Alex Gadd leads Kustomer's professional services, technical support, and customer success teams. Kustomer is an omnichannel customer service CRM platform that automates repetitive tasks and provides real-time views of customers throughout conversations. Proactive customer service focuses on customer needs rather than wants and allows companies to control word-of-mouth, while reactive service relies on customer complaints. Proactively engaging customers through self-service content, addressing account issues, admitting mistakes, check-ins, and activating dormant users can help reduce churn rates by 3-5% and lower contact center costs by 20-30% without customers ever complaining. Companies should catalog persistent issues, find quick wins, and communicate positives to show