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How About Adding A Live Chat On Your Site?

03/25/08 | by Webmaster [mail] | Categories: Design

A large number of smart online retailers are adding live chat features on their websites. Letting customers chat to your representatives online for free has a number of advantages. For one, you end up increasing customer trust and loyalty because the customer is bound to return again and again if he knows that help is easily available and just a click away. Many retailers end up increasing their conversion rates by connecting on the spot to customers through their live chat features and handling pre-purchase qualms and questions on the spot. This helps in closing sales instantly. Customers who know that online help is available even during the purchase decision-making process recommend such sites to other people, leading to an increase in both traffic and sales.

Having an online chat feature on your website does not only increase your revenue, it also saves a lot of expenditure that you would otherwise make in order to connect to your customers and deal with customer queries. A single person can handle several live chats as compared to a customer service representative talking to somebody on a phone. You also end up saving money on telephone calls while still providing live help and support to your customers as and when they want it. Many of the best web designing and web hosting companies provide live chat features free with their services. One such web hosting and designing company is Apollo Hosting which provides a very easy to use and maintain live chat software free with its web hosting services.

Isabel Rodrigues - Works for Apollo Hosting
www.apollohosting.com

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