Successful brands such as Amazon, Disney, and Apple have one thing in common – they are known for fast and delightful customer service.  There is no doubt that customer service has become the most important brand differentiator. It brings repeat sales, boosts retention, and contributes to your bottom line. When organizations improve their customer service...

Entrepreneurs, customer success managers, and customer service professionals have a big question facing them – How to reduce customer complaints? Receiving messages from your customers is really an amazing thing. However, the reason matters. Are you getting more complaints than compliments? Has your team succumbed to an endless list of customer complaints?  No matter how...

The recipe to bake awesome customer service is indeed very simple – be fast, accurate, and consistent with your responses. But why are businesses unable to cook what they had promised? What ingredient are they missing?  The missing ingredient can be automation technology. Even a simple feature such as automated ticket routing can help you...

SaaS or software as a service is a profitable business model. You create an awesome product, spend a little on marketing, acquire new users, and voila, profits roll in. But when users are stuck somewhere, how do you offer awesome SaaS customer support?  Due to the laser-sharp focus on development and sales, SaaS customer support...

Imagine your employees coming to work each day full of purpose and with a strong belief in your company’s values. They strongly relate to the good that your brand brings to the world and think they have found the most valuable thing – “meaning in life”.  Sounds like a Disney movie, right? Well, it can...

Groove is a simple shared inbox tool that allows support agents to organize, prioritize and solve customer requests.  But can we consider it a full-fledged help desk system?  Not really! My personal experience with the tool revealed numerous challenges — limited inboxes, unresponsive customer support, and the absence of the chatbot feature.  Allow me to...

Do you wonder why some customers stick with you for years, while others leave you midway? Well, customers are giving you hints all along. In fact, 56% of consumers around the globe believe that companies need to take necessary action on the feedback provided by them.  Your customers have a lot to say. The only...

Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, all these departments are known for illustrating the user journey using a funnel. But what about customer service?  For businesses, it’s time to rethink the customer support funnel. While no two companies are created in exactly the same mold, they can all use a support funnel to guide their customers to...

Right from daily-use office printers to complicated IT servers — modern organizations are heavily dependent on IT services.  No wonder a majority of businesses are adopting the best ITSM tools to build and maintain a strong IT ecosystem, enhance employee productivity, reduce IT risks, and improve the end-user experience.  But here comes a challenge.  A...