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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nicereply

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Asking questions that you already have the answer to can hurt customer experience by increasing the customer effort required to resolve their issue. They allow an agent to follow the steps and recreate a customer’s actions accurately. Which tools do agents regularly access to find information to help close tickets?

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 17, 2019

SeatGeek has been able to stay ahead of their competition by leveraging AI capabilities to create an effortless customer experience. 89% of customers say getting a quick response to their questions is important when making decisions about which companies to buy from.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Voice biometrics is another high-tech solution that is going mainstream; a leading bank’s recent ad campaign publicizes that they know customers “by the sound of their voice.” IVAs are self-learning; their ’intelligence; is continually evolving based on data inputs from each new interaction. Omni-channel self-service.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 14, 2018

In the end, good customer experience is about lowering customer effort. One of the best ways to deliver an improved customer experience is to give support agents the tools they need to address customer issues in a timely manner. Self-service and ticket deflection. Agent enablement is a must.

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JivoChat

APRIL 5, 2021

” are examples of common queries that you can answer using automated chatbots that link to self-service resources. Offer self-service. Customers like solving their own problems. You need to equip customers with enough information to self-service their issues, and a knowledge base is an ideal place to start.

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VocalCom

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Convincing customers to use new apps is therefore a major challenge. Rather, it makes more sense to simplify the mobile experience in other ways that reduce customer effort. Be sure to present your secure methods clearly so that customers know exactly how you are taking steps to protect them. Enable self-service.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s very similar to the way traditional online self-service experiences begin. This might mean breaking down long, locked-away.pdf documents into smaller knowledge base articles; or moving useful troubleshooting information out of forums and in to a scalable knowledge management system. Alexa…?

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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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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

Offer self-service options What’s easier and more effortless for customers than being able to get the answers they need anytime? Nothing, of course, and that’s why self-service is quickly becoming more and more important for customer service.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This tenant-first philosophy applies to both the private and public housing sector and requires the creation of a new kind of digital tenant experience – everything from live chat and online knowledge resources to self-service portals. The Knowledge Gap. They’re flying blind.

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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Net promoter score (NPS) , Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) , Customer Effort Score (CES) , and ratings are some of the surveys that you can create and share with ease using Nicereply. Help Scout – center for knowledge base articles and help docs. Give them 24/7 customer service through AI-based chatbots.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 25, 2020

The basic thought process is that if customers are willing to refer you to their friends and family, they must have a favorable view of your customer experience. A high NPS is valuable because 83% of customers trust recommendations from the people that they know. Customer Effort Score (CES).

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 27, 2018

And it’s the companies that understand their customers best—even at scale—that will win market share and disrupt competitors. What is Customer Engagement? Important Customer Engagement Touchpoints. Strategies for Improved Customer Engagement. Driving Engagement with Self-Service Support Content.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 16, 2018

All of these benefits translate to a better customer experience. A sound self-service strategy – What do things look like from the agent’s point of view? Do they, for example, have in-the-flow access to self-service content? Good for the agent, good for the customer.

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Quiq

MARCH 16, 2022

This often includes bigger organizational initiatives like: Setting up a knowledge base: Information should be easily accessible. That way, when you don’t know the answer, you can pull it up in the knowledge base instead of transferring the call to someone who does know.

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