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Have you ever felt like an outsider when dealing with a different department? Maybe you feel slightly intimidated by the sales team, or don’t fully understand what the engineering team is doing. It seems like the accounting team doesn’t ever want to talk, but you can’t get the marketing team to shut up! You’re relieved…
Before the COVID-19 lockdowns, many companies were moving toward automation and using technology to improve customer service functions. During the stay-at-home orders and aftermath, companies accelerated their digital technology initiatives. McKinsey reports that some companies achieved seven years of progress in less than a year. Innovating the customer service experience at a rapid pace continues,…
ECommerce is growing like wildfire, offering exciting business insights via analytics and data. Sometimes it is easy to forget that there are people on the other end of the transaction. No matter how much information companies provide before the sale, most customers will still need help. 83% of consumers expressed a need for some help…
Telecom companies operate in one of the most competitive sectors of the marketplace. The industry has the fourth-highest churn rate, after cable, financial, and general retail, meaning that 21% of new Telecom customers will stay less than a year with the same Telecom provider. These scenarios represent both a big challenge and an opportunity. The…
Increasingly, small and medium businesses have a ready-to-go customer experience strategy. If this is the case with you as well – don’t worry. It’s still not too late to get in on CX and reap its benefits. It’s still a relatively new field but that’s not to say it’s an easy strategy to develop. In…
Have you ever decided to step up from capturing photos on your smartphone to a dedicated DSLR camera? I bet the model you want comes with all the features you need, but also a bunch more that you don’t understand. For small teams, live chat is a similar proposition. Is the investment of time and…
Many people ask me, “why have you stayed in the same organization for so long? What was it that made you stay? Did you ever look for other jobs or are you in it for life and will you be here until your retirement?” Well, I haven’t had a single thought about retirement! But staying…
In all the best practices and how-to’s, it’s easy for a small business to get lost with applying every customer service tip. You don’t have the budget of Amazon or the resources of Nordstrom. Forget a 50-person department dedicated to customer support – you don’t even have fifty employees, period. Does that mean tiny businesses…
At Kayako, we do our best to understand not just our customers’ needs, but their customers’ needs, as well. Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences. Customers hate putting in effort…
Great customer service is your competitive advantage. It matters! However, the magic does not happen without preparation. We are proud to share our best tips in this advanced guide to customer service training. Our guide is not simply a training manual or a list of call center tips and tricks. It will help you breed…
Last month I switched gyms. I didn’t have a major issue with the old one. The monthly cost was pretty average and I visited regularly, but I didn’t feel particularly valued. No one really checked in with me after my induction and their communication style was really impersonal. At the new place, I already feel…
All hands support has been a buzzword in the tech world for a few years now. Its premise—that everyone in the company from the CEO down to developers—spends time working as customer support agents, talking to customers, and answering questions. It’s a great practice in theory, and hypothetically will make everyone at a company more empathetic…