Cheat Sheet for Live Chat Operators

Customer Service Cheat Sheet for Live Chat Operators with Examples of Responses

Chat etiquette plays a huge role in customer service. Professional and authentic interaction with clients goes far beyond the opportunity to make a sale. It helps to build a lasting relationship with the customer, inspire future communication and create fans and advocates of your brand.

How to treat the customer to be able to appreciate all these benefits and escalate your service to a more professional and human level?

Customer service training is the most important part in achieving these goals.

Professional line of communication is not that obvious to expect your service agents to get at it intuitively. It is especially true with new employees who often need help finding the proper style of communication which would stick with your business objectives and allow them to maintain their authenticity.

Below are some guidelines on how a service agent can best handle the major key points in a live chat conversation.

1. How to start a chat

Use a proper greeting. It may sound very basic, but actually not everyone does it right. Greeting is important, as it sets the tone for the whole conversation.

Quite often the service agents fall into one of the two extremes: either their greeting is too short and informal, or too long and formal, both of which betray the lack of respect and concern for the customer.

Greeting should be professional, while remaining friendly and personal at the same time. A good example would be:

“Hello John, thank you for calling Provide Support. How may I help you?”

Or you can start with a shorter but more personal greeting:

“Hello John! How are you doing?”

I am personally a fan of this one, as it works really well. Many customers are actually surprised with this question, in a good way. Probably because support elsewhere rarely ask them this question. It instantly sets the rep on friendly terms with the customer and the conversation becomes less formal and template based while keeping a business tone.

After the customer confirms his wellbeing you can move on with:

“Perfect, I am really glad to hear that! How may I help you today?”

or you can express your sympathy if the customer is not doing well:

“I am really sorry to hear that. Is there anything I can do to help you?”

If the customer starts the chat with a description of his problem, you can respond in the following way:

“Hello Mary. I understand the problem and will be happy to help you. Let’s see what I can do.”

If the customer did not provide his name, you can ask for it. It will show your concern and attention:

“Hello! May I have your name please?”

Once you have the name, make sure to spell it correctly.

2. How to ask for more information or verify your understanding of the question/problem

To avoid any confusion and a long chat, make sure you understand the customer’s issue before giving your instructions or offering solutions. There are many ways you can ask for clarification politely:

“Let me check that I have this right…”

“Let me see if I have this correct, you want me to…” or “You would like for me to…?”

“If I understand you correctly…”

“Tell me more about…”

“So you are saying that…correct?”

“This is what I understand you are telling me…”

3. How to say “I don’t know”

If you don’t know the answer to the customer’s question, be frank about it, however, avoid using the too straightforward “I don’t know”. Here’s how you can play it out nice:

“That is a good question, let me find out for you.”

“I’m not sure, but let me find out for you.”

“I’m sorry, I don’t have the information on that. May I put you on hold for a few minutes? I will clarify this with our manager.”

“I’m sorry, I don’t have the information on that. May I have your email/phone number? I will find this out with our accounting department and get back to you shortly.”

“I’m sorry, this question would be out of my expertise, but Daniel from the tech support department will be able to help you. Would you like me to connect you with him?”

4. How to transfer

It is no secret that most customers do not enjoy being transferred. So if you have to transfer, do it only when it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, try to find out the information for yourself.

Before transferring, inform the customer why and to whom their call is being transferred.

“Jerry, I am going to connect you with Steve from the shipping department. He will be able to help you with this problem.”

“Jerry, let me transfer you to the marketing department. Steve will be able to answer your question.”

It is also important to notify the person to whom you are transferring the chat, give them the customer’s name and explain the nature of their question or problem.

5. How to put on hold

If you need some time to investigate the problem, ask the customer’s permission to put them on hold.

“Would you mind holding on for a few minutes while I am checking this with our administrator?”

“May I put your call on hold while I am checking your order?”

“Can I put you on hold for a moment?”

On receiving their consent, make sure to thank the customer before leaving the chat. When you are back, thank them again for waiting.

“Thank you for waiting/holding. I have the details of your latest payment, let me send it over to you.”

If you feel resolution of their problem is going to take a longer time, ask the customer whether they would like you to call or email them back rather than waiting on hold.

“Jan, I will need to put you on hold for a few minutes to run a few tests and see if I can reproduce the problem. Would that be ok with you or would you prefer I call/email you back with the details?”

If you’ve been away for too long and the customer has been inquiring about your absence, make sure to apologize to them.

“I’m sorry to keep you waiting. I have managed to reproduce the problem. Here’s what needs to be done to fix it.”

6. How to admit fault

Be direct and clear about the fact that you made a mistake. If it is your personal mistake, say that.

