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5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Customer Service Chatbot

June 26, 2020

Hardik Makadia

CEO, WotNot

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No matter what business or industry you are into, your customers will always be the most valuable stakeholders in your business. “Customer is king” will always stand true irrespective of the type of business you operate.

This brings us to the importance of improving and maintaining customer satisfaction to keep our business booming. With the era of digitization, more and more people now live online. Most of your potential customers are likely to discover your business online rather than physically. This has led to more people interacting with businesses solely via digital space.

With so many options for better-informed customer, it has become difficult to retain and attract customers using traditional methods.

Traditional methods are no longer useful in retaining and attracting customers.

To keep up with changing times, it is essential for businesses to move along the digital path. Hence the need for chatbots in customer service is not a far-fetched idea anymore. It is a promising reality for the vast number of benefits it entails.

Chatbots are increasingly being inculcated as a part of customer service across all industries and businesses. Here are 5 good reasons why you too should consider doing the same:

Instant Response

In today’s internet era, people have answers even before they have finished asking the questions. In such a scenario, it becomes indispensable to provide answers to your prospective customers as soon as possible. Using traditional methods, your prospects need to wait for your customer service agents’ availability to get the answers they need.

But with chatbots in your customer service strategy, your customers do not have to wait for simple FAQs. Chatbots provide instant response to your customers’ queries. Chatbots also work consistently and do not require coffee/tea breaks! Instant response helps you provide enhanced customer experience.

24*7 Availability

If your customers are made to wait (for hours / days) for the answers they seek, they are most likely to choose someone else offering the same solutions as you (your competitors!).

And you sure wouldn’t want that!

This is where chatbots come to your rescue. With the help of chatbots, your business can address the incoming queries round the clock. Chatbots enable your business to be available for your customers even during non-working hours. The leads generated by the customer service chatbot can then be nurtured further by your agents. This makes your business accessible to the people at their ease.

Better Engagement

There’s a reason why chatbots are called ‘chat’bots. It is because they provide a conversational warmth to the user, as if you are chatting with a friend. The boom of messaging apps proves how messaging is the most preferred way of communication. Chatbots are more interactive than forms or questionnaires and hence retain the attention of the user for a longer period of time.

Using customer service chatbots, businesses can provide an enriching user experience to their customers. This helps in attracting and retaining customers in the long run.

Scalability

Your customer support team can handle only a handful of queries at a given time. If your website traffic increases, the team cannot handle all the queries at the same time, thereby resulting in your customers waiting.

With chatbots in customer service, that changes!

Whether you have 5 or 500 people on your website looking for answers, a chatbot is able to answer any number of queries instantly, at the same time. Your customer does not have to wait as the bot addresses each customer while providing each of them personalized experience.

Speak with customers in their language

Admit it, your attention is quickly grabbed by a person speaking in the same language as yours. Your customers are no different.

Chatbots can interact with your targeted audience in their language. This personalizes the experience for your customers, and at the same time allows your business to scale up to new markets.

In the era of digitization, customers are now better informed and have a multitude of options to choose from. If your business does not cater to the ever-evolving needs of the customers, then you would be left behind and your business would suffer.

Implementing chatbots in your business largely improves customer satisfaction.

We at WotNot understand that every business needs a customized solution for their customers. WotNot provides chatbot solutions with exciting features like live chat and chatbot analytics!

ABOUT AUTHOR

Hardik Makadia

CEO, WotNot

His leadership, pioneering vision, and relentless drive to innovate and disrupt has made WotNot a major player in the industry.