Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

As a growing customer service team, consistently delivering moments of WOW while maintaining a positive culture along the way is just one of the challenges you’re likely to face. That’s alongside the growing pains of dealing with waves of new people joining the company, lots of change and unknowns, new processes and guidelines, dealing with legacy customers and agents who are used to a different style of support… the list goes on.

Let’s face it – it’s easy for anxiety and boredom to creep into any job, including customer support. Listening to customers’ rants, complaints, and arguments incessantly can be a challenging exercise. Not to mention the equally daunting and exhausting task of following-up and responding to one angry customer after another. Before you know, your support agents are burning-out like dry wood struck by lightning in the summer grasslands of Australia.

It’s been business as usual here at the Freshworks Marketplace – we now have over 800 apps on our unified marketplace. As we continue to steadily add apps to the Marketplace, here’s a quick look at some of our latest additions!

Imagine this: meeting a new acquaintance who raves about meeting you, but never follows up on making plans, and forgets your name when they bump into you. Now imagine another new acquaintance, this time who remembers your name, is still in contact with you months later, and sends you interesting resources that make your life better. Who would you prefer?

If you’ve worked in customer experience for long, you probably know that change is the only constant in retail. And that’s what keeps our job exciting, right? As customer preferences continually evolve, it’s our responsibility to continue raising the bar and meet their heightened expectations. But surprisingly, most UK retailers aren’t doing that.

Data mining, unfortunately, has a very scary reputation. For example, social media companies have been able to use people’s social media activity to predict “political preference, personality score, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, intelligence, along with things like how much you trust the people you know, and how strong those relationships are.”

Some customers just want to be left alone. For them, never having to talk to the company or have any form of interaction with them, is the best possible experience. Forcing these customers to engage, is the very opposite of providing a good experience. Yet, companies have to keep working towards increasing customer engagement. So how do customer experience and customer engagement fit together? Are they the same thing? Turns out, they aren’t – but they do work together in perfect harmony.

As a support professional, writing is core to the job. For many organizations, it’s the only way we communicate and connect with our users on a 1-on-1 basis.

India is known for a lot of things. You don’t need to have been to conjure up the sounds of the hustle and bustle, the smell of the food markets, the colours. Our unique culture and traditions have shaped the country into the global powerhouse that it is today. They inspire us to do and be better. By tapping into the world’s largest democracy, I believe we can change the world with something we call ‘Indian Democratic Design’.

Whether it’s answering a ticket, responding to live chats, picking up the phone, writing a knowledge base article, or telling customers about a new feature… communicating is what support teams do. We live and breath communication, and the stronger we communicate, the better we do our job. A big part of communication in customer support is knowing when and how to follow-up with customers.