The COVID-19 pandemic may fundamentally reshape some areas of how we live our lives, especially for companies. Many companies are implementing mandatory work-from-home policies to help to slow the spread of the virus. This means that all of us are up to face an extraordinary challenge: working from home.
According to the studies, employees who have the opportunity to work from home or have the opportunity to work from another remote location are said to be more cheerful, more productive, and more loyal to their company. In a simple word, a change of working environment may lead to increased productivity for some, but on the other hand, it can lead to a dip in productivity for others. As follows, how do you ensure that your team is staying productive when working from home or working on various remote environments?
If you are one of the few lucky businesses that could have the option to allow your employees to work from home during this period, you should make sure that your team is set up for success. Here are some of the actions that you can take at this moment:
1. Set the Expectations
Setting expectations around working hours and productivity levels are very crucial for employees. For instance, establishing that employees should plan to be working on normal business hours when working from home is a solid starting point.
2. Embrace Digital Working Space
Leverage productivity tools and app to help you interact in a better way and build a much stronger communication with your employees.
You can use platforms for video and audio like Zoom, GoogleMeets and many others to schedule quick every day meetings, and also giving the employees a place to express their aspirations and discussions about the problems they face.
In like manner, for day-to-day communication within the organization we recommend using Microsoft Teams to communicate with all employees.
3. Provide Guidance on Timekeeping.
Employees will still need to accurately record all hours worked. Make sure you provide an accurate and helpful tools for your employees, with the purpose that they can track and record their time while doing the remote working. Real-Time Activity Tracker feature on TapTalk.io Omnichannel Customer Support to monitor your employee’s performance and keep them on track.
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There are many companies that can provide chat services if you are thinking of integrating chat features to your websites and applications. It is known that companies like Sendbird, Qiscus, Zendesk, Tawk.to and etcetera could be a solution to that. However, there is a new alternative chat SDK in town and that is TapTalk.io. In this article, we will tell you many reasons why you should consider Taptalk.io as a solution and provide the service for your business.
One of our advantages is being able to integrate a ready UI to your business websites and applications. Taptalk.io sees countless and innumerable problems that can arise. For instance, small-medium businesses around us that may not have sufficient spending power to develop chat features starting from UI. Another example is those who want to implement UI with little time. This feature enables companies to implement a chat feature along with the User Interface (UI). In TapTalk.io, the UI is built and designed with User Experience as its core by the companies UI/UX team.
With seamless UI integration in TapTalk.io, companies will be able to implement chat features with ready-to-use UI in a short time and simple integration process.
The smart local cache is another special feature of TapTalk.io. The smart local cache allows you to optimize storage usage and enhance chat performances. This feature will also cut down the size of your applications. This is made possible by cleaning all local data and cache of messages that are older than one month. But no need to worry, all messages can be accessed again when you need it because they are stored in TapTalk.io’s server.
You don’t need to go through and think about all the painful processes to solve any problems because with TapTalk.io, all of these features are built-in.
When companies want to chat services for their business, there are a lot of things to consider. Things like “Will your chat company’s UI be able to match my business’ personality?” or “Can your company provide the kind of chat bubble that goes along with our needs?”. With TapTalk.io, the answer is YES. TapTalk.io has UI customization which can be custom-tailored to your company’s brand and personality.
Taptalk.io knows that each and every businesses and organization have different personalities and uniqueness, not to mention the needs when it comes to chat bubbles. In Taptalk.io, you can customize the color in our standard UI and insert your own custom bubble that your businesses need and correspond with your business’ flow and personalities.
These three features are why you should consider TapTalk.io. TapTalk.io is a suitable solution for your business. Aside from these three, there are other benefits that your business can get if you use TapTalk.io.
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Nowadays, many e-commerce and companies try to integrate a chat feature to their website or application. There are 2 ways for businesses to integrate this feature. One way is, they build the chat from scratch by themselves and the other is they buy licensing or subscription from a third party chat SDK provider.
Both these strategies have their own advantages and disadvantages that must be considered before the company integrate chat feature in their applications and websites. The advantages and disadvantages are related to various factors such as infrastructure, development cost, and development time.
