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Have your tried to contact your company for support?

By Tom Sweeny March 20, 2021

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As you think of all the wonderful ways you can improve your customers’ experience start by contacting your own company for support.

It should be a simple process and one that many of your customers experience.  Hopefully you will find that connecting to your support team by phone, chat, support portal, or other available channels is a simple and streamlined process that is enjoyable (or at least tolerable).

You may be surprised how bad some experiences are – still to this day!  Hopefully you find that reaching your support team is not one of worst.

Here are a few things to consider when trying to contact Support:

  • Can you find the phone number? Can you get through?
  • Can you find the Customer Portal?
  • Are the prompts clear, do you known which option to choose?
  • Do you use an intelligent agent (or bot) that tries to help – is it helpful?
  • Once you get through the prompts and bots, how long did you have to wait?
  • While waiting, did you get updates about how long you may have to wait (customers like this).
  • If contacting by phone – Did you hear music? Good music?  Was it clear or garbled, too soft, or too loud?
  • Did you get connected or cut off?
  • Did you have to repeat what your issue is multiple times to multiple people?

So, how did you do?

Any one of these elements is enough to negatively affect a customer’s experience.  Connecting with your Support team by phone, chat, customer portal, or other channels should be simple, quick, and tolerable.  Try contacting your Support team – A few minor adjustments can have a big impact.

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