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

Joe Rawlinson

But 53 percent of customers say they want a totally personalized experience, which they feel is a fair exchange for the personal data they provide while shopping online, a Bazaarvoice survey found. Adding self-service options such as an online knowledge database can boost your customers’ satisfaction with their online experience.

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Data Snapshot: Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2015

Experience Matters

Here’s the data snapshot description: In the first quarter of 2015, Temkin Group surveyed 207 respondents, each from a company with $500 million or more in annual revenues, about their customer experience efforts over the past year and their plans for 2015 and beyond.

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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. And that’s terrific, except that 35.5%

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What Is a Knowledge Base and Why Is It Useful?

Comm100

As companies everywhere see growing customer demand for self-service functionality in addition to their core service or support channels, knowledge bases play a large part in helping organizations to meet this need. Forrester has found that FAQ page use is on the rise, increasing from 67% to 76% between 2012 and 2014.

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6 Ways Communities Complement Customer Service

Tricia Morris

In today’s world, customer service is changing rapidly with greater expectations for reduced customer effort and brand transparency, as well as increasing preferences for digital customer experiences including online self-service. Here are six ways that communities can complement customer service: 1.

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5 Top Customer Service Takeaways from CRMUG Summit

Tricia Morris

Of the executives interviewed in the survey, 34% said their CRM spending will be sales related, 31% will be service related, and 19% will be marketing related, with 11% saying other. Knowledge is Power in Service and Support. These findings correspond with another recent survey from CEB that says 57.7%