“Rob, I’m sorry, I made a mistake and gave you the wrong price for this item. The correct price is…”

If it is someone else’s mistake, say that it was “our” mistake attributing it to the company rather than to the individual person who is not present in the chat room with you.

“John, I’m sorry, we made a mistake and sent the invoice to the wrong email address, which is why you did not receive it. We are going to resend it now to the correct address and add a few more days to your subscription to make up for our error.”

7. How to say “No”

Saying a blank “No” to the customer may appear quite rude. The best approach is to use the “Compliment Sandwhich”, my favorite tactics which John Rydell beautifully describes in his article “Simple Tips on Having the Hard Conversation”. This tactics is basically about adding two positive statements on either side of a bad one.

For example, if the customer is asking to be connected with a team member who is not available for a chat, you would usually say:

“I’m sorry, Joan is not available right now. May I help you with something?”

First you express empathy that the customer’s desire cannot be fulfilled at the moment – “I’m sorry”. Then you make the actual negative statement – “Joan is not available”. After that you complete your response with something positive, an offer of help – “May I help you with something?”.

You could extend this to deal with more complicated situations. Here are a few more examples.

“I’m sorry, we cannot lower the price for this item any further, but we have a similar product which is priced cheaper because it doesn’t have the built-in face recognition. Would you be interested to take a look at it?”

“I’m sorry, we don’t have this feature at moment. We do intend to add it to our service and we can notify you when it has been done. Would you like to receive an email update?”

8. How to follow up

If you promised the customer to call or email them back, it is desirable that you do that within a 24-hour time-frame, even if you don’t have an answer to their question yet.

“Rob, I just wanted to let you know that we are still investigating the problem. We don’t have a solution yet. I will email you as soon as we have found the bug.”

“Jerry, we haven’t been able to complete the transition of your account yet due to a small database issue on our server. We are fixing this now and hope to have everything ready for you by tomorrow. We will keep you posted.”

If you missed a chat request and have the customer’s contact information, your client will no doubt appreciate it if you follow up with them right away:

“Hello Tom. I’m sorry we have missed your chat. Is there anything we can help you with?”

9. How to handle complaints and angry customers

Start by showing sincere sympathy and understanding, acknowledge the customer’s feelings.

“I am really sorry this has happened. Let me see if I can find a solution to it.”

“I’m really sorry about that. Tell me what happened.”

“I’m sorry you are having this problem. Let’s see if there is anything we can do to help the situation.”

Express your willingness to help commit till you find a solution or compromise to deal with the issue.

“I’m sorry you are not happy with our product/with your purchase. Let’s see what we can do to make things right.”

 “I’m sorry you didn’t receive your purchase on time. Let me find out what I can do to make it up to you.”

“I’m sorry this has happened. I understand your frustration, and I will do my best to help you.”

10. How to deliver on a promise

Sometimes it happens that a customer has been promised something which is impossible to accomplish, either through lack of knowledge or misinformation.

Instead of direct denial “We could not have promised anything like that”, reassure the customer that you are going to verify that which he had been promised and offer him apologies and or make it up to him if there was a mistake.

“Let me put you on hold for just a few moments and verify this information.”

“If I understand you correctly, you were promised… It appears there has been a mistake. Let’s figure out how we can resolve this”

11. How to handle several clients simultaneously

When you have to deal with several clients at the same time do not give the impression that you are rushed. If it is necessary, take the extra time for yourself by telling the customer that you are going to check the information for him and asking him to hold for a few minutes.

The customer is not concerned with slower responses or minor delays, they are concerned with lack of your attention. It is ok to make them wait if you first ask their permission for it.

“Jerry, let me review your transaction history. Please bear with me for a few more minutes.”

If your responses are delayed and the customer enquires about it, never tell them you are dealing with other clients. The customer should always have the impression that he is the only one you are dealing with at that moment. If there are any delays, attribute them to your checking up the information for the client.

“I’m sorry for the delay on my part. I am pulling up your account details. Please allow me another minute. I’ll be back with you right away”

12. How to treat those who contacted the wrong chat

It is important to treat all callers with respect, even if they are not your clients or potential customers. Most people who are contacting you by chat have some sort of online presence and if you are rude with them or reluctant to give them a clear answer, they can leave false negative comments about your company in online forums or on social media. To avoid such situations, make sure to come up with a friendly response to such callers.

“I’m sorry, you have reached the wrong company. This is…, we are not affiliated with…”

If they apologize for having reached the wrong chat, reassure them everything is ok and end the chat.

“No problem. Thank you for your call. Have a good day.”

If they insist that you should still help them, don’t let yourself be trapped into an endless chat, give the user a reason why you cannot help them and close the chat room.

