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A Customer Support Photo is Worth a Thousand Words

This is part two of a three-part content series between Freshworks and Textline. You can read part one: “9 reasons your customers want to be able to text support” here. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a photo can greatly enhance any text message you’re trying to send. That includes messages you send in a customer support role to help customers solve a problem or those texts your customers send you.

6 CX Trends That Will Dominate Retail in 2021

2020 taught us that predicting the future can be a risky business. But that’s not stopping people from looking into the crystal ball. In fact, the search term “2021 retail trends” on Google yields a measly 416 million results. Given this, you might wonder why we’re doing this. For starters, we’ll limit the scope of this blog to customer experience in retail and e-commerce.

The Pivot to Chat: How Blue Nile Doubled Their Chat Revenue in 2020

Jewelry is meant for special occasions, and often customers want to see and feel the product before making that special purchase. Major players in the jewelry market like Tiffany’s and Cartier started out with purely physical retail stores, before eventually incorporating online identities. That’s why Blue Nile, one of the first companies in the jewelry space to establish an online-first business, has had to work harder than most in making their business a success.

Putting technology at the heart of public services to improve the citizen experience

Local councils in the UK public sector are under increasing pressure to deliver seamless, easy-to-use services, which are accessible to a diverse demographic, as cost effectively as possible. Councils in England will face an overall funding gap of £6.5 billion by 2025, even before COVID-19 is factored in. Coupled with this deficit, local councils are expected to deliver public services that emulate the end-user experience constituents receive from private businesses.

How an ISP uses OneDesk to manage its workflows

Any company that provides a service has a number of routine workflows and procedures that they utilize to support their customers. An internet service provider (ISP) is no exception—everything from setup to maintenance to billing can be encapsulated as a workflow that is refined over time in order to provide the best experience for the customer. While these workflows are being improved and iterated on, it can be challenging to apply the workflows to multiple customers without a proper setup.