4 Keys to delivering the best digital customer service.
Digital customer service, which includes providing support through channels like email, chat, SMS and mobile apps, has given consumers a host of convenient and effective options for how they interact with businesses. These choices include both agent-assisted and self-service methods with response times ranging from immediate to up to a day or more. This means customers can choose the channel that best matches the complexity and urgency of their issue, which is a very empowering scenario.
Consumers are increasingly embracing digital support and many organizations are responding by offering the best digital customer service they possibly can. But is it enough? Shifting preferences and evolving technology make it hard for businesses to keep up. Will Generation Z and Millennials be fully satisfied with only optimized email and chat service? Our research shows they're ready for more options.
The writing is on the wall - digital customer service is the future, and the future is now.
Here are 4 keys to implementing the best digital customer service.
1. Embrace second wave digital channels
Fear not social messaging! Don't shy away from virtual assistants! Many of your customers use these in their daily lives, so why not meet them where they are? First generation digital channels, like chat and email, have proven the appeal and effectiveness of digital. Now it's time to explore and embrace the emerging digital channels.
2. Provide your agents with an integrated inbox
If you want your agents to be able to provide the best digital customer service, empower them by giving them the right tools. An integrated inbox combines contacts from all digital channels, eliminating the need for multi-skilled agents to access multiple systems. Plus, automatic prioritization directs them to the highest priority contacts to focus on.
3. Offer an omnichannel experience
With the addition of more channels, it becomes increasingly important to allow customers to move seamlessly across them. So, the best digital customer service includes an omnichannel experience. If a customer starts off in a Facebook Messenger chat and switches to a phone call, no problem! The phone agent will be able to access the Messenger transcript. Not having to start from scratch will result in a happy customer.
4. Holistically manage it
Providing the very best digital customer service often means transforming your contact center. Agents have to be trained and managed differently, and they need new transactional and performance monitoring tools. Supervisors need to be able to lead multi-skilled digital teams. And workforce managers need to be able to incorporate digital volumes into forecasting and scheduling efforts.
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These ten ideas will improve your Digital CX by providing an effortless experience that meets your customers’ expectations.
With NICE CXone, you can provide the best digital customer service to your customers.
NICE CXone is the market leader in providing customers the cloud contact center software they need to deliver consistently exceptional customer experiences. Our software solution, CXone, includes omnichannel routing, workforce management, and a unified agent desktop, all designed to provide your customers with a seamless omnichannel experience. Find out how CXone can help you deliver the best digital customer service.
Your customers are trying to reach you for service on digital channels – even if you’re not there yet. How many SMS text messages go to your call center phone number with no response? Who’s trying to find you on Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp and not finding you? Now with CXone it is easy to provide digital-first omnichannel service in all the channels your customers expect.
Personalized digital interactions: deliver native experiences in each of 30+ messaging channels, such as rich media, emojis, and other collaboration tools.
Simple to Activate: pre-integrated channels make it easy to offer to customers and agents.
Easy to Say “Yes”: simple packaging removes barriers to offering all channels to customers and agents.
Empowered agents
CXone empowers all your agents to deliver a true digital-first omnichannel customer experience by simultaneously combining all customer interactions in one intelligent inbox across multiple digital channels and voice for agents to select ("pull"), while dynamically prioritizing the most time-sensitive or real-time interactions according to service levels ("push"). All delivered in a single application – complete with full customer context, journey history, and sentiment.
Single Interface: one inbox for all digital messagingand real-time (voice/chat) channels – retaining native experience of each messaging platform.
Agents in Control: ‘pulling’ work in natural flow, while dynamic prioritization maintains SLAs – and prevents ‘cherry picking’.
Customer Card: full customer context, journey and conversation history, plus sentiment.
Holistic management
With CXone, omnichannel interactions are managed holistically, from agents to supervisors and beyond. Integrated workforce optimization, analytics, automation and artificial intelligence across digital and voice interactions ensure complete management across contact center operations.
Self-Service: native AI-powered chatbot and 20+ DEVone AI bots with seamless elevation to agents.
