How Screencasts Help Improving Customer Retention

According to many marketing gurus, one of the key techniques for retaining customers is by improving customer experience through videos, especially screencasts. With the rise of smart devices, recorded videos are accessible to customers anytime and anywhere. They can play, watch, pause, stop, and replay screencasts as many times as they need. For more information about benefits of screencasts, refer to Why We Love Screencasts and You Should Too.

In this article, we bring you two effective ways to increase customer retention by using screencasts. Once mastering these techniques, you will build long-term customer relations, stay profitable, and make your brand stand out from the crowd.

2 Ways to Use Screencasts for Retaining Customers

It’s often said that it’s cheaper to keep existing customers than to find new ones. Below are some statistics from SalesForce Desk:

• It is 6 – 7 times more expensive to get a new customer than to keep a current one.
• A 5% increase in customer retention makes profits rise up to 125%.
• A 2% increase in customer retention has the same effect as reducing costs by 10%.

With those in mind, there is no doubt that every business needs to take a proactive approach to customer retention. But working in the customer service industry is a tough job. It involves understanding what customers want, knowing when they want it, and giving the perfect solutions to their problems at the right time.

So, how can screencasts help you increase your customer lifetime value and loyalty? Here are two convincing answers.

1. Use Screencasts to Simplify Email and Phone Support

Remember that not only to get new customers, but far more difficult still, to keep existing customers. In the article published on Forbes, the author Micah Solomon also emphasized that “No matter how loyal they are, some of them will leave your business from time to time, even never return. It is a part of the changeable human condition.” We cannot do anything against this truth but improving customer service.

One of the big reasons why you lose existing customers is that you cannot keep up with changes in customer needs such as speed, time flexibility, and quality. For example, while your competitor creates video tutorial series to support customers, you still provide technical support only over the phone and through email. If you resist changing the way of communication with customers, how could you maintain the relationship with them and improve your sales? Even though your quality has stayed the same, the game has changed.

To overcome this challenge, you need to take a serious look at using screencasts in customer support. Gone are the days when you sent emails to customers with full of text or answered phone calls for hours. You now just use a screencasting tool like ActivePresenter to record screen just one time, and you will save yourself a great deal of time and effort, even if thousands of customers need a problem solved at the same time. As a customer service officer, you will receive a lot of emails each day. Many of the question entries are the same, and you have other things to deal with. So, let screencasting tools help you reduce work overload and deliver excellent customer service.

2. Use Screencasts to Improve Customer Interaction on Social Media

Social media plays an increasingly important role in the customer service strategy of many companies. Conversations can involve anything from solving common issues, explaining complex ideas/features to introducing new how-to video tutorial series. If you have a business page (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) with thousands of fans and followers, read on how to use screencasts to improve their experience. This way will also help you keep your existing customers and get more new ones.

The image below is the screenshot (taken with ActivePresenter) of a Facebook post. This post mentioned a video tutorial which answered a question of many users when using Saola Animate: “How to group elements?”. As you can see, the post became shorter with an attached video link instead of too much text, making easier for customers to digest information and save the screencast for re-watching later.

Recording screen is especially practical in case you have a Twitter business page. Because this social platform limits 140 characters for each tweet, creating a screencast to guide customers through solutions to their problems is a great choice.

How to Create Professional Screencasts for Delivering Customer Service

Complex ideas are not easily accepted all the time, especially when customers become familiar with simple things. According to Dr. Emily Grossman, an expert in molecular biology and genetics, “when trying to explain complex information to an audience, the first task is to get the content of what you’re saying right, but how we communicate is also crucial.” This contributes to the fact that screencasts are more outstanding than email and phone calls in providing new and/or complex information for customers.

To create professional and impressive screencasts, you can give ActivePresenter a try. Here are useful tips for you:

• How to record screen and edit recorded videos with ActivePresenter
• Little-known screencasting tips for beginners
• How to make amazing video tutorials with ActivePresenter

Key Takeaway:

Screencasts can be used for describing a step-by-step process, explaining a particular concept/idea, or presenting a PowerPoint presentation with narration and multimedia elements. They will bring you a lot of advantages in delivering the high-quality customer service. Customers are willing to pay more for a better experience, don’t forget that!

Download ActivePresenter today, and create your own videos. Known as one of the best screencasting, video editing, and eLearning authoring tool in the market, ActivePresenter will make you love your customer service job much more.