2. Who we are
Praveen Krishnan
CEO, NoApp.io
Product & Customer Guy
Thileepan
CTO, NoApp.io
Engineering Guy
We are NoApp.io - We make your customers happy!
3. Your next 30 Minutes
5 must-dos to AWESOME customer service
How do you get there?
What are Bots
State of AI
Q&A
6. #1 Goal, not Tool Talk Notes:
Their business is to let you make a
precise hole in a surface.
Internalize that it’s the goal not the tool
and you will be better off right away
7. #2 Be Available & Interact Everywhere
Talk Notes:
Don’t just have a presence on all
messaging channels, be available to
interact on those channels.
9. #3 Be responsive, Like you know..REALLY RESPONSIVE
Talk Notes:
Applies to all channels!
Be super responsive on whatever
channel your customer is on.
This will WoW them!
10. #3 Responsive -- maybe not..
Talk Notes:
Don’t offer a chat box and then ask users
to wait?!
Be Prompt! Respond right away!
11. #3 Responsive -- maybe not..
Talk Notes:
It’s annoying when you ask for form input
in a chat window!
Give me stuff before you ask me for my
personal info!
12. #4 Know your S#$#, and admit if you don’t
Talk Notes:
Customers are very savvy. They
research stuff on Google and YT.
So, don’t try to bullshit!
14. #5 Empathy please
Empathy Phrases
“Thank you for being patient…”
“I cannot imagine how upsetting
this must be...”
“Ugh, I can see your point there ..”
“I can understand how frustrating
this is ...”
Talk Notes:
Show Empathy ALL THE TIME
Some phrases show empathy
15. #5 Empathy please
Empathy Phrases
“Thank you for being patient…”
“I cannot imagine how upsetting
this must be...”
“Ugh, I can see your point there ..”
“I can understand how frustrating
this is ...”
Good Reads
Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard
myragolden.com/blog
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
16. Ideal Customer Service Rep
Talk Notes:
Your ideal CS Rep needs some amazing
qualities.
You want them cheap and scalable.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
17.
18. The Bot Talk Notes:
Bots can give you the ideal CS rep
qualities at scale and cost.
You still need Humans but you can
offload healthy subset of interactions to
well-trained Bot.
20. What is a chatbot?
NATURAL
DIALOG
SYSTEM
Talk Notes:
Typical chatbot understands natural
language and carries out tasks or
retrieves information
21. Build a Bot
DIY Tools
Chatfuel
Motion.ai
FlowXO.com
API.ai
Pullstring
Get a Professional
NoApp.io — :)
Talk Notes:
Lots of ways to build Bots now.
Choose the right tool for the complexity
of Bot you need.
Tools are constantly evolving. YMMV.
23. What is coming soon… real soon
Talk Notes:
Google Deepmind Demo playing
Breakout!
24. After 2 hrs of play time
Talk Notes:
AI gets really good.
25. After 4 hrs of play time
Talk Notes:
AI figures out the winning strategy!
Holy Shit!
26. The End
# 5 customer service must-dos:
Goal, not tool
Be Everywhere
No waiting
Know your stuff
Empathy
# Automate with a Bot
# Keep your eye on AI (Botheads Meetup)
thank rework
How many you from the ‘AI for Business Meetup’?
AI + Business
Targeted at businesses and lay people
Praveen
Been an engineer and then product manager, leading product teams at multiple company over the years
Thilee
Engineer lead at multiple companies
Together and another partner, we’ve worked with hundreds of customers over the years, big and small.
Led product and customer teams.
When we turned NoApp into a customer service company, we talked to a number of companies and people about what makes great customer service.
Distilled it into 5 nuggets, that we think would be useful to you
Interactive session
If you have anecdotes, thoughts, critiques -- speak up!!
How many interact with customers directly
How many have customer service teams
What does this company sell?
Precisely drilled holes
If there’s one takeaway from this presentation, it is this..
Internalize the Goal not Tool mantra, especially your employees.
It will color all your interactions with your customers, and turn into one where you are looking at helping the customer instead of helping yourself.
They get to their goal and are happy
You know what they say about happy customers...
Big difference being on a platform and being active on it… you need to respond to people on their platforms
Many business are present on Facebook but do not interact there….
Many business do not put a phone number for customer service - mistake...don’t hide.
Snapchat api…?..
Few tools to help you.
You all know about being responsive, being responsive has changed recently..
Instant gratification
People spend under 10 seconds on a page.
Goal is to get good reviews, not just prevent bad reviews
Snapchat -- How many -- Facebook -- Grandfather --
Snapchat Generation --- Disappearing messages --- Story about iOgrapher…
Chat dialogs on websites
Backed by agents
Great -- but be responsive -- don;t make me wait
Phone
--- Good but you should answer right away --- No Wait Music --- Credit Card company -- Chase
Email
--- Get back in under 19 hours, preferably personalized auto-responder saying you will get back at a certain time.
Pet Peeve -- don’t ask for email and my life history before you’ve given me something...
Savvy Customers
Doctors deal with this all the time - Patients go in with a wealth of facts about their rash
Read about this study…
Don’t dismiss it..
Say “Very Interesting, I must’ve missed that somehow. I’ll look into it”
It’s okay to say you don’t know that specific issue but say you will get back to them in the next 12 hours.
Then there are these customers
These customers, same as others, know how to find and use Yelp.
Then there are these customers
# Remember Goal not Tool
My fav tip - that I follow on my own — Say thank you instead of sorry
Then there are these customers
# Remember Goal not Tool
My fav tip - that I follow on my own — Say thank you instead of sorry
Qualities
Your company is doing well — you have a lot of customers —- Now you need a lot of these guys —- because they represent your brand
You are focused on Revenue and CS is a Cost Center —- so naturally, you look at reducing cost there — Cheap
The Reps perspective — Bad customers — High turnover
So, one way to Keep these high standards and Scale is to Automate
What is the one resource that small companies waste a lot but yet is the most expensive.
TIME
Welcome our BOT overlords
Just kidding
Stanley Kubrick Fans??
Past couple of years we seen a confluence of two trends --- Messaging and Artificial Intelligence
Billions of people messaging
Major advances in AI
Allowed the creation of Bots -- software programs that can act intelligently, with natural human input
Now, business don’t know what to do with this yet ---- It’s a strange block -- arrived, no real purpose
A chat bot is simply something that you can chat with on Messenger, Skype, SMS or voice. It is not a person but it responds like a person and can do things for you, like a person.
Message it, like you message a friend
TAlk to it… Siri, demo ---- Hey Siri, send a tweet that people love this presentation
Siri, OK Google, Google Ads, Uber Cars
Machine learning
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