“I’m sorry, we would not be the right company to help you with your question. We don’t deal in…We appreciate your contact. Have a good day.”

13. How to wrap up the call

Ask if you can be any further assistance. If any further action is to be taken, clarify what was agreed upon.

“Mary, is there anything else I might help you with today?”

“John, is there anything else I can do for you? As agreed, I will post a note to our billing department regarding your payment and we will follow up with you on that by tomorrow.”

Thank the customer for calling your chat line. Invite them to chat again. End the conversation with a definite “goodbye” or any other expression which leaves no doubt that the conversation is ended.

“If any other questions arise, please feel free to contact us at any time. Thanks so much for calling. Good bye.”

“Thank you for chatting with us today. Have a nice day. Good bye.”

Who should hang up first? Preferably, let the person calling hang up first. If they forget to close the chat room right away, keep half a minute pause after your last message and then close the chat room.

So there you go. I hope you find these recommendations useful.

Just a quick final tip: you can turn some of these phrases into canned responses in your live chat client and save time to yourself and your operators typing this over.

If you are like myself, rooting for a better customer service around, give a heads-up to this post on social media and share it with your employees and colleagues.

Thank you for making it to the bottom!

Maria Lebed
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508 comments

  1. i am starting tech support job from next week and i truly appreciate your time and effort for posting this blog this really helped me a lot ..excellent post this is what i was looking for
    cheers

  2. I agree 100 % with the cheat sheet strategies indicated in this article.
    I’m a retired customer service representative. Are there any part time live chat opportunities of perhaps 10-20 hours per week.

  3. Thanks for the blog. I truly appreciate your time and effort for posting this blog this really helped me a lot

  6. Hi everyone, I am very thankful to all of you that you guys have alots of ideas & how to handle the diffrent situation on live chat with the customer that you guys expose here with your comments that really motivate and encourage me to handle the chat in enormous way.

    1. Hi Patrick, thank you for your nice feedback to our team. We are really happy to know that our effort helps you in your work. Comments like yours inspire us to share more of our knowledge and experience, thank you very much.

  9. Execellent article for all customer support Reps who have to deal their company clients as valuable and worthy as they should be, to keep the reputation of company higher
    Truly, CS dept. Plays an important role in business
    Thanks for such helpful guidence.

  10. This is a great article for both live chat agents and phone support. I really appreciate your post and hope every business can implement the suggestions you mentioned above.

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  15. Thanks a bunch for the post. I have been working as a customer care executive for more than 4 years. I have practiced the responses in live chat and it gave me positive feedback from the customers and my work has been appreciated in my company. Even if you are unable to deliver customer’s need, be positive & build a rapport with the customer, don’t make the customer feel left out. Providing alternatives in such situation could work in your favour.

  17. thank you soooo much. It was really helpfull for me improve myself to deal with USA clients. I really appreciate you efforts and hope in future you post more than these.

  18. This is really helpful. I am currently working as a customer service representative for a financial company and find the cheat sheets EXTREMELY HELPFUL. Thanks! More power! 🙂

  20. Thank you Maria,I have been undergoing training for chat support and these articles would help me a lot.

  21. Hi Maria, I’m wondering if there are best practices as to how integrate “upselling” product during a live chat?

  25. If customer is asking the repeated question which we have already answered in the same chat, then how do I answer it again? Please give me the different options.

    1. Hello Kavitha. I think the best practice if the customer repeats his question would be to repeat your answer, but rephrase it. If the customer is repeating, it means he does not understand your reply, so you need try to explain the same in different words.

  26. All the comments about handling difficult conversations are excellent and we teach our agents to do exactly that. I am seeking advice on how to end a difficult conversation where all alternatives have been offered and the customer “wants what they want”. We cannot give them what they want and they will go on insisting. A 15 minute chat then turns into a 40 minute chat with other chats abandoned. I have suggested something along the lines of, I do apologize I can’t help you with your request. I have offered many alternatives and they do not seem to be acceptable. That being the case I apologize that I have no solution to your request on this chat line. Possibly someone in one of our stores may have more authority or better alternatives at their disposal. Are there any other issue AI can help you with.

    1. Hello Glen. Thank you for bringing up this question. It is quite a common situation and it is really important to treat this type of customers right. I agree with everything that you have said. In my experience, if the agent indeed has no solution, one must tell it in clear words and give the reason why, explain to the customer why they cannot help. Just saying “I’m sorry, I cannot help you” sounds a little offensive to me. So my suggestion is to stress the reason why rather than the fact of denial, “I’m sorry, we cannot help, because..”, “unfortunately, we cannot meet your request at the moment, because (describe the situation)”. If the customer is not clear about the reason and asking the same question again, the agent can try to explain again in different words. However, if everything is clarified and the customer is being persistent for no reason, the agent can switch to other requests without closing the chat room with the customer. This way they will give the customer to understand that there is indeed no solution to their question without being rude to them. This has some psychological effect on this type of customers. The more the agent continues to try to explain what have already been explained, the more they will persist. It’s as if they are feeding on the attention which is being given to them. So in these rare cases, it is good to create a little more space and time in the conversation.