Chat infrastructure — is very important when it comes to chat features. First, the chat infrastructure needs to accommodate personal and group chat based on its business model. Depending on the business model, the chat infrastructure also needs to accommodate attachment like images, files, videos, location, and many more. More importantly, the chat infrastructure also needs to have a reliable security system. The system must guarantee all data and information that are sent through the chat feature is safe and encrypted from anyone or any organizations that do no authority to see it.
Development Cost — including server, technology, and investment on the employee. The economical factor is an important factor in business. It is a costly process when a business wants to add a chat feature in their applications and websites. Expenses could include server costs, employee salaries, employee benefits, technology costs, and maintenance costs.
Development Time — is all the time and processes that are spent to develop or create a chat feature. Development time will have a massive impact on any company’s business profit because the longer the development time, the greater the costs. Just as mentioned in the paragraph above, all the costs include; Expenses could include server costs, employee salaries, employee benefits, technology costs, and maintenance costs.
All these factors will affect any benefit that all businesses can get from either the strategy. If a business chooses to build its own chat feature, flexibility in terms of infrastructure will become the main benefit that the business gets. If a business chooses to subscribe to a third-party vendor, simplicity in terms of development cost and time will be the main benefit that the business will get.
At the end of the day, it really depends on whichever you think is effective and efficient for your business. We in TapTalk.io, we provide the solution businesses who want to avoid all the cost and development time. Integration is as easy as A-B-C as all you need to do is just to put a few codes!
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Some people call it chat-commerce, some may call it conversational commerce. The true meaning of it is, commerce that is based on the digital conversational platform between sellers and customers. This changes everything. Especially in a society where there is little trust between customer and seller, now we are able to interact when shopping online.
Many people can’t differentiate the difference between chat-commerce and regular e-commerce. Like what we already covered in the last paragraph; the main difference is that instead of customer buying on a platform and communicate with the vendors for support or complaints, chat-commerce includes all the personal communication that occurs between customers and sellers before, during, and after making sale transactions.
Chat-commerce also follows the trend development of the chat application. For instance, if we refer to the data that happen in Indonesia we can see how huge the potential is for the current chat industry and chat-commerce. Based on APJII (Association of Internet Service Providers in Indonesia), communication through message is the number one reason people use the internet. Chat application also is being used by 60 million small medium enterprises to sell their products, according to an article by Chris Franke.
According to the data above, communication is exceptionally and undoubtedly important in the industry of commerce. Data above also shows that in the future, chat-commerce is guaranteed to accommodate and smoothen communication between customers and sellers.
TapTalk.io team knows this for a fact and our mission is to help all e-commerce to implement chat features in their application or website with little investment and simple integration.
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In today's world, communication represents a big part of business revenue. Many new e-commerce businesses are getting inventive regarding their strategy to encourage interaction between customer and seller, also between customer and company customer service. One of those strategies is using live chat. Live chat is believed will increase e-commerce conversion and improving the effectiveness in terms of cost and productivity. Live Chat already been implemented by many e-commerce globally with many functionalities, for example as a feature for customers to negotiate the price of the product or just to ask for questions about the application or website problem to the customer service.
In theory according to bigcommerce.com, the average of e-commerce conversion rates are 1% to 2%, and these conversion rates can be improved using live chat. There are many examples that prove these statements, from the American Marketing Association that claimed chat in B2B companies able to improve their conversion rates by 20% to Virgin Airlines that claimed their conversion rate improved by 23% and average order value improved by 15% after deploying their chat.
Other than increase conversion, using the live chat also helping the effectiveness in terms of cost and productivity. According to Websitebuilder, live chat is 400% less expensive than the phone support way of customer service. This means the company can press the budget and allocate it to another area like marketing, branding, and many else.
We in TapTalk.io believe that live chat feature is the future in e-commerce, where human interaction will be the key to the success of the transaction. PowerTalk will give the best experience in terms of chat with a reasonable price so every e-commerce, will different power of spending can feel this benefit of live chat.
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