Enhancing the Customer Experience to Improve Retention

In today’s technology-driven world, we are all used to getting instant gratification with information at the touch of our fingertips. Customers expect real-time answers to their questions, or they’ll go elsewhere. It’s up to you to provide that seamless communication that allows us to meet them where they are.

Great customer experiences are directly related to your responsiveness on a variety of online channels, including your website. Here’s why having webchat and text messaging on your website is important and how AlarmBrand can help you create an effective and easy multi-channel communications strategy that drives growth for your alarm company.

Why Using Multiple Ways to Connect with Customers is Important

Your customers often use multiple devices and channels to connect with someone to answer their questions. Creating a seamless process for them to talk to customer service and meet them where they are is important. Your customers expect it.

Maybe one potential customer was researching their issue and discovered your website in a meeting where they couldn’t engage in a live chat conversation but wanted to ask a question. As soon as the meeting is over, they return to the conversation on a different device to see if they can pick up the chat.

The whole process must run smoothly so they can find answers to their questions no matter where they are or what device they’re on. So, being able to transition seamlessly between text, your website, team members, chatbots, and live chat is critical.

Strategies for Maintaining a Great Omnichannel Experience

Here are some essential strategies for streamlining the omnichannel experience for your customers.

Maintain a Consistent Brand Voice

It’s very important that you maintain a consistent brand voice across all channels and that even includes tone of voice. If confidence and passion are essential elements of your brand and you want to show your customers your commitment, be sure that is expressed across all forms of communication.

Your Communications Should Be All in One Place for Maximum Efficiency

Your communications from Google, Facebook, Instagram and webchat / text should all be in one place, so even if your business operates in multiple locations, it’s easy for team members to talk to each other. Your team members in New York should be doing the same thing as those in your San Diego office.

AlarmBrand webchat & text provides a central dashboard allows you to manage internal and external communication easily.

Find Team Collaboration Tools that Work for Your Company

It’s also critical to find team collaboration tools that facilitate communication and help you provide the best customer service possible. A platform like AlarmBrand chat includes a dashboard that brings everything together in one location. You can easily access team members in other departments and locations to ensure your customers’ questions are answered quickly.

If someone contacts the sales team for a tech issue, that department can easily add a support team member to the conversation quickly. The ability for team members to collaborate provides a better customer experience. Our online & mobile dashboard allows for seamless transitions for your customers between devices, team members, and channels.

A Single Messaging Platform Makes Communication More Efficient and Effective

AlarmBrand provides one messaging platform so team members can work together to answer your customers’ questions and provide the best customer experience. Plus, you can provide multiple ways for people to contact you, like chat, email, video, text, and more.

With one powerful webchat and text platform, AlarmBrand provides alarm companies with a consistent communication process from one unified inbox. This allows you to meet your customers where they are and offer the support they need with the same look, feel, and tonality for a uniform brand voice.

What Does Website Chat & Text Messaging Cost?

AlarmBrand Chat helps your business attract more leads, delight your customers, and accomplish more without hiring help. Starting at $199/mo., you get:

Text based website chat
Personalized set up, onboarding & support
Website reporting and customization
Capture more online reviews
Automations that streamline tasks
Team leaderboard to incentivize and track reviews
Month to month billing. No contracts.

About AlarmBrand

We create websites and marketing for the electronic security industry that communicate your story, resonate with your audience, and generate revenue. Since 2009, brands that you know and trust have leveraged our digital marketing expertise to grow their businesses, including SDM 100, SDI Fast 50, monitoring centers, technology providers, professional corporations, and security SMB’s across the USA.