Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Voice of the Customer (VoC): Definition, Techniques, Tools [+7 Best Practices]

We all realize that customer feedback is a goldmine of insights. But it’s easy to lose track of what your customers expect, want, and need from your business. That’s why you need a structured and organized feedback management system, a.k.a, a Voice of the Customer(VoC) program that taps into the voice of every customer segment to gain business value. If you’re looking for more reasons, techniques, and best practices to kickstart a VoC program, then we’ve got you covered.

How to Say No to Customers: A 5 Step Guide

Support reps or business owners may find themselves in a fix when they have to say no to customers. Chances are that your customer may have asked for a feature you don’t offer or requested for an unreasonable service, shared concern about a company policy, or given unsatisfactory feedback for your product. Saying no to a customer should count as an essential skill for a customer support representative. But how do you say no to customers in a positive way?

The Most Common Mistakes Made By Service Desk Managers

The role of the IT service desk manager is not an easy job. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to manage an IT service desk efficiently. With rapidly evolving technology and accelerated product launches, service managers have to be constantly on their feet and with their eyes trained on the horizon to ensure seamless IT delivery to their clients. Modern service desk solutions and frameworks have helped considerably. Many tasks can be automated and delegated more efficiently.

The Audacity to Achieve ROI in 3 Steps With Internal Comms

People understand the purpose and perhaps the strategy in creating internal comms. However, can you describe how to achieve a return on investment (ROI)? And in three steps? That was the core of the conversation between Simpplr’s Amanda Berry, Corporate Brand & Communications Manager and Head of Internal Communications, and Jason Anthoine, Managing Founder of Audacity, in the ninth Cohesion Podcast.

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3 ways to set your productive intentions right for the year!

We all want to set new goals and do our best to maintain them. With the new year having set in, there comes a sort of renaissance tinge to being productive. Everyone wants to revamp themselves in the new year—the way they behave, the way they live their lives, and the way they go about doing their daily activities.

A Guide to Empathy in Customer Service

What is the one skill that everybody in customer support must have? Ask this to anybody who’s been in customer service for a while and ‘empathy’ would be high up on the list. We’ve put together a short guide on the importance of empathy in customer service and tips to empathize with customers better. You can use the following links to navigate through the blog. – Why is empathy important in customer service?

Simpplr on Simpplr: How we redesigned our own Simpplr instance to create a modern employee experience

In this two-part article series, I explain how in my role as a Corporate Brand and Communications Manager at Simpplr used our intranet product to assess our company needs, create a plan to improve organizational performance, and implement our strategies for the benefit of our employees, leadership, and the success of our business. I work at an industry-leading tech company.

New year, new integrations

Import2 (Sell) is a 1-click data migration software that helps you to move all historical data from your legacy software into Zendesk Sell. All your contacts, companies, opportunities, tasks, notes, calls, meetings, emails and attachments from your existing CRM will be transferred automatically. Import2 replaces CSV import tools as a faster and simpler solution for your data migration needs.

8 Excellent Tools for Todoist Time Tracking (Features, Pricing)

Todoist is a task management tool suitable for individuals and small businesses. This task manager helps teams easily manage their tasks with features like recurring due dates, priority levels, reminders, and more. Unfortunately, Todoist doesn’t support native time tracking. So, how do you perform Todoist time tracking? Simple! Through third-party app integration.

Is Microsoft's Teams Productivity Tracker Legit?

In November 2020, Microsoft launched a productivity app named Microsoft Productivity Score to measure the productivity of your co-located as well as remote team. This Microsoft Teams productivity tracker helps your company break down how much time your employees are spending on all Office 365 tools. In this article, we’ll cover what Microsoft Teams productivity tracker is and the eight parameters it uses to measure your company’s Productivity Score.