Sarah Chambers wrote close to 60 articles on customer service for the TextExpander blog, from live chat scripts and professional support phrases to building a service strategy.
Customer service policy guidelines give support agents consistency while leaving room for judgment. Use this simple template to define your policy, weigh key considerations, and map the support workflow your team follows.
Measuring customer satisfaction shows how customers actually see your business, which often differs from internal assumptions. Review CSAT best practices and why satisfaction results drive long-term customer loyalty.
Empathy in customer support means understanding what customers actually need, beyond following best practices. Learn what empathy is, how to build it, where to apply it, and who needs it most to set your service apart.
Better customer onboarding shapes first impressions and can reduce early churn. Apply six tips, including segmenting customers, focusing on high-value product touchpoints, measuring engagement, and crafting customer journeys.
Twenty-two customer satisfaction survey questions help you measure whether customers stay happy consistently over time, covering past experiences, individual responses, product experience, and customer expectations.
Tracking customer service KPIs shows whether your support team is running well before problems pile up. See why first reply time, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and average resolution time matter most.
The importance of customer service shows up in word of mouth, loyalty, pricing, and retention. Explore six observations on how customer service shapes brand reputation, product insights, and marketing opportunities.
Support automation works best when it keeps people in the loop. Learn how rule-based workflows, human checkpoints, an automation journey map, and result tracking let teams respond faster without feeling robotic.
Customer service metrics can push teams to chase numbers over people. Explore how a focus on metrics hurts the customer experience, why service is a long game, and how to keep measurement in its place.