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Driving renewals and growing the customer base are crucial for successful companies.  Customers throw a major wrench in the mix they don’t buy or don’t renew because they think you don’t have the features they want- and you do! We’ve noticed our email automation and marketing automation customers are especially susceptible to this problem. Proper customer relationship management is something that many email service providers overlook and cause them to lose customers. If you don’t want to be one of those companies, updating product documentation and providing exceptional self-service will significantly benefit your customer relationship management and drive the renewals and new customers your company needs for growth.

Make it Effortless for Customers to Find What they Need


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When a customer looks for a particular feature in your email service platform and can’t find it right away, they’re more than likely to assume that you just don’t have that feature. Forcing your customers to dig through your service to find what they they need sure to disappoint and drive them to your competitors.

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Providing top-notch customer service doesn’t have to involve lengthy back-and-forth calls with your users.  It can be much easier. In fact, bad product documentation could be hurting your customer retention. Indeed your help and product documentation is a valuable customer relationship management (CRM) tool that you might be overlooking.  Your documentation increases customer retention and turns your users into product experts whom would never dream of leaving your products. So, it’s more important than ever to seriously consider whether your product documentation is actually proving useful.
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