 2018

What if knowledge managers could refocus in a few fundamental areas, boost Net Promoter Score, and improve the customer self-service experience overall? It starts with asking the hard questions—taking an unflinching inventory of the support content experience we’re putting our customers through. Forget about it.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

The coming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era of exponential technological growth, has certainly changed the scope for customer experience. New technologies like live chat, knowledge base and ticketing systems are just a few examples of this technological era. Accurate Information Via Self-Service.

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GetFeedback

MAY 17, 2018

91% of consumers will use a self-service knowledge base if provided. What it means: Traditional support channels like phone and email often cost your customers more time and energy than they’re willing to spend. That means happier customers and fewer support cases for your team.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

Let’s go into 5 ways you can provide and maintain excellent customer service and reduce your support expenses at the same time. Get the most out of self-service and AI solutions. Pandemic-driven self-service and AI adoption continue to grow. For basic issues, most consumers would prefer self-service options.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Your customer wants quick, easy answers to their simple questions. CEB, the insight and technology company that investigates customer loyalty best practices, reported that 67% of customers prefer self-service over talking to your team. So how can we meet our customer’s self-service demands?

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Inbenta

MAY 11, 2020

Customer interaction management to the rescue. Self-service tools such as chatbots, knowledge management, and search engines have become very common and most customers are now used to interacting with these online. Applied to customer interaction management solutions, NLP can do wonders.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 19, 2018

Learn more about engaging with customers through Website Surveys. Survey Tip #3: Embed surveys into knowledge base articles. A great way to minimize support tickets is with 5-star knowledge base content. Knowledge base surveys are a great tool for measuring content effectiveness.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The ongoing shift to self-service has brought about many positive changes to the customer service field. Fewer customers now require assistance from live agents to pay bills or carry out other simple tasks. Helping customers resolve tricky issues puts pressure on the contact center in several ways.

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HGS

APRIL 24, 2018

The NICE inContact study focused on 10 customer experience channels that include solutions ranging from traditional phone support to self-service, email, chat, social media, and more. With the goal of optimized CX insight, start by asking yourself five questions about your service delivery.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 24, 2019

In order to get this information, you need to equip your support team with robust customer survey tools. These tools should provide you with the ability to create a variety of serves, as well as help you measure Net Promoter Score (NPS) , Customer Effort Score (CES) , and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT).

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Tethr

APRIL 5, 2019

At Tethr, we talk a lot about reducing customer effort and the research that went into The Effortless Experience. Our Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon , wrote the book on it (literally) and we invested in training the Tethr Platform to essentially listen to your customer calls like Matt’s researchers would at scale.

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Mindtouch

MAY 30, 2018

That’s because high ticket volume puts a strain on support agents, frustrates customers, and can create quite the financial expense. One way companies attempt to reduce call center volume is through online self-service. A regularly updated and well-optimized knowledge base is often a centerpiece of these efforts.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Deliver personalized, peculiar experiences that customers love. Eliminate customer effort through this sequential and systematic approach: defect elimination, self-service, automation, and support from an expert associate. Building up your self-service resources will help with the first point.

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Method:CRM

MARCH 8, 2023

A few popular ways to measure customer satisfaction are: Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT): Measures on average how satisfied or unsatisfied customers are with your product or service. Net Promoter Score (NPS): Gauges how likely it is that a customer would recommend your company to a friend or a colleague.

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Mindtouch

APRIL 26, 2018

Companies that don’t make at least some of their documentation public are likely missing a huge opportunity for self-service. Correction: their customers are definitely missing out on the opportunity to help themselves. That’s a self-service fail. Knowledge base articles. Help content.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 31, 2018

Measure self-service content with knowledge base surveys. The majority of customers prefer to figure things out on their own. With self-service resources like a customer knowledge base, you can give them the power to resolve problems themselves, which reduces work on your end.

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Nicereply

JUNE 10, 2021

She asked herself: How do we change things in the product and support systems to improve self-service and reduce customer effort? In Conversation with Alice Hunsberger, Senior Director of Customer Experience at Grindr.

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Netomi

MAY 13, 2022

Today’s customer support professionals have a lot on their plates – from interacting directly with customers and managing a steady stream of support tickets, to creating and updating libraries of self-service content. All this, while under pressure to keep customer satisfaction high and resolution time low.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 16, 2018

As customers reply, you can keep track of your average score and segment responses by specific criteria (like customer type, region, agent, etc.) Customer Effort Score (CES). Offering quick and effective support is the surest way to make your customers happy. Self-Service Metrics.

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