They don’t need to be on call for 30 mins or 1 hour to get issues resolved.
Customers can do multi-tasking while using all these channels. The few options which are left are Social media, Live chat, or SMS. Phone & emails are out because of some reasons mentioned above. So, what point I’m trying to make here? I’m indirectly talking about channels and ways customers can try to connect to the company if they face issues. The email could be another option, but spammers, marketers they have flooded our email box and to be honest, I hate opening my emails, there are tons of unread email every day. So, if you are a customer and you have some issue, what are some of the options that you would like to use to contact companies? Phone calls are great but the problem is its real-time communication and you need to be on call with a customer representative and cannot do multi-tasking. If I ask you a question, which technology gadget you cannot live with ? That’s your mobile phone and it is pretty much possible that you are reading this blog post right now on your mobile device. It’s not only about trillion-dollar companies, but also medium and small businesses, if they want to succeed in this comparative market, they need to make sure customer service is at the heart of their business.
Amazon, Apple, Google, etc all trillion-dollar companies, what do they have in common? Their obsession for customer service & keeping customers at the center of your business.