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After one year of avoiding the convenience stores due to the epidemic, consumers have had an interesting time with the likes and dislikes of digital stores. But if retailers were hoping to keep customers visiting their online stores, they shouldn’t have been able to better direct a new wave of consumer attitudes about online customer practices.
Customer service platform Happily in March released its fifth annual Customer Awareness Report, revealing what today's consumers are looking for in products, especially when shopping online. The report explains how consumers' expectations regarding e-commerce / sales have changed over the past year amid a global epidemic and an increase in online shopping.
Another detail is where the products are successful and fail in earning revenue and consumer loyalty. According to data collected from 1,507 foreign respondents, 83 percent of customers will spend more on products that bring greater online customer service. About a third of customers (28 percent) say that the expectations of their customers are not met, however.
High customer reasons for this dissatisfaction include explaining their case over and over again (73 percent) and knowing their ticket number (21 percent). The other thing about products is that about half of consumers surveyed (45 percent) will never buy a product again after two years of service experience.
"Last year has drastically changed the way consumers shop, with e-commerce exceeding a century earlier than it was twelve months ago due to the closure of plague-driven stores and the first online holiday season," said Joseph Ansanelli, Gladly's chief executive officer.
Last year, 45 percent of consumers contacted the company's customer service department at least twice. Another 35 percent reached three to five times, according to Ansanelli.
"This is where brand loyalty is created - or undermined. Internet retailers should do a personalized, not exclusive," he told CRM Buyer.
Fast money, Reps Drive Revenue The report found that there must be three key to today's shopping guidelines. In many cases, these three items are very much lost in the consumer online shopping experience.
First, the customer service attorney must be an expert with knowledge of the product in question, noting 78 percent of respondents. Next, the attorney should recommend other products that they know the customer will like, according to 34 percent of consumers purchased. Finally, the service provider needs to spend more time consulting with other options, insisting on 21% of responding customers.
Of those surveyed, about half (46 percent) expect customer representation to respond within the first minute of a live chat. In addition, 62 percent of consumers who want to complete their purchase during a live chat with a customer representative compared to continuing to go through the shopping cart process.
The report also revealed that the first impression of consumers on negotiation seems to be coming to an end. Online shoppers are now more likely to favor human employees than digital assistants.
Combined Emotions Grow vs. Chatbots This year discuss email as the second most popular channel of communication. Chatbots, which has so far been a pillar of online customer service, is divided by kindness. Consumers have mixed feelings about technology, finding them both useful and frustrating depending on their status.
A little over half (53 percent) of customers find chat chats very useful when they don't want to talk - or wait - a real person. A slightly lower percentage is divided by just over half of respondents (51 percent) of the preferred help from interviews when they want a simple question answered very quickly.
But negotiations are of great concern to customers when they present a barrier to communication with a personal representative (43 percent). More consensus against negotiations occurs when they make consumers feel like a number instead of a generated customer (52 percent).
"Consumers want fast, non-affiliate services with real-time channels such as chat and use for quick access. In fact, 60 percent of consumers report that they prefer to resolve issues if possible," Ansanelli noted.
Customer Service Channels, Changing Roles Phone and email, traditionally the most common means of communication with customer service, are seeing less and less consumer consumption as digital channels rise in popularity. The phone as a customer service station decreased by 11 percent per year over the year (48 percent compared to 37 percent).
Email also dropped from 17 percent at the beginning of 2020 to 15 percent at the end of the year. The live chat of the website and the text have seen a significant increase, rising by 5 percent and 3 percent per year, respectively.
Businesses need to be aware of this clear message about online shopping. The report confirms that job information is important for customer retention, noted Ansanelli; I refer back to 45 percent who will never buy a product again after two years of poor customer service experience.
While Covid ran all online transactions, business models needed to figure out how to replicate or predict the physical purchase experience on digital channels. They also had to learn how to keep consumers engaged and shopping without the good experience they could have in physical stores.
"Suddenly, they had no sales reps to greet customers when they came to the store and sold them with more products based on what they still had in their carts. Instead, the service team played the role," said I'm Happy CEO.
Service heroes are now product ambassadors. They help customers with product queries, make recommendations, and close sales, he explains.