Top 6 employee engagement strategies to make your team feel valued

Employee engagement

Employee engagement refers to the property of the relationship between an organization and its employees. Also, an “engaged employee” is the one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about his/her work. He takes positive action to further the organization’s reputation and interests. Employee engagement when implemented appropriately provides a number of benefits to the organization.

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Customer feedback: Why does it matter for your business?

Customer feedback

Customer feedback is basically the opinion of the customers regarding your products and services. Since customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal of any business, so, customer opinion is the most important of all and you need to make sure you listen to them at all times. Customer feedback matters a lot as it benefits your business in a number of ways:

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Customer service reps: Questions to ask in order to hire the best ones!

Hiring customer service agents

Customer service is an inevitable aspect of a company and it’s success. You may offer the best of goods and services to the customers but that’s not the only thing that matters. Despite the exceptional quality of your goods, customers may still have queries that if go unresolved may lead to customer dissatisfaction.

So, you need to ensure that the customer service you offer to your customers is satisfactory. For this, you further need to make sure that you hire the right candidates to handle your customers. Let’s have a look at the mandatory interview questions you need to ask while hiring customer service reps:

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Here’s how you enable a small customer support team to respond faster

Customer support reps

With the ever-increasing customer expectations, it becomes quite difficult for the small customer support teams to live up to customer’s expectations. With all the customers’ queries and complaints flooding in through different channels, providing timely responses becomes a daunting task. However, even the smaller teams can provide the expected level of service using the following strategies:

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Things every customer service representative needs to know

Customer service representatives

Working at a customer service center is quite a daunting task. You have to deal with a variety of customers and situations may not always be in your favor. The only solution is to handle every situation gracefully. There are certain things that a customer service representative needs to know before everything else. Let’s see what they are:

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Multichannel marketing: Know how it benefits your business

Multichannel marketing

Multichannel marketing refers to the process of blending distribution and promotional channels for the purpose of marketing. Distribution channels involved in this type of marketing may range from a retail storefront to a website. An effective multichannel marketing is supported by good supply chain management systems such that the details and prices of goods on offer are consistent across the different channels. It is also supported by detailed analysis of the return on investment from each different channel, measured in terms of customer response and conversion of sales. It benefits a business in a number of ways:

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Live chat for conversion: Here’s how it boosts your business’s success

Live chat boosts conversion rates

So far we have seen that live chat benefits a business in a number of ways. It can help reduce the bounce rates and site abandonment rate, boost sales and build strong customer relationships. There’s one more benefit of using live chat on your website. Wondering what it is? Well, live chat if used appropriately can increase your business’s conversion rates. Want to know how? Read on.

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Brand building: Top 4 tools to accomplish your goal successfully

Brand building

As mentioned earlier, brand building refers to the process of generating awareness, establishing and promoting company using strategies and tactics. It is basically the visual voice of your company that differentiates you from your competitors and convinces people as to why they should choose you. You need an efficacious visual representation of your company that is capable of conveying the branding of your company. For this, you need to opt for an exceptional brand building platform. Let’s have a look at the best ones:

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Top 5 hacks for an effective brand building process

Brand building

Brand building refers to boosting a brand’s equity directly through advertising campaigns and indirectly through promotions such as event sponsorship. In order to build your brand effectively, you need to employ an exceptional brand building process. Now, what all does an effective brand building process do? Well, It does a lot! For instance, it:

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Top 6 problems that may drive the online shoppers away

online shoppers

This is an era of digitization. You can find everything from a newspaper to books to apparels online. There is no need to hop stores to purchase something that you require. You just need to browse and click and that’s it! Though online shoppers experience convenience with the help of online shopping, there are a number of difficulties they have to face:

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Top 5 lead generation strategies for a highly successful business

Lead generation

Lead generation refers to the marketing process of stimulating and capturing interest in a product or service for the purpose of developing sales pipeline. It is very important to have qualified leads so as to have qualified leads.

Lead generation is all about brand awareness, pulling down leads and making sales. Therefore, employing the best lead generation strategies can prove to be beneficial for any business in the long run. Here we have piled up the best lead generation strategies that you can leverage to boost your lead generation:

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Top 5 tips to improve your customer service performance

Customer service performance

The quality of customer service you provide to your customers plays a vital role in the success of your business irrespective of its size. Therefore, almost all companies try to improve their customer service performance by employing the best strategies. Also, a productive support team will be consistent at all times. Here are the best strategies employed by the most successful businesses in order to maximize their performance in customer service:

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Customer retention: Top 5 tips to keep your customers interested in you

Customer retention

Customer retention basically means customers of the product or business tend to return to, continue to buy or in some other way not defect to another product or business, or to non-use entirely. Selling organizations fear customer defections and hence try to minimize them by employing effective strategies to retain the customers.

Researchers have proved that acquiring new customers cost more than retaining the existing ones. Moreover, customer retention is directly proportional to profitability. So, companies need to implement certain customer retention strategies so as to grow their business. Here are the best strategies to curb customer defection and develop long-term relationships:

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Training your live chat agents: Essentials elements of the training process

Training live chat agents

What if I ask you how’ll you train your live chat agents?

