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As a company leader, you are responsible for the strategic direction and tactical execution of your business. Knowing your customers, both the “squeaky wheels” and the “silent majority”, is key. You need facts.
Your customers will love you - your competition will hate us.
The back office may not be the most important but what happens there is your dashboard to customer satisfaction. Driving it efficiently is the game changer in any customer experience. Hvantage is a team of over 200 specialists dedicated to managing those processes, with rigor and obsessive quality control. With 95% customer satisfaction on our end, we aim to hit the same metrics for you.
As an E-Commerce company, it is essential keeping your company’s orders, packaging and deliveries run smoothly at all times. It’s not an easy task to always manage deliveries and still focus on the other goals like orders, timeliness and satisfying reviews especially when every order is a firefighting. And that list of returns, refunds, and non-satisfying customers just seems to be getting longer, until your customer runs out of capacity and ability to negotiate.
This document discusses new features added to the KARTE customer service platform in April. It introduces the new "average purchase price" metric and how it can provide insights beyond the existing "average visit price". It also provides examples of "human-centric" customer experiences, such as adding seasonal touches to the site and thanking customers for their first bookmark. The document encourages users to provide feedback to further improve the platform.
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• Why Make Calls?
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