How To Use Digital Customer Service To Make Business Alliances
‘Tool’ is definitely one the most frequently used terms in Digital Customer Service. But it is overvalued. Actually it’s just part of the solution. In fact, even though tools are very important, they are not enough to deliver excellent and consistent customer experiences. The other missing ingredient? People soft skills, meaning those who daily interact…
How To Turn Customer Conversations Into Sales Opportunities
Our relationships are based on conversations and actions. Regardless as to whether they are personal or professional, we need to walk the talk if we want to build and nurture them. If we don’t, we may lose those relationships. When it comes to customer service, what we say, how we say it and what we…
From Bad to Great Conversations With Customers
The words that we use can make or break a conversation. In fact timing, context and tone of voice play a crucial role in driving sentiment. When it comes to customer service, digital channels are useful but not enough themselves to have smooth, effective communications. How does that actually happen? How can we leverage conversations…
5 Tactics For Extending Conversations With Customers
Communication is the key to building a long lasting relationship with your customers. After all, it’s fairly rare for a relationship to form between a brand and a consumer after a single moment of contact. Your job, as a content marketer, is to find ways to maintain contact by identifying opportunities to keep the conversation…
The New Ecommerce: Current Best Practices
From Tomorrow’s Ecommerce: Designing Tomorrow’s Ecom Website Today Haiku Deck The Haiku Deck above is about the New Ecommerce. We’ve written (or are writing) three blog posts to support trends we see in the new ecommerce including: I: Current Ecommerce Best Practices (you are reading this :). II: Rise of the Social & Mobile Web…