  27. Thanks so much for this post! This is the most helpful information for me to use at work! I have just started 4 months as a chat representative for cell company and I’ve been having issues with a long chat time, and I think this article will help me keep my chats clear, focused and efficient!

  29. I have just started working on web chat, it has been a baptism of fire for me having had no formal training, your information has been a great help to me, thank you for taking the time and trouble to post it
    Thanks again
    Graham

      1. Hii Maria, the information that was provided by you was really helpfull. This kind of words, sentences to assist customers as an agent means a lot. I am Clint , I have gone through this useful chat wordings for me to use in nearby chat support assistance. Now , I would like you to help me out here that if you or I am a customer with one of the cable providers company, I just would like to know that how to bring in acknowledgement , being friendly , warm discover needs and take in ownership from customer.

        1. Thank you for sharing your experience and voicing your needs, Clint. I will consider your request as a topic for one of the future articles.

    1. Thank you for your feedback. I’m glad the post was helpful. You can connect with me on social media, the links are provided below the post.

    1. Agree with you, thank you. My opinion is, be honest yourself and don’t buy into manipulations.

  35. Thank you for letting me these perfect responses . these are really helpful and awesome. Thanks!

  36. I will be a sales webchat and today is my assessment. Hope I will pass and thank you for all the spills that I can use.
    Thanks a lot! your awesome!

    1. Thank you, Jam. I’m glad to hear the post is helpful. Hope you have passed your assessment.

  37. Thanks so much for this post! This is the most helpful information for me to use at work!
    Really, i love how you shared your experience with others
    Thanks a lot,

  38. I would imagine that having a script like this to go off of would really help provide better service. At least for me I know that I have a tendency to freeze up when people ask me questions. If I was working for customer service I’d probably be making a note of some of these responses that customers may have.

  41. Thank you so much for making this . It really helped me a lot for my upcoming new position which is chat support. I’ve been looking for site/blogs that can give clearly what is the rule of a chat support, and some templates that I could use for my customers defending on the situations. I appreciate you that you did this on step by step. I wanted always to connect with you as I entering my journey as a chat support, is there anything way to connect you always like facebook or email? I am looking forward hearing you soon. Again, thank you!

    1. Thank you very much for your feedback, Jayne. I am happy the post was helpful to you in your work! The best way to connect is to subscribe to our blog, we are sharing all the best tips here. You can also join our LinkedIn Group, we are sharing a lot there too. My personal social media profiles are linked at the bottom of this blog post. Thank you!

  42. Hi Maria,
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    Best Regards,

    1. Thank you for your feedback, Emily! I’m glad you have found our blog useful for yourself.

  43. Hi Maria, nice to see you, I am in customer service team of a sports shoes company, I encountered your this great blog today, it’s great! I visited your website just now, it shows me that there is a plugin which could be installed in OpenCart, I have sent your website to our webmaster just now, we decide to purchase the great service form your company 🙂 Also thanks for you shared me so many great tips of customer service, bookmarked your blog 🙂

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  46. Hi Maria,
    I am a online chat supporter of a marketing company. Your cheat sheet is great for me. Thank for share this awesome post.

    Best Regards,
    Karen

  47. nice to see you, I am in customer service team of a sports shoes company, I encountered your this great blog today, it’s great! I visited your website just now, it shows me that there is a plugin which could be installed in OpenCart, I have sent your website to our webmaster just now, we decide to purchase the great service form your company 🙂 Also thanks for you shared me so many great tips of customer service, bookmarked your blog

    1. Thanks for your feedback, Fred! I’m glad you enjoyed the blog and hope that your customers will love the live chat service on your website.

  48. Hi Maria, nice to see you, I am in customer service team of a sports shoes company, I encountered your this great blog today, it’s great! I visited your website just now, it shows me that there is a plugin which could be installed in OpenCart, I have sent your website to our webmaster just now, we decide to purchase the great service form your company 🙂 Also thanks for you shared me so many great tips of customer service, bookmarked your blog

  49. Hi Maria, nice to see you, I am in customer service team of a sports shoes company, I encountered your this great blog today, it’s great! I visited your website just now, it shows me that there is a plugin which could be installed in OpenCart, I have sent your website to our webmaster just now, we decide to purchase the great service form your company 🙂 Also thanks for you shared me so many great tips of customer service, bookmarked your blog 🙂

    1. Thank you for reading our blog, Kathy. I’m glad to hear it is useful to you in your work. I hope your customers will enjoy the live chat feature on your website.

