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Will You Add? - The ABC's of Online Customer Support
Immediately after dropping off breakfast for me and my brother, the waitress was suddenly overcome with sheer excitement. It was as if she had remembered something incredibly important, or maybe had just a few too many cups of coffee. She leaned in and exclaimed, “I’ll be right back with some ketchup for you!”The waitress scurried away, returning a few seconds later with a bottle of ketchup, which she proudly placed square in the middle of the table. With her hands on her apron, she admired her job well done.Puzzled, my brother and I looked at each other. Did anyone actually ask for ketchup? No. We hate
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what
If you run a non-profit group you must be very tactful and be sure to thank everyone who helped you with your fundraising event. Including any business, individuals or organization, which allowed you to use their property. This community goodwill is extremely important because we all know that public fundraising events never go perfectly. In fact there is always something that aggravates the volunteers or property owners, who take a little bit of a risk even allowing you to do something on their property.Below is a copy of a sample Thank You Letter to a property owner for allowing a non-profit group to have a car w
A-Add value
Don’t just do the bare minimum when it comes to providing customer support on your website. Go above and beyond to provide the customer with an exceptional experience. Remember, there are probably several sites out there right now trying to sell the same products or services that you are. Differentiate yourself by the high level of customer service you provide. Don’t simply answer questions. Provide solutions. Don’t just give a suggestion. Be an expert! If your customers or potential customers come to your site with a question or problem, help them as if you’re the foremost expert in your field. For example, let’s assume you run a website that sells bird houses. A potential customer visits your site and has a question about a specific model. How do you help them? First and foremost, I hope that you answer their question. But you have a great opportunity to go above and beyond. Ask the potential customer what types of birds she’s hoping to attract, where she is going to be putting the bird house, and where she’s located. With this information, as the world’s foremost expert in bird houses, you can recommend the right model in size, style, and material for her desired result. Now, you’re more than just a bird house salesman to this customer, you’re a bird house expert! You’ve added value through your online customer support.
B-Be There
A customer is on your site looking at your information and they have a big question. Where are you? The idea of ‘being there’ is twofold. First, it means making customer support channels easily accessible via your website. Regardless of what channels you use, you want them to be easily accessible from any page on your site. Either put your customer support channels on each page, or provide a clear and easy-to-find link to your support page from every page. As soon as your customer has a question, you don’t want them to have to look far to find a way to get in touch with you. Second, ‘being there’ means being available when your customers contact you. Be ready to answer the phone when they call, respond to all emails within a couple hours, or be prepared to handle incoming chats or support tickets. What good is customer support when a customer finds no one on the other end to assist them immediately? ‘Be there’ for your customers and you will be rewarded with better relationships and stronger loyalty.
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what o
Once you have decided that a home based business is your only option to be free from working for a boss, you have put your feet on the road to financial freedom. You will be free to do what you want when you want to and not have to answer to anyone but yourself.You will need to start planning what you want to do and how you are going to set about doing it. Make a precise list of what you will need to start up your business and approximately what it will cost you. You will have to set up a place at home from where you can conduct your business. Employ staff if you will need help with what you are going to do. Y
B-Be There
A customer is on your site looking at your information and they have a big question. Where are you? The idea of ‘being there’ is twofold. First, it means making customer support channels easily accessible via your website. Regardless of what channels you use, you want them to be easily accessible from any page on your site. Either put your customer support channels on each page, or provide a clear and easy-to-find link to your support page from every page. As soon as your customer has a question, you don’t want them to have to look far to find a way to get in touch with you. Second, ‘being there’ means being available when your customers contact you. Be ready to answer the phone when they call, respond to all emails within a couple hours, or be prepared to handle incoming chats or support tickets. What good is customer support when a customer finds no one on the other end to assist them immediately? ‘Be there’ for your customers and you will be rewarded with better relationships and stronger loyalty.
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what
When opening a dollar store there are many indicators of success. They range from bottom line profit to undesired employee turnover. However one of the most important is inventory turns.What are inventory turns anyway? This is simply a measure of the number of times that the full cost of the store’s inventory is sold. It is measured on an annual basis. For example, if after opening a dollar store the inventory for your store is maintained at $1,000,000, and annual sales are $8,000,000, then there are eight inventory turns per year for that store ($8,000,000 sales divided by $1,000,000 store inventory.).When
B-Be There
A customer is on your site looking at your information and they have a big question. Where are you? The idea of ‘being there’ is twofold. First, it means making customer support channels easily accessible via your website. Regardless of what channels you use, you want them to be easily accessible from any page on your site. Either put your customer support channels on each page, or provide a clear and easy-to-find link to your support page from every page. As soon as your customer has a question, you don’t want them to have to look far to find a way to get in touch with you. Second, ‘being there’ means being available when your customers contact you. Be ready to answer the phone when they call, respond to all emails within a couple hours, or be prepared to handle incoming chats or support tickets. What good is customer support when a customer finds no one on the other end to assist them immediately? ‘Be there’ for your customers and you will be rewarded with better relationships and stronger loyalty.
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what
Popularized by the Pipeline Profits promotion, Co-Registration has captured a lot of attention recently. This article will give you the facts about Co-Registration.Co-Registration is a way of buying targeted subscribers and leads to your newsletter/ezine from a 3rd party service in bulk.The leads are gathered by websites who are offering something in return from people opting in to that website's newsletter.It basically involves having your subscription offer listed alongside other publications' offer, so that when someone signs up to the other newsletters, he or she is given the option of signing up
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what
Branding has always evolved from the simple to the complex, just like everything else. Evolution begets progress. Now in this Information Revolution the battle of branding is always as they put it – innovating itself and stiff competition is the name of the game. For those who don’t know what "Branding" is, simply put, its giving your product or service a Name and a Logo, or a certain jive and feel so clients, customers, or future advocates of your product/service will remember whatever your selling or offering, in exchange for whatever earnings you might get from them.Just knowing that must be enough to change yo
C-Count the Cost
Let’s face it, your time and money are valuable. So, how do you provide great customer support on a budget? Come up with a plan. Determine what options are available to you, weigh the advantages vs. the costs, and implement your decisions. Here are some considerations regarding different online customer support options:
Phone support: Convenient for your customers, but potentially costly and time consuming for you. If you have an 800#, that is a large expense, and you can only talk to one person at a time.
Email support: Less effective for the customer than phone support. It is quick and easy to send their questions to you, but uncertainty over the length of time for responses is a concern. For you, email is one of the cheapest and easiest forms of support. You probably already have email, and you can respond to inquiries on your time.
Live chat software: Most effective channel of online customer support for the customer. Their questions can be answered immediately on the website by a real person. For you, the key is finding quality and affordable live chat software, and it is available. Also, live chat requires that you, or an employee, are available to handle incoming chat requests as much as possible.
Knowledge Database/FAQ/Self-Help: This can be a quick and easy way to get answers for your more savvy customers. However, it can also be burdensome for customers if they aren’t quickly and easily able to find answers to their questions. This is probably the easiest channel of customer support for you. After the initial time investment required to dump all of your information to the site, it is there and available for customers from then on.
These are just 4 of the channels for online customer support. You may also consider support tickets, forums, and others. As you can see, each channel has its advantages and disadvantages, both for you as the business owner, and for your customers. The best websites for online customer support usually offer a blend of several of these channels.
Providing great customer support on your website is not difficult, and it will have tremendous advantages for you. To provide excellent support for both you and your customers, simply remember the ABC’s of online customer support: Add value, Be there, and Count the cost.
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