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5 Ways to Enhance Your E-Commerce Business Using a Knowledge Base

May 25, 2019 By Brayn Wills 13 Comments

Running an e-commerce firm is tough. And multiple factors influence the success equation.

5 Ways to Enhance Your E-Commerce Business with Knowledge Base

In the last few years, the key factors that have emerged include:

  • improved user experience
  • outstanding customer service
  • user-friendly web design
  • top-class feedback management

E-commerce businesses need solutions that can be utilized to scale online operations.

In order to deliver top-notch customer service, knowledge base software is a smart tool that comes in handy for e-commerce businesses.  

To put it simply, the role of a knowledge base is to offer customers and service agents easy access to content that is rich and well structured.

Implementation of such a tool enhances productivity and helps in minimizing unnecessary expenditures.

Table of Contents

  • How Using a Knowledge Base Enhances E-commerce
    • 1. Strengthen Customer Support
    • 2. Customer Experience is Enhanced
    • 3. Enriched Onboarding of New Customers
    • 4. Boosting Web Traffic to Online Stores
    • 5. Mobile-Friendly is Important
  • Conclusion
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How Using a Knowledge Base Enhances E-commerce

Are you contemplating implementing a customer support knowledge base to boost your online store operations? 

Check out these five ways that can do wonders for your business:

1. Strengthen Customer Support

The purpose of incorporating a knowledge base system is to bring about a positive and constructive impact on the customer support division.

Reduced expenses and enhanced customer service are the expected end result.

Customer agents handle tons of support tickets. Give them a knowledge base so they will have more time to focus on issues that cannot be resolved by a smart tool alone.

Dealing with fewer clients means that agents work in a less demanding atmosphere. This results in providing improved service to customers.

Include all issues directly resolved by agent intervention in your knowledge base. Going forward, they will be a ready reference in the future.

Content for the knowledge base has to be constantly updated to keep it relevant to the audience, particularly for e-commerce businesses.

A fully functional knowledge base in place significantly reduces the workload for support teams, since finding information becomes a cakewalk and customer queries are resolved quickly.

This translates into lower costs, too, as businesses are not compelled to employ additional human resources, particularly when operations are expanding.

2. Customer Experience is Enhanced

A vital part of a successful online operation is an effective help desk. A well-compiled knowledge base performs a similar role in maintaining the happiness quotient among the customer base.

In the end, increased customer satisfaction results in boosting the rate of client retention as well.

The knowledge base assists customers with answers to their queries about services and products.

Because it is a self-service platform, unlike a phone call or live chat, it offers a distinctive and engaging user experience whenever a client is seeking information.   

Knowledge base software is context sensitive. Add-ons like pop-ups, light boxes and tool tips give the content a whole new dimension.

With simple search mechanisms and a learning curve in place, customers are encouraged to explore deeper when new services and products are introduced.

3. Enriched Onboarding of New Customers

Customer retention rates are positively impacted when the onboarding of new customers is done in a swift and smooth manner.

To get to this stage, the customer support team has to be fast and accurate in answering queries about products and services.

The solution to this is no doubt, a knowledge base.

When addressing onboarding issues of new customers with a proactive yet sensitive approach, the significance of the tool’s integration becomes absolutely clear.

Besides this, customers can access answers to commonly asked questions that have been published as part of the knowledge base content instead of waiting around for a customer agent’s intervention.

4. Boosting Web Traffic to Online Stores

There is a spike in web traffic to the online store if knowledge base content is well-written and structured.

Specific keywords related to the topic are embedded in knowledge base articles. This helps in boosting search rankings for the articles, making them appear within the top search results online.

It also creates opportunities for new prospects to visit your business help desk.

If new prospects easily find what they are seeking, there’s a good chance that the prospect will continue browsing the online store which may lead to a purchase.

With rich content, visitors will spend more time on your web pages. This also has a positive impact on Google’s search and ranking algorithms.

It is highly possible that providing rich content may result in higher search results for your e-commerce store.

5. Mobile-Friendly is Important

Smartphones can be the device of choice when consumers make online purchases today. Therefore, ensuring that your content is mobile-friendly becomes even more important.

Having a knowledge base that is mobile-friendly is paramount to ensure easy accessibility.

Customer dissatisfaction is minimized significantly by ensuring that their overall user experience is enhanced.

Design your content including images in a manner that makes it accessible on multiple devices regardless of the operating system.