  52. This is a very helpfull tip for me, because this is my first job ang first chat experience. I wrote down all the tips that surely will help me on my first job in handling costumers on chat. Thank you so much for this tips.

    2. I really like your article, the aspect of this guide is correct, “How may I help you?” that’s exactly what i usually using

  54. Thanks a lot for these helpful tips. I want to get some idea about live chat experience because I had some bad experiences about live chat support executives. After reading your article here I hope these tips will surely help me. I am so positive 🙂

  55. Nice to be here and wanna say thanks a lot for providing this informative stuff which i need to explore. Good to be here and also wanna say thanks for providing me great info about customer care cheat codes for online chat. Nice information. Good to see you.

  59. It’s really true: “Professional line of communication is not that obvious to expect your service agents to get at it intuitively. It is especially true with new employees who often need help finding the proper style of communication which would stick with your business objectives and allow them to maintain their authenticity.”

  61. Thanks a lot for these helpful tips. I want to get some idea about live chat experience because I had some bad experiences about live chat support executives.

    1. Thank you for your feedback, Thomas. If you mean that you would like to try live chat on your website and how interaction is going to work for your customers, you are welcome to sign up for our 10-day free trial and add the live chat widget to your web pages. If you have any questions about that, our support will be more than happy to help.

  63. Great article on Chat. Question: about putting a chat on hold. Our chatters said that using the phrase “on hold” is not the best experience since our consumers aren’t truly on hold (like on a phone call). Is there more Live Chat friendly term than “on hold”?

    1. Hello Rick. You can say “Please stay connected (or “stay online”) till one of our operators is able to assist you”, “Please stay connected. We will be able to assist you in X minutes”, or “All of our operators are busy at the moment. Please don’t disconnect. It will take us just a few minutes to attend to your call”. I think the best line of communication is to honestly tell the customer what they should expect. If you know someone will be able to pick up the call, then it’s safe to ask the customer to remain on the line and don’t disconnect. If the wait time is uncertain, it is better to also mention to the customer that they can leave a message or give them alternative contact methods. Depending on the situation, you can shape your system alerts so that they give the customer a clear understanding of what they should expect and what other options they have.

      As to “on hold”, basically it means asking the customer to wait, so I think it’s not wrong to use it in chat also, especially that in some way the customer remains connected to your chat system as he or she would if they were on a phone call. But I do agree that we are so accustomed to hearing in on the phone that it’s almost awkward to use it when there is no phone involved. At the same time, the terminology in phone and chat communication is so intertwined that, I confess, we almost always name a chat request “a call” )).

    1. Thank you, Natalia. I’m glad to hear it. We all as customers need good agents to chat with us.))

  68. yes, this is the best way to make more conversion by following this steps and chat with the clients. I followed this steps and this is really beneficial for me and i get lot of conversions.
    Thank you for this tips.

  71. Hi Maria,

    I agree with the cheat sheet strategies indicated in your article.
    I’m a retired customer service representative.

    Best wishes to all.

    Masha Winget from London

  74. I just like the valuable information you provide for your articles. I’ll bookmark your blog and test again right here regularly. I’m rather sure I’ll be told many new stuff right here! Best of luck for the following!

  75. Great article, thanks! We are finding more and more people choosing to use live chat rather than calling into our center – it is only a matter of time until we need to add more licenses and operatives!

    1. Thank you for sharing your experience, Andrew! I also find chat more convenient than phone, but I think picking up the phone is a strong habit we all still carry )).

  76. I like that you say that the greeting of a conversation sets the tone for the whole conversation. I agree that if someone has a positive and caring tone, then the rest of the conversation most likely will go well. I’ll have to remember this the next time I am on the phone.

    1. Agree with you, Scott. A contact is established when you greet a person. They feel your mood and are going to react accordingly for the rest of the conversation. Thank you for your comment!

  78. Thanks for sharing this nice guide. We are a Dubai Based tourism company and we have live chat module on one of our websites. I will share this article with our booking team members.

    1. Thank you too, for reading and commenting. Please feel free to connect with us on social media, the links are available on our website.

  88. Customer service agents are most undervalued employees of the company and yet add a lot the customer experience. Thanks for sharing these tips.

  89. This webiste is great for me, I got your website from my friend, he told me I will get many more information after i visit you site. Thank for sharing !

    1. Hello Ronny! Putting a survey together is a creative task of its own. We will perhaps highlight this topic in one of our future articles. Stay tuned, and thank you for reading our blog.

