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Abilities and limitations of Chatbots

These days, chatbots are automating customer service around the world. Bots are on the customer service front lines more often than before. These bots vary from simple scripted bots answering FAQs to AI-backed bots programmed to make product recommendations. Even so, the humans engineering these bots and writing their scripts are the ones who hold the keys to customer service. Here are three things to help understand bot abilities and their limitations. Humanlike AI is a world away When AI first came out in the mid 1950s, the computer science community had high hopes for its evolution. AI was initially...

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5 mandatory features of the effective ticketing system

There are many different ticketing systems available to choose from. Not all of these ticketing systems are equally good, but others have better features than others. There are a handful of features to look for when choosing the right solution for your business. In this article we are introducing 5 mandatory features that every great ticketing systems should have. 1 . Everything at a glance According Forrester study 42% of service agents are unable to efficiently resolve customer issues due to disconnected systems, out of date user interfaces, and multiple applications. The main screen of a ticketing system is...

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How to make your help center stand out

It is well known that investing in self-service can help improve a company’s customer experience. According to Zendesk, tickets with links to knowledge articles have a 23% lower resolution time, 20% fewer reopens, and an average CSAT rating of 2%. Here are some shared tips to ensure your knowledge base content meets the need of your customer Start with the top five articles in your help center According to Zendesk, the top five articles of your help center account for about 40% of all daily views. To create an effective help center, you should start with answering the most...

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How ticketing system works

Almost all of us have been using ticketing system at least couple times. You often don’t even know yourself when you are using ticketing system. For example, if you send email to some company, they are probably going to handle your mail in their ticketing system. It is same think in every channel. It is much more efficient to collect all the customers issues to one place than handle every channel separate. If ticketing system is built example around email there is really no way to make sure that tickets are read by the right person or to track...

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Benefits of integrating Zendesk with CRM software

Zendesk offers many benefits that traditional CRM help desk softwares don’t have. Traditional CRM help desk functionality can provide good financial returns for a company. However, Zendesk can provide even better overall business benefits, because it’s functionality goes beyond traditional CRM help desks. There are many scenarios in which the relational database and and integration capabilities of a CRM system are important. Using two different products and connecting them together can be puzzling. Here are six points that highlight why you should deploy both Zendesk and CRM. 1. Subscription cost Especially for a smaller organisation with a small support...

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Zendesk – The Leader in Help Desk Software

What is help desk software No matter if you call it help desk, service desk, or support desk software, all of them mean the same thing. Help desk software is a computer software that enables companies to resolve customer concerns efficiently by managing tickets from receipt to resolution. This type of software also empowers agents with a wide range of support and collaborative tools. Typically, this software automates important parts of customer service like ticket management, reporting & optimization and feedback. There are number of service and support solutions available that offer rich and robust functionality for optimizing the...

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Why live chat benefits everyone

These days customers want to find answers online, until they feel the need to talk to a human. They expect an answer that is not just right, but lighting-fast. This is where live chat comes into play. It is a very useful tool meeting the needs of a demanding and connected customer. Chat is the best, because it is personal and digital at the same time. This means real-time human interaction on a computer or a mobile device. No need to speak on the phone out loud about your problems and no long hold periods. It’s easy to see...

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5 Tips for internal help desk management

Many people think that the closer the help desk is the slower the support seems. However, response times relation to distance isn’t always consistent. Internal support may not be well documented or communicated, so it may seem unclear or undefined. This can cause employees receiving support to have no expectations at all or too many expectations. Either way, it can be difficult to know what expectations they will have. When you don’t know what your user expectations are, you will have no idea how to meet them. When this happens, help desk personnel will often just go about their...

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Utilizing customer empathy in CRM processes

Companies like Uber and Square are innovative digital companies, that utilize a secret weapon in their industry – empathy. Companies like this are often called digital disrupters. They are pushed to the customer forefront by having empathy for customers dealing with bad systems and processes. Especially in CRM processes, a little bit of empathy can go a long way. According to a public report by Gartner in 2016, through 2020, businesses that reflect empathy towards their customer in some way when deploying their CRM technology, are three times more likely to fend off a digital disrupter. This requires full...

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