Your response would probably include statements like:

  • Make them familiar with the live chat platform they’ll be working on.
  • Educate them about the products and services that your business deals in.
  • Provide them an access to all that they require for resolving the customers’ queries (knowledge base, canned messages etc.)

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Live Chat for building relationship with customers

Live Chat for enhancing relationship with customers

“Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.”- Paul J. Meyer

Personally and professionally, communication is a powerful medium that can dictate success or failure. Companies know that customer relationship is vital and these relationships can be easily maintained by Live Chat.

63% of customers said they were more likely to return to a website that offers live chat as opposed to one that doesn’t.

77% of customers won’t make a purchase if there’s no live chat support.

Live chat works so well at keeping customers happy because it brings together the best aspects of digital service and traditional service.

LIVE CHAT- MARRIAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND PEOPLE:

You get the efficiency of digital interactions and the warm, personal interactions of real people. Customers get quick help, but they don’t have the anguish of talking to a robot. That’s the kind of marriage that you know will go the distance — as long as you use them in the right balance. To make proper use of digital efficiency, use proactive live chat to interact with customers as soon as they come looking for help or even before they realize they need it. The proactive invites are easy to set up in most live chat software and allow you to personalize that first programmed invite to the customer’s specific situation. Their great advantage is the ability to cut down the time it takes for a valued customer, that has encountered a problem, to get a resolution that will keep them happy. You need your live chat agents to be chatty and personable. Live chat is so great at keeping customers happy (and maintaining those important relationships) because of the marriage between digital and people. Don’t fail at offering a human touch.

ACCURACY AS WELL AS SPEED:

The most important element of any customer service channel IS providing useful answers to customer questions. This should be the primary requirement of any channel. Customers shouldn’t have to jump through hoops or do any extra work just to get your help or a useful solution to their problem. Keep customers happy and that relationship strong with the first contact problem resolution. Chat does come with the advantage of being able to rewrite before you hit send (so you can perfect your response).

CUSTOMER OPENNESS- YOUR ADVANTAGE:

Loyal customers are pretty responsive. Unlike customers who have only just started buying from you, they are more than likely to speak up when they aren’t happy. If an unhappy customer comes to chat, solve their problem, but then use their openness to your advantage. In fact, customers (old and new) are usually far more open on live chat compared to other customer service channels. It’s a little informal, and although they are speaking to someone directly, the sense of anonymity lets them tell you the truth. So… get encouraging customers to open up. Ask them for details on their experiences. There could be some real gems in their responses that could be used to tweak your product or service to make loyal customers even happier and to attract more new customers. Give your live chat agents a clear channel for recording their feedback.

KEEP CUSTOMERS HAPPY:

Not surprising, the best method for maintaining relationships with customers is keeping them happy. If you’re using live chat (or considering using live chat), then you have a secret weapon at your disposal. Keeping customers happy means providing quick, friendly, and accurate responses — something that live chat happens to do fantastically. To maintain that loyalty, customers have with you, you’ve got to make sure they still love the products and services you provide. Enter the openness of customers on live chat and you put what they say into action.

Want to build relationships faster, grow your customer base and increase revenue? Then talk more, talk more often and make these conversations as productive as possible. That is the essence of chat and the reason why chat is resulting in such success.

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GDPR : All you need to know about the big data privacy revolution!

GDPR

What exactly is GDPR?

GDPR is a solution to customers’ woes!

The entire world is familiar and “scared” after the latest cases of data breaches.

Well, in today’s era, data breaches are real. Some people with malicious intent steal your data and then eventually mishandle it.

GDPR is one such legal framework, introduced by the European Commission to eliminate such mishaps. This data privacy revolution sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU).

When does GDPR come into force and whom does it apply to? 

Though the European Commission came up with a plan to protect valuable data so as to make Europe ‘fit for the digital age’. However, the regulation was enforced after six long years. Thereafter, it has finally come into force today, i.e. 25th May 2018.

Coming to the application of GDPR, it applies to all the organizations operating within the European Union, no matter what scale or size. The regulation further applies to the businesses outside EU which offer goods or services to customers or businesses in the EU.

GDPR compliance: 

As per the terms of GDPR, the organizations have to ensure the following things without failing:

  • The personal data (name, address, photos, and IP address) should be gathered legally and under strict conditions.
  • The data is protected from misuse and exploitation.

In case an organization fails at doing so, it will have to face certain penalties. They may have to pay fines up to €20 million or 4% of their global annual sales, whichever is bigger.

The ultimate warning:

If an organization has always abided by the respective data protection rules, GDPR won’t be much of an issue. However, for the businesses that have taken data privacy lightly all these years, most importantly the small-scale businesses that don’t even realize they are impacted, GDPR is going to be a real trouble.

GDPR, in no way, doesn’t stop the organizations from serving their customers and collecting their data. However, the businesses need to ensure that they are collecting and storing this valuable customer data on a lawful basis. They further have to ensure that they respect the wishes of people who want to have their data deleted.

The regulation mainly aims at boosting the rights of individuals and enable them to control their data. So, the organizations that fail at providing the desired proofs of proper handling of sensitive data, they are sure to face penalties within 72 hours of the data breach.

Does your organization take good care of its customers’ data?