  93. These responses will surely increase customer services. Nice information. The way of saying “i don’t know” is quite impressive for customers.

    1. Thanks a lot for your comment, Avati. I’m happy to receive your feedback and learn that this post is helpful to you.

  98. Pretty good post I just stumbled upon your website and wanted to say that I have incredibly enjoyed reading your blog posts Any way I am going to be subscribing for the feed and I hope to visit your article once again soon.

  99. This blog even though it’s like 3 years old it helps me a ton. I just started a job as a chat agent so I appreciate you for creating this awesome blog.

  116. Thank you for sharing a great information and useful. it really necessary and timely for me at this time. I wanted to share this information with my friends on the social network facebook.Thanks for sharing with us.

  117. I believe that improvement continues and thinking outside the box is always important. The customer is everything to the business. Very good.

  119. Best article on Customer Chat Tips to Reassure and Nurture my Online Customers to better conversion. As per my opinion 50%+ consumers who have used live chat said they would be more likely to purchase again from the merchant who provided the service. Thanks for sharing, i have applied chat service at my startup.
    Thanks
    Here
    PalB [Digital Marketing Consultant]

  125. Thank you. I very much appreciate this post. very helpful and useful. I already included some of the above answers in my predefined messages. Hope you don’t mind 😉

  129. Hi Maria, congrats on writing such an amazing article about Customer Chat Tips!
    I was suprised about the importance of a good live chat suppport and so I am really thankful for your guideline to prevent further mistakes in the future, thumbs up and cheers!

    1. Thank you for reading our blog and for showing your appreciation! I’m very glad you enjoyed the article.

  130. I recently started working as a Customer Service Representative, and although we were taught and trained on the basics of chat etiquettes on the very first week of work, I thought the training still lacks a sense of courtesy. Honestly I felt it was tedious and ineffective. And just to indulge my curiosity, I got on my computer to read on the customary behavior on live chat operators. Surprisingly, all the blogs I’ve read are just as dull as the training I’ve received at work. After a few more clicks, I’ve seen your blog, and I must say this is the most insightful blog I’ve seen about chat etiquette. I like how the blog gives detailed suggestions on what should be said and done, in the most common situation a service representative would be in. I particularly enjoyed number 7, the part on how to say “No”, it made me realize how important the “Compliment Sandwich” technique is, made me think how I can further expand it and use it to my advantage. Number 11, which stated that “the costumer is not concern with the slow responses and minor delays, but with the lack of attention.”, also had me thinking a lot about how to handle the costumers. Overall, I am very satisfied but it left me still wanting more, I would really love to read more helpful write ups like this. Thank you for the tips.

    1. Thank you for such an extensive feedback, Jeneva. It is really helpful to know the opinion of someone is working in the front line and can apply these tips. Thank you for reading our blog also, we will be adding more interesting articles to it for sure, so stay tuned.

  133. This was AMAZING! I loved this article and although I did not read through ALL of the many wonderful comments I love the idea of a support “group”. So we could share challenges and get positive feedback from others dealing with live chat. I’m still a newbie but I appreciate all of this help. Thank you so much!

  138. Hi Maria, congrats on writing such an amazing article about Customer Chat Tips!
    I was suprised about the importance of a good live chat suppport and so I am really thankful for your guideline to prevent further mistakes in the future, thumbs up and cheers!

  139. Thank you very much for writing such a great topic. I really appreciate that. You have described this topic very clearly.. Thank you so much.

  145. Hey Maria!

    This is very interesting to me, Im starting to build a website and also provide a support for my customers. I will read your article with patience and try aplly to my business

    Thanks for sharing!

    1. Thank you for reading our blog, Daniel! I hope you will find some useful tips applicable to your business.

  152. This is one the best article I’ve ever read on customer service ever. In simple words you just clear all the questions which will help us in deal with customers queries. Live chat is way to get new customer for your business if you respond and satisfy them instantly.
    Thank you so much for this informative article !!
    Regards,
    Elin Bly

    1. Hi Elin, thank you for sharing your feedback! I’m glad to know live chat is helping you to create good relationships with your customers.

  153. Thanks a lot for these helpful tips. I want to get some idea about live chat experience because I had some bad experiences about live chat support executives.

  154. excellent piece of information, I had come to know about your website from my friend kishore, pune,i have read atleast 8 posts of yours by now, and let me tell you, your site gives the best and the most interesting information. This is just the kind of information that i had been looking for, i’m already your rss reader now and i would regularly watch out for the new posts, once again hats off to you! Thanx a lot once again.

