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The Problem with Self Service

Beyond Philosophy

People like the convenience of self-service. More and more of your Customers believe access to self-service options is essential to their relationship with your business. Knowing this, it is critical that you plan your self-service options well. Clearly, more Customers want self-service options.

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The 7 components of superior self-service systems

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 The 7 components of superior self-service systems. This has a major impact on the customer experience – consumers increasingly choose companies that value their time and minimize the effort they need to put in when making a purchase or finding out information. Published on: June 15, 2016.

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Improving Your E-Commerce Customer Service to Meet Today’s Consumer Expectations

Joe Rawlinson

Mobile technology has been changing consumer expectations for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers, making it more challenging to deliver satisfactory customer service. The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 percent are delivering average service and 39.6

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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

Lately, there has been a fair amount of productive dialogue as to whether service and experience are the same thing, i.e. a rose by any other name. It’s pretty well understood that service is a component of overall experiential value delivery. After this positive result, 31% of consumers said they purchased more from the retailer.

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Is Your Customer Service Department a “Factory of Sadness”?

Customer Bliss

Consumers today prefer to do things on their own – and, most importantly, according to their own timeframe. This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. 81 percent of customers today will use self-service channels first before reaching out to a company Click To Tweet. Guest post by Matt Dixon.

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How to Manage (and Reduce) Call Center Call Volume

Stella Connect

The problem is, keeping up with call volume is getting harder these days, with the call center under pressure due to the pandemic upending both the nature of work and how consumers interact with brands. 2: Invest in self-service options. Take the case of travel giant Expedia.

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Self to Assisted Customer Service: Are You Passing or Dropping the Baton?

Tricia Morris

For the first time in the history of Forrester Research’s North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life Cycle Survey , consumers now say they are using self-service FAQ pages on a company’s website for customer service more often than speaking with a live agent on the phone. Employee Engagement.