Customer service

Explore expert articles on customer service management, training, and tools to enhance your support team’s performance and customer satisfaction.

Improving Customer Response Time with Knowledge Base Software

Time is of the essence in customer service. Whether it comes to page loading speed, product and service delivery, or the responsiveness of a support team, time can make or break the experience of your customer. Experience has become a product, and one of its most important... read more

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d.gawel
8 minutes
Sep 19, 2022

What is Asynchronous Messaging & How to Use It in Customer Service

When it comes to customer service, what’s more frustrating than having to start a chat all over again because you accidentally closed a tab? I mean, besides waiting 15 minutes in a queue to talk to a CS agent?  If there’s anything that could bring comfort in such situations,... read more

7 minutes
Sep 19, 2022

SMS Communication in Customer Service

SMS (Short Messaging Service) is the most frequently used messaging system in America. According to a study by Simple Texting, nearly 26 billion SMS messages are sent every day in the USA. It’s a testament to their convenience since nearly everyone uses SMS at some point during... read more

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Wojciech Pollok
3 minutes
Jul 4, 2022

Team Chat: Looking for the Perfect Customer Success Metric

How do you determine customer success? Do you need a group of metrics specifically chosen for your business? Or maybe there’s one perfect metric that tells us everything we need to know? The Data and Research team from LiveChat got together on Slack to look for metrics that can... read more

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Jacob Firuta and 3 others
7 minutes
Nov 12, 2020

Top 5 Benefits of Chatbots in Conversational Banking

Mobile devices have become a banking channel for communication. 75 % of customer interactions with banks happen online or via mobile apps. We use mobile apps to easily check our balance, quickly transfer money, or take small loans out in the comfort of our home. A fun fact is... read more

5 minutes
Jun 24, 2020

How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

A long time ago, entrepreneurs were struggling to provide buyers with high-quality products and reasonable prices. While these elements of the business are still very relevant, they are gradually losing the race against customer satisfaction. Namely, recent surveys revealed that... read more

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Rachel Bartee
6 minutes
Dec 4, 2017

Improving Customer Service Standards Online

Customer service is the key factor in customer satisfaction. Over the years, businesses have migrated to the digital world. It has become important for all organizations to maintain a strong online presence. The instantaneous ‘click & buy’ has been instilled into our online... read more

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Sajay Singh
8 minutes
Nov 14, 2017

How to Balance Personalized Customer Service and Automation

The word automation has soaked up a soiled reputation lately. While it brings the promise of efficiency and time-savings, there are deeper fears associated with the word that we can’t seem to shake. Anxiety builds around the idea that robots will take over our jobs and there’s a... read more

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Elle Morgan
6 minutes
May 16, 2017

Customer Service Scripts: Guidelines, Not Rules

Recently Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, released his annual letter to shareholders. It's a must-read missive, filled with pearls of management philosophy and leadership lessons from the guy who created the $430 billion juggernaut. Bezos is focused on how to prevent a successful business... read more

6 minutes
May 12, 2017

Take Appreciation to Another Level: Customer Appreciation Ideas

When you think about your life, you can probably find people who appreciate you at some point. People at work, in your private life, your colleagues or even your tennis teacher. The people who appreciate you, are the ones who say how important you are, how great you do your job,... read more

8 minutes
Jun 24, 2016

How to Discover Customer Pain Points

Have you ever imagined what happens with all the customers who found your website, added some of your wares to their shopping carts and then just left? What pushed them to do so? To put it simply, they’ve encountered a step in the buying process that they couldn’t or didn’t want... read more

8 minutes
Dec 17, 2015

What Your Business Can Still Do to Prepare for Cyber Monday

Online businesses have one of the busiest parts of the year ahead of them. In two days, the Black Friday craze will start. Millions of consumers will rush to score the best deals from major retailers. In four days, we’ll see the same thing for online businesses when the Cyber... read more

5 minutes
Nov 25, 2015

Improve Communication Skills for Customer Service

You can upgrade your good customer service to great by speeding up your support. After all, fast communication is one of the most important customer service skills. It’s all about scale. Once you get everything right when talking to one customer, it’s time to do it with six other... read more

13 minutes
Jul 30, 2015

How to Create a Call Center in 5 Easy Steps

Do you run a busy SMB and feel the need to graduate from your antiquated business phone to a more fitting solution? Are you feeling a little hesitant to jump into the big bad world of call center software? If you answered “Yes!” to either of those questions, you have come to the... read more

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Tiago Paiva
7 minutes
May 12, 2015

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