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taylodl ◴[] No.44974720[source]
How many times has a chatbot successfully taken care of a customer support problem you had? I have had success, but the success rate is less than 5%. Maybe even way less than 5%.

Companies need to stop looking at customer support as an expense, but rather as an opportunity to build trust and strengthen your business relationship. They warn against assessing someone when everything is going well for them - the true measure of the person is what they do when things are not going well. It's the same for companies. When your customers are experiencing problems, that's the time to shine! It's not a problem, it's an opportunity.

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IT4MD ◴[] No.44976029[source]
>Companies need to stop looking at customer support as an expense, but rather as an opportunity to build trust and strengthen your business relationship.

As someone that's worked in basically a service industry my entire life, good luck with this. I don't disagree, I'm just old enough to understand the world that humans build, and this type of long-term approach is dead in the current "Profits over all" culture of the US.

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mionhe ◴[] No.44976441[source]
Is there a place where it isn't dead in the world? It seems to be the attitude everywhere nowadays.
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1. IT4MD ◴[] No.44977314[source]
In very specific places. I manage technical helpdesks and I maintain Customer Service, but I'm a dying breed, based on my experience with the rest of the world.