Conclusion

Focusing on these five ways will surely work towards enhancing your e-commerce business. Hitting multiple hotspots in one go, the job of this smart solution is to improve each one of them.

Some points are straightforward whilst others may need a little more time and effort to implement. In the end, what matters is what you aim to get out of a knowledge base.

Implementing a knowledge base is a critical investment towards not only your online business but customer service, too.

It ensures that your customers retain lifetime value to your business with long-term loyalty.

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Brayn Wills currently holds the position of knowledge management manager at ProProfs. He is responsible for creating unique and relevant content on knowledge base tools and keeping track of the latest developments in the realm of knowledge management. In his free time, he is either reading a new book or exploring offbeat destinations. You can catch up with Brayn on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Comments

  1. palpal joshi says

    June 3, 2019 at 7:33 am

    Thanks for providing the solutions of problems which are facing by e-commerce business knowledge base reading.I agree on the mobile experience today, it’s so important as people want to get answers on mobile really fast and you must make it easy with touch to click phone numbers and easy buy now options. thanks for sharing useful information with us.it is important for their people.

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  2. Rahul Gupta says

    June 3, 2019 at 6:20 am

    wow what an amazing article this has helped me alot thanks so much
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  3. Surendra says

    June 1, 2019 at 1:46 am

    All the points you have discussed in this post are really practical ant helpful to enhance E-Commerce business. Thanks for this wonderful post. Keep sharing …

    Reply
  4. riya says

    May 31, 2019 at 1:41 am

    Exactly this is what i am looking for. thanks for sharing this useful information with us.

    Reply
    • Brayn Wills says

      May 31, 2019 at 2:23 am

      Thanks, Riya

      Reply
  5. Sadia iram says

    May 30, 2019 at 6:22 am

    hey brian! why we use knowledge base on a website?
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  6. Marketmen says

    May 30, 2019 at 2:52 am

    Whatever problem solution is here.
    great content dear brayn,
    Incredible tips and straightforward. This will be exceptionally valuable for me when I get an opportunity to begin my site.
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  7. Kevin Balsara says

    May 29, 2019 at 1:45 am

    How to actually build and sustain an e-commerce business can be quite a challenging task. But managing it through the use of a vast knowledge base with something as simple as improving customer support can go a long way eventually.

    Reply
  8. jyoti atoliya says

    May 28, 2019 at 3:56 am

    hello
    thanks for providing the solutions of problems which are facing by e-commerce business .
    knowledge base reading . Efficient learning from these article.
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  9. Lisa Sicard says

    May 26, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    Hi Brayn, Thank you for your tips on this one – I have a new retail website client I’m helping with marketing and having the online chat is a great suggestion. I agree on the mobile experience today, it’s so important as people want to get answers on mobile really fast and you must make it easy with touch to click phone numbers and easy buy now options.
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    • Gail Gardner says

      May 27, 2019 at 1:43 pm

      Hi Lisa,

      Thank you for taking the time to comment. If a client will actually USE Live Chat it can make so much difference.

      People don’t buy when they have questions. If they can get fast answers, they will complete the checkout process. If they can’t, they may just leave and buy somewhere else (or not at all).

      What many small businesses fail to realize is that getting repeat business is as simple as being willing to show your customers how much you appreciate them.

      That means you must interact with them. Live chat is an excellent way to do that. Others are tucking a little note in their shipments or surprising them with a small gift they’re likely to appreciate.

      The #1 reason people change vendors is that they don’t think the company cares if they buy from them or not. When you change that, you build loyalty and end up with repeat business.
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      • Lisa Sicard says

        May 28, 2019 at 2:57 am

        Hi Gail, I love your idea of the small gift in appreciation of a client. Great reminder, thank you! Do live chats work for services businesses as well?
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        • Gail Gardner says

          May 28, 2019 at 8:46 pm

          Hi Lisa,

          The way I know the small gift idea works so well is that I can still remember eCampus.com because they sent me a t-shirt with my first order. And they sent me a nice pen with my second order. That was decades ago and I still remember their name.

          Yes, live chat could be even more important for service businesses than ecommerce sites. That is especially true if what they offer is complicated and potential customers would have many questions.

          I think many sites are afraid to use live chat because they think it will constantly interrupt them. If they have a lot of customers that could happen. But most people will only ask questions if they’re fairly serious about buying.
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