When an aggrieved customer calls you – he wants to speak to you NOW. What’s more? He wants you to solve his problem NOWWW. So, how do you ensure that every single customer calling you, puts down the phone with a smile – after you’ve solved his query and defused his problem? I’m glad you asked – you see a great metric to use is “The Average Call Handling Time”. The average call handle time…
When you think about a customer service team, the first image could be of a noisy room with busy support agents talking and resolving queries of customers on the phone. However the high call wait times, incessant background chatter can get your customers irate sometimes. Moreover, your customer support can even come across as unprepared to manage the large volume of interactions. A chat software is an additional means to support your customers and reduce…
For an e-commerce business, a mobile app is a short-cut to both customers’ wish list and heart. Today, most of the millennials are familiar with mobile apps for making online purchases. But mobile app purchases are inherently different from web purchases. For this, let’s understand by considering the case of a typical millennial e-commerce customer. For now, we’ll name him Jerod. He’s cozy with making his online purchases through his mobile app. Jerod has ordered…
The work-life balance has almost become one of the most fervently contested aspects of a service center. But let’s think about something more important – ‘is the customer support rep able to find the right workload balance within their jobs?’ This question becomes especially critical for e-commerce industry where customer support can ‘make-or-break’ the buying experience for a customer. Normally, a typical e-commerce customer support personnel is in a state of constant overwhelm due to…
So, we have all come across the term ‘GDPR’ in annual company meetings or in one of those scary boardroom sessions where the momentum just bounces off your head! The speaker goes on about how data protection rules apply to a company and the impact it leaves on customer management- but to many of us, all this sounds nothing but gibberish. So, what is ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ all about? After all, we don’t want…
On asking about the biggest challenge to some small business owners, their response was quite simple. Attracting new customers. Now we all know that having new customers is surely a win-win, but many businesses often tend to forget about an important and potentially a bigger win- maintaining the customers you already have. Customer churn In other words, the loss of customers surely has the capacity to cut your revenues into the half, only if you…
At Kapture CRM, we are always cooking up something new that our customers will savor. This section of our blog gives you a peek into our latest delicacies aka feature updates for customer success and the smell of excitement wafting through our engineering corridors. Our brand new set of features helps your support team get better at supporting their customers, cut-back on workload and become smarter at managing daily operations. Here’s an overview of our…
There’s much noise in the marketing world today about how cold calling is dead. While cold calling is frequently considered an out-of-date practice, there’s a reason you missed the funeral. Cold calling is just as alive and well as it always was, but with a few twists. Let’s be honest with ourselves. We aren’t in the 90’s. You can’t just pick up the phone and call the business down the street and expect to work…
How does our normal day look like? Commute to the office, punch-in late and tell everybody you were stuck in traffic – Enroute to stress. Then comes your boss and asks about that mind-blowing pitch you had to make which didn’t happen because you couldn’t understand the brief. Now you get the deadline which equals to more stress. Working efficiently in office is a harder task in itself and it becomes more frustrating when our…
Please hold, your call is important to us….If you had to put me on hold then why did you even give your number in the “Contact Us” section? This is literally the thought of 49% of the people who prefer calling a service over chat. Not to forget the mind-numbing hold music and the repetition of the same hold line. According to a survey, 51% of consumers are in the habit of using live chat…
