E-commerce: focus on customer service for those with special needs


Besides from equipping your e-commerce website with special features for those with special needs, you must also focus on customer service.

The wise option would be to automatically offer help to someone who seems to be struggling to navigate your website. Regardless of whether the consumer has special needs or not, being given assistance can greatly improve customer satisfaction. You should implement several channels that would allow online shoppers to get in touch with you. For instance, they must be able to utilise email, live chat, phone calls and other methods. Moreover, you must also train your client service team to cater for people with special needs. This would avoid employees getting nervous or flustered when dealing with consumers. They should be taught how to use the special equipment utilised to deal with these callers. An agent at a call centre recounted an episode which transformed the way they operate. They received an email from a deaf customer asking to call her on a given number. Everyone was reluctant to do so since they did not know how to communicate with her. However, an agent mustered the courage to make the phone call and he found out that the client had already a device that would help the conversation flow smoothly.

As such, you should train customer service agents so that they can deal with clients with special needs in an efficient manner.


Provide an appropriate customer service

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