    1. Thank you for your generous feedback, Apental! I am glad to hear you enjoy reading the blog and you find it useful.

  155. Hi Maria,

    Indeed a very helpful article. We’re a startup in the web hosting industry and we get so many calls from our customers regarding our services. Sometimes they are not happy with our services because something is going wrong with their website and they are not able to access it.

    Handling such customers is a tricky job and this cheat sheet is a real life saver in those situations.

    I really liked the idea to give them a warm welcome and ask them how are they doing?

    Thanks for the tips and I really enjoyed reading your article.

    Regards
    Ninja

    1. Thank you for your feedback and for sharing your experience, Ninja. I am happy to know the post is helping you to deal with some real-time situations.

  159. Wow, this is great article on how to handle clients and all during live chat. Specially the way which you have laid out how to admit our fault is simply amazing. Also there is a big issue since most of us are cannot say ‘NO’ and you have put forward a nice method to say no. Thanks Maria

  161. WO! Great article. One of the best I have read in a long time. Thank you for sharing such great information with us. thanks for sharing with us.

    1. Thank you for your feedback, Praskash. I’m glad the article was useful to you. I hope the live chat feature will be useful to your customers.

  176. Thank you Maria.

    A gold standard article for Chat Services.
    It has been an excellent help in crafting our customer responses.

    1. Jordan, you are welcome to contact our chat support, the button is available on our website. We will guide you on how to add a chat button to your own website.

  185. Hey Maria,
    really Great article to connect with the support team! Really appreciate your awesome work! Hope to see more informative post…

    Keep up the awesome work!

    -Rajinder

  186. Hey, Maria thank you for the script it helping me a lot. If possible can you make more conversations on sales part and handling customer anger related to damaged products and customer non satisfaction. It will be a great help.

    1. Hello Daniel! Thank you for your feedback. I’m glad to know the post is helpful to you. And thank you for your blog suggestion, I will consider this topic.

    1. I’m glad to know you have put the information from the post into practice! Thank you for your comment!

  200. Hi,

    Great article as almost every possible case is taken into consideration while having live interaction with the customer. It requires a skill set to handle a different kind of customers effectively.

    Thank You.

  203. Yes, good point! I agree that both parties need to understand each other to be able to communicate effectively.

  205. Your blog website provided us with useful information to execute with. Each & every recommendations of your website are awesome. Thanks a lot for talking about.

  207. More people in the customer service biz need to read this. Perfect article outlining how to properly handle different situations.

    Thank you!

  209. Thanks a lot for your appreciation, Juliana. I’m very happy to know that the post is helpful and is making things easier for you!

  210. Thank you very much for this article. We have just implemented a chat service and reading this, the is big room for improvement.

    a True lifesaver.

    Thanks a ton!

    1. Thank you for sharing your experience with live chat. I’m glad it is helpful to your business.

    1. Thank you for taking the time to leave a feedback! I’m really glad to know the post was useful to you.

  220. I feel it interesting, your post gave me a new perspective! I have read many other articles on the same topic, but your article convinced me! I hope you continue to have high-quality articles like this to share with everyone!

  223. Giving a nice customer support is the best thing that too on phone or online is a bit tough too. Having a cheat sheet reduces the stress and helps giving the support properly. Thanks for this

  224. Provide the decent client bolster is the best thing that too on telephone or online is somewhat intense as well. Having a cheat sheet diminishes the pressure and helps to give the help appropriately.

  225. This is huge for my business. I always tell my guys that even though we are rough and tough guys by nature or CX has to be great. Otherwise, no one will come back to us!

  228. Useful Information thanks @Maria Lebed for sharing such a beautiful article.It’s really an informative and rich post.I agree with all the points mentioned by you.
    Thanks for sharing!

  231. I have read many other articles on the same topic, but your article convinced me! I hope you continue to have high-quality articles like this to share with everyone!

  232. I have read many other articles on the same topic, your article convinced me! I hope you continue to have high-quality articles like this to share with everyone!

  234. You make a good point that you should ask the customer if they’re all right with you putting them on hold so that you can better look up the needed information. I’d imagine that something similar would also be a good idea if you were using an instant messaging sort of system or email. You’d probably want to say something like it may take me a while to reply. Your article would help any business once they’ve found a multimedia messaging service to use.

  235. I work as a customer support executive in one of the e-com company and occasionally handle chat as well. These are really great tips and can really help me improve my productivity. Thanks a lot for sharing.

  236. Thanks for sharing the article. Really very well explained and relevant to daily customer care chat. These techniques will definitely let me serve my customers better.

  238. Thanks for this awesome post I think Practice active listening skills and Don’t argue or interrupt the customer is a must.

  240. I work as a customer support executive in one of the e-com company and occasionally handle chat as well. These are really great tips and can really help me improve my productivity. Thanks a lot for sharing.

