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Good customer service starts with good communication between your organization and the customer. A good way to begin a relationship with a customer is to find out how the customer wants you to communicate with them and then work to improve each and every experience; be-it face-to-face, over the phone, chat, your website, email, or mail. The better the experience the customer has, the better the relationship and the better for your business.

Listening to your customers, and finding out what they really want and need is the simplest way to gain the trust required to form a truly positive relationship. Remembering people’s names, thanking them for their business, noticing things that that they need or that need complimenting are also ways to enhance communications. Remember things they tell you about their family or their past experiencesis also important to developing a relationship. This is where your CRM Software can help. Use the journal or the area setup to record this type information.

Developing a process to find and record information during each customer contact is also helpful. Using a Business Process Management strategy helps the organization constantly improves how it develops customer relationships, by consistently communicating with the customer the same way and constantly improving how those communication take place. It also make the recording of information gained from these contacts consist so future contacts are soft a and positive for the customer.

Excellent Customer Service begins with a positive attitude, and that attitude begins with our fellow employees being treated the way we want our customers treated. Treating everyone the way we want to be treated is the simple idea behind great customer service, and knowing that our fellow employees are also our customer is the second half of this equation.

It has long been our motto at CAASPRE Consulting, that customer service is treating everyone the way you want to be treated, or treating the customer the way you would treat your best friend if you were doing business with them.

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CRM is the front–line contact with the customer. BPM is the main tool used by the Customer Service or CRM to guarantee the customer experiences is a positive one every time they have a transaction with the organization. Without the correct processes in place, even the best Customer Service Team cannot provide a consistent experience to the organization’s customers. BPM is taking a new role in CRM. A well defined BPM strategy can bring transparency to the CRM or Customer Service effort.

For sometime now organizations have been trying to deliver better and better customer service. CRM has focused on capturing detailed customer information, used mainly for sales and marketing to generate further sales. Customer Service relies on employees to resolve customer issues.

In this scenario customer’s experience will vary depending on the employee interpretation of company policies. This explains why organizations are still spending a fair amount of money, and not achieving higher customer satisfaction scores.

Customer Service has been an isolated area in organizations that is left on its own to resolve customer issues that may involve multiple areas of the organization. Many organizations have not found a resolution to this challenge. This is where BPM can help.

Most CRM or Customer Service systems have been standalone solutions that are used in the front-end of the organization where direct contact with the customer occurs. These systems have limited integration with other areas or the back-office. This approach relies on the processes and policies of the Customer Service organization and its isolated systems. This relies on manual communications to other areas of the organization to resolve customer issues. The real customer issue may be lost in the shuffle.

By implementing a BPM solution, organizations can define the customer service processes that will involve interdepartmental dependencies and provide more efficient, positive customer experience and lower costs. BPM solutions are fundamentally different than CRM, or Customer Service solutions because these solutions span all areas of an organization. These solutions involve the process from start to finish, and can incorporate employee tasks, communications functions and other systems to produce efficient, structured customer focused processes.

Think of a customer service department that is guided through each step of a transaction with a customer. Imagine a solution where the employee knows exactly what to do and say in every situation. The escalation process to other areas of an organization and to legacy systems was automated, so that issues could be resolved with speed and efficiency. That’s what the BPM solutions like AuraPortal can offer.

This revolutionary approach to Customer Service begins to change the way organizations find customer loyalty. By delivering consistent positive customer experience across the organization, organizations can quickly change customer experience and increase customer loyalty and deliver positive results, both to the customer and the bottom line.

BPM solutions enable organizations to make changes in processes easily and efficiently. Organizations that do not adopt BPM solutions to correct their processes and become more efficient most rely on employee training and employee behaviors to bring about change. BPM offers transparency, consistency of process, and more integration throughout the organization. This brings about the desired change.

Implementing a BPM strategy that puts the focus on the customer makes for a more efficient operation, and it delivers improved management and resolution of customer issues. This helps organizations achieve increased efficiency and improves the customer experience.