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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The process of buying and selling in e-commerce certainly cannot be separated from communication that occurs between the seller, customer, and platform/e-commerce itself. According to Unlock Customer Obsession by Tying Business Features to Outcomes, 72% from 502 online shoppers that they surveyed are more likely to shop frequently with retailers or sellers who they can communicate with. One particular aspect of online customer communication leads to loyalty and this is one way to retain your customers. This data is also backed by a study from Forrester and Listrak.
In the business world, good communication is important for the daily operation of the company, but can also affect sales and profitability. Without good business communication, the internal and external structure of a business can face numerous challenges that can ultimately lead to its demise. — Kristie Lorette
If we refer to a research paper by Joel Mero, two-way communication will have a significant effect on customers’ intention to buy, satisfaction level. It will also have an impact on customer intention for example; word of mouth. This is very important especially if you want to create and run your flywheel.
From the amazon flywheel above, we can see that customer experience is one of the major factors and all the benefits that we cover in the last paragraph will help elevate the experience.
There are ways to improve an effective communication. One option is through live chat. It is where sellers and customers can communicate without using third-party applications like WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalks, and many more. Live chat enables the problem to be solved in less time. For instance, when the user faces problems regarding anything. They can approach the platform or directly to the seller in a simple way. Live chat also enables customers and sellers to communicate in real-time without having to be in the same place at the same time.
For more information, visit our website http://taptalk.io or contact us through email hello@taptalk.io.
Along with the growth of in-app chat and messaging usage, and the demand for in-app chat implementation, there are some SaaS emerged to provide in-app chat solution. Before PowerTalk and other chat solutions emerged, some companies might consider building their own chat engine, they need to allocate some resources to analyze, plan, design, and develop their own chat infrastructure, and integrate it into their apps. If you haven't read the comparison about build your own chat solution or use SaaS, please read our article about "Mobile In-app Chat Libary – Build or Buy?".
And next comes the big question, with some of the solution is ready on the market, which one that really suits you? And how would you consider to choose between the available choice? Let us help you get through what element you should see before making your decision.
Some vendor provides a broad selection of platform and some of them provide a focused and targeted platform. See and plan what platform you want your product to support now and in the future, and choose a vendor that supports your chosen platform.
SaaS chat solution vendor is providing not only a server-side solution but also the frontend. And how you can implement the frontend side is really matters, some of the vendors provide only the logic side of the frontend, but some of them also provide UI based implementation, depends on what you need, if you need more flexibility, go with the logic implementation, and if you want the experience build like a real messenger apps in a short amount of time, go with the UI implementation. Putting in the chat logic to UI in the frontend is sometimes understated, but it also time-consuming and has a lot of details to handle.
Some chat vendors are specialized in their product for some case driven purposes like customer services or live chat. Some made it for you to freely integrate it to your apps. The customization also goes beyond to customizing their UI library color, creating your own UI or interaction, until creating your own chat bubble for custom cases.
Frontend is the last layer that will interact with your user, and you need to keep it at its best performance and let the user have the best experience. Big mobile messaging app out there like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Telegram is already setting up the bar, and in-app messenger with less feature or interaction below the bar will be taken as no good. In the chat framework, the hard work is not only handled by the server-side or backend, but so many heavy lifting and optimization are handled by the frontend side. Some of them like how data is saved, when we should flush the history so it doesn't make the app size bloated, how to load the room list or chat history in the best performance, how to give the interaction as best as big messenger apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Telegram.
Mobile messaging needs to be very seamless, so many people use the messaging apps on the go - while they commute or driving, and sometimes they close the apps when they uploading an image, video, or files, or maybe when they have a bad connection when they send a message. Without the background process, this message will not be sent properly, and it will be frustrating for users because they need to re-check what message is sent and not and resend it, and also they need to wait for it to send before they can close the apps.
Sometimes when you integrate chat to your apps, you might need to send messages to users via your own backend-server, whether it is a transactional message like order status, or a message blast and announcement to your user.
Don't forget to see what other features outside chat main scope that offered, some features like profanity filter, chat throttle, dashboard analytics, and many other features.
When you choose a SaaS vendor, the vendor itself is the biggest things for you to consider, most of all is how is their support, but there are some other things you need to see from the vendor such as:
We planned, designed, and developed all above feature you need in PowerTalk to give you and your user the best in-app chat experience, we provide you UI Based (TapUI) implementation so you can easily integrate a very good chat experience to your apps, or if you need more customization, you can use our logic-based implementation (TapCore), so you can develop your own custom UI and integrate our library to be work with it. But with our TapUI, you can do a lot of customization, from color, font, button function, and the best you can use your own custom bubble and make the interaction yourself.
The number of people using mobile messenger is growing really fast, with annual growth exceeding 15% and monthly active users more than 5.800 million users in April 2019. With this potential, so many startups initiate to put in-app chat to their own apps and delivering their user a new and better way to interact. Then the big question appears, should startup build their own in-app chat framework, or use ready solution for their apps?
So for this, let's take a look at some point, and so we can have a better understanding of what it takes to build in-app chat library, and or should we take a ready-to-use solution
So the first and most crucial thing to consider is time. Most startups need to innovate quickly and be agile to condition changes so the can stay afloat and rise against the competition. To build an in-app chat framework, there are a lot of things to do and so many crucial details to handle, and this means, building a chat framework will take a lot of time. Meanwhile having in-app chat ready in a few days will save startup a huge amount of time, and the faster you can deliver it to your user, the faster you can validate and test your minimum viable product.
The next thing to consider is budget while building a chat framework needs a lot of times, it means you need to maintain your resource for that amount of time, and having the operational cost to run for that length of time is obviously expensive. Besides the operational cost that you need to build the chat framework, you also need the cost for server hosting and maintenance after you deploy your chat framework.
When your in-app chat ready, of course, you still need to test and assure the quality, there are so many aspects to test in in-app chat framework, and to provide the best quality, you need to fix and improve the performance for your in-app chat framework, and continue the iteration. While when you use a ready-to-use framework, they might have tested and improved their solutions for years, and you just can use the solution at their best performance.
After all the points above, you will reach the time when you need to host and maintain your chat framework. How to keep your chat framework up and running, how to handle unexpected traffic, how to optimize your server, and so many other things. With ready-to-use solution, most come with a support and maintenance, and you can easily ask for help from the support if something happens.
Many ready-to-use solution comes with a library that can easily be tweaked for your needs, some of them provide a customizable user interface, and some offer a full code integration. Despite you need a really custom flow, we think most of the library in the market is offering enough flexibility.
In term of time and cost, building your own chat framework obviously take more time and cost, but if you need to cater a very custom possible case, you might need to build it on your own, but if you want a good, fast, and reliable chat, most of the framework on the market will save you a lot of time and money and help you iterate and validate your business faster to the market.
For PowerTalk, we prepared our library for you to use our complete and ready-to-use user interface, from room list, chat room, contact list, user profile, and many others. We design and maximize the performance of the apps, handle so many complex things - so you don’t have to, crafting that interaction to the micro animation, to bring out the best experience your user will feel. And the best thing of all this, you still can put in your branding inside it, you can custom every color of our component, change the font type and size, and so many other customization. Or, if you want more flexibility, you can create your own user interface, and use our library to handle chat and messaging purposes.
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