  241. Hi Maria, thanks for sharing such a nice and informative post. With all the technology available for our customers, sometimes a good old fashioned phone conversation is still the way to go. As the nature of contact center work becomes increasingly complex and customer expectations of what constitutes good quality services becomes even higher, the call center Agent’s job is now rarely just reading something off the screen. Live operators have to be empathetic to the customer, use their initiative to solve the issue and remain focused on answering the next call just as effectively.

  245. Wow nice article thanks for sharing the more. you may can check out this website for more . Thanks a lot for the tips and sharing your experience.

  246. Hey Maria,
    Thank you soo much for such an amazing useful website. I came here often and now I’m addicted to you. Your contents are unique and I love them.
    Again thanks for sharing.

    1. Thanks for the pleasant comment! Subscribe to our blog post and keep yourself updated.

  248. Thanks for sharing the article. Really very well explained and relevant to daily customer care chat. These techniques will definitely let me serve my customers better.

  257. Very intersting post , this is very important for those who wants to grow their business. because customer service is the lead role of any company.I like your all post. You have done really good work. Thank you for the information you provide, it helped me a lot.

  261. Wow Maria, there is so much to learn still, even after years of doing this whole blogging thing! I appreciate your expertise and sharing of all of these different tips. I learn something(s) new every single day! Stacie

  263. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful and helpful post with me. This cheat sheet is really awesome.

    Wow Maria, there is so much to learn still, even after years of doing this whole blogging thing! I appreciate your expertise and sharing of all of these different tips. I learn something(s) new every single day! Stacie

    I love your blog and find a lot of your post’s to be exactly I’m looking for. I wouldn’t mind creating a post or elaborating on a lot of the subjects you write regarding here. Again, awesome weblog!

  267. Wow Maria, there’s most to be told still, even when years of doing this whole blogging thing! I appreciate your experience and sharing of all of those totally different tips. I learn something(s) new each single day! Stacie

  270. informative post and these are tips that a customer service officer or chat support room should utilize. Thank for these effective content. Wise to read more new idea and tips from you!

  278. Customer service reps should be properly trained to better serve the customers. While no one wants to talk to a robot, it’s important for the agents to adhere to a specified guideline. They are the voice of the organization and must take a more formal tone when speaking to the customers.

  283. Customer service reps should be properly trained to better serve the customers. While no one wants to talk to a robot, it’s important for the agents to adhere to a specified guideline. They are the voice of the organization and must take a more formal tone when speaking to the customers.

  285. Customer service reps should be properly trained to better serve the customers. While no one wants to talk to a robot, it’s important for the agents to adhere to a specified guideline. They are the voice of the organization and must take a more formal tone when speaking to the customers.

  286. Hey Maria,
    really Great article to connect with the support team! Really appreciate your awesome work! Hope to see more informative post…

    Keep up the awesome work!

  287. Hello, Chat etiquettes have a very important role to play in providing proper and quality customer support. Professional and genuine communication with the customers goes a long way, in fact further than the opportunity to make a sale.

  288. Execellent article for all customer support Reps who have to deal their company clients as valuable and worthy as they should be, to keep the reputation of company higher
    Very usefull article. Thanks linkody ?

  289. Extraordinary article for all client bolster Reps who need to bargain their organization customers as profitable and commendable as they ought to be, to stay with the notoriety of higher

    Exceptionally utilize full article. Much obliged

  291. You have shared a great article. It is really important to initiate chat properly and chat with clients at best, because it is the first stage to make them convert. If they don’t like our chat support then they might not think to buy our product or services and on the other side if a frustrated client get a rough or bad chat experience then that client can ruin our online reputation. That’s why it is really important to handle every chat with care and perfection.

  293. It is really important to initiate chat properly and chat with clients at best, because it is the first stage to make them convert. If they don’t like our chat support then they might not think to buy our product or services and on the other side if a frustrated client get a rough or bad chat experience then that client can ruin our online reputation.

  294. Customer service reps should be properly trained to better serve the customers. While no one wants to talk to a robot, it’s important for the agents to adhere to a specified guideline. They are the voice of the organization and must take a more formal tone when speaking to the customers.

  295. These are all very helpful tips to ensure that the customers will continue to communicate during the live chat until the concerns are already settled. Thank you for this one. it is a great help.

  297. Thank you so much for such an amazing guide on customer service cheat sheet. This guide is really worth a read.
    I am going to share this with my followers, and I’m sure they’ll gonna love this too.
    Thanks again for such an amazing website.
    Hemant

  299. Hey Maria,
    really Great article to connect with the support team! Really appreciate your awesome work! Hope to see more informative post… Keep up the awesome work!

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