Category: Knowledgebase
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For When You Have to Tell a Customer “No”, Follow These Tips
For those of us who work in the customer experience arena, having to tell a customer “no” can be quite disheartening. We go out of our way to please them, and ensure they receive satisfactory service, and telling them the dreaded “no” goes against all that. But sometimes we have to say it—the trick is…
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Want to Deliver Really Good Customer Service? Practice Empathy
We hear the word empathy a lot in today’s culture, in a variety of fields and disciplines. But what is it exactly? Dictionary.com, an online reference site, defines empathy as “the intellectual identification with the thoughts and feelings of others.” With this definition in mind, it’s easy to see why having empathy is absolutely important…
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Active Listening is Integral to An Amazing Customer Experience
You probably know that listening is an important component of delivering excellent customer service. After all, how can you help a customer when you don’t know what they’re saying? Sometimes, though, it’s not enough to simply “listen,” and instead you must engage in what is called “active listening.” This is when you are “actively” listening…
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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Word of Mouth on Your Business
When it comes to publicity, word of mouth is still a powerful factor to be considered. We’ve all heard the adage that a bad customer service experience will result in word of mouth far more than a positive one. Yet the truth is that a good customer experience will indeed generate good word of mouth.…
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Here are More Hints for an Awesome Self Support Knowledge Base
Through a series of posts, we’ve been looking at the concept of customer self support, and how companies are using it more and more to handle routine customer experience issues, such as troubleshooting. In the last post, we looked at how knowledge bases, or articles that address common support issues, are a big part of…
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Making The Most Of Your Company’s Social Media Content
Scott Levy from Tweet Naked (Facebook) gives the information entrepreneurs need to work with as a social media strategy to improve their brand and business. By using social media pages, there are 1,000 ways people can engage in question asking, offering daily tips or posting quotes and fun facts to help brands grow (social CRM).…
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Using a Knowledge Base As Part of A Customer Self-Support System
In a previous post, we talked about the rapid rise of customer self-support systems in helping to manage the customer experience. The post provided a general overview of the concept, as well as interesting statistic: that over half of customers will use a self-support system. Clearly, this is a grand opportunity for your business, so…
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Write The Best Knowledge Base For Your Customers
There are a variety of customer service tools that still work. Sometimes you do not need a call center to have a successful customer service. Instead of eagerly waiting for customers to call, you can still do without the office by letting customers have their way. Yonyx enables organizations to create decision tree driven interactive…
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The Importance of Creativity in Delivering Customer Service
We’ve been looking at a variety of skills needed to deliver an exceptional customer service experience, such as empathy, active listening, and being confident. Yet there’s another customer service skill that can really come in handy when dealing with customer issues: creativity. Let’s take a look at why this skill is extremely important. When handling…
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The Importance of Being A Good Listener
There are a lot of skills needed to provide a great customer experience: communication skills, empathy and so on. It also goes without saying that good listening skills can help provide excellent customer service. After all, you will need to be able to figure out the customer’s problem, ask appropriate questions, and troubleshoot the problem—all…