Gaining Customer Loyalty
through Support
A Case Study on WPML Team
Dat Hoang
Community and Support
Documentation
Why Support is a Must-have?
Main reason clients pay for
Word-of-mouth marketing
Listening to clients’ needs
Bottom Line of a Good Support
Source: https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2014/04/what-is-good-customer-service.html
Customers’ Expectation
Accurate Fast Comfortable
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add_action( ‘wpml_support’, ‘define_support’ );
Delivering
smiles
to
customers
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“Our best marketing bet is to have happy
customers who renew their subscriptions year
after year, and that recommend, blog and tweet
about how great is paying for our products,
instead of using other free plugins.
Source: the first training document for new supporters of WPML
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One-by-one New releases Additional trainings
add_action( ‘wpml_support’, ‘organize_team’ );
Tier 1
Front-desk
Tier 2
Senior
Tier 3
Developer
add_action( ‘wpml_support’,
‘extend_accessibility’ );
22 / 24 hours No holiday 9 languages
add_action( ‘wpml_support’, ‘define_policy’ );
Do Don’t
Certified partners
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● Statistics: the team, each individual and each
ticket
● Indicators:
○ Ratings: Great - Good - Not so good
○ Feedback when rating
○ New tickets per month/day
○ Average time to resolve per month
○ Resolved tickets per month/day
add_action( ‘wpml_support’, ‘create_self_help’ );
Documentation Errata
Resolved summaries Public support
At the End of the Day - Happy Customers
Andreas vielen
vielen dank :-)
Denise ha solucionado el
problema a la primera. Muy
agradecidos.
Andrey, Bсё отлично,
быстро отреагировали и
так-же быстро
решили.
多謝你們的專業支援,
特別感激 Luo的協助,
謝謝。
At the End of the Day - Happy Supporters
Have We Done?
good is
the enemy
of
- Jim Collins
great
add_action( ‘wpml_support’,
‘do_continuous_improvement’ );
● Better documentation - Wiki format
● Automatic ticket assignment
● Document suggestion before opening support
tickets
● Better internal communication - using P2
(small groups) and Skype (whole team)
Discussion
Big Thanks!
Dat Hoang
A member of OnTheGoSystems
@tiendathoang
Singapore, September 2016
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Gaining Customer Loyalty through Support - A Case Study on WPML Team