Product support

What is Product Support

The word support implies an ongoing relationship. It’s something we provide to our families and friends. In the context of technology products, support is essential not just for customer retention but for a company to keep iterating and developing their product. This is important because businesses today depend on technology products for their daily operations. If they’re stuck on a technical issue with your product, it may affect a significant portion of your business.

Planning

Prices can fluctuate. Markets changes. Products evolve. But if there’s one constant in all this, it’s that support will never be irrelevant. Knowing this, planning for support should be as fundamental to your company as product development. Sumeru global provide support solutions for everything from design to pricing can be determined with support in mind. Invest in a good support system using intelligent software and track how much of your resources go toward support so you can plan ahead without unpleasant surprises. 

24/7 Service

Many hardware and software products need to run 24/7. They don’t shut off after office hours and constant communication between various systems and products is essential. If there’s a technical problem that can’t be resolved within the hour––sometimes even less––it could be frustrating at best and catastrophic at worst.

Response Time

If your product support has a slow response time, or they can’t properly help the customer, you’ll lose them quickly. By contrast, if you gain a reputation among your clientele for promptly solving problems, these customers will be happy with both your product and company. What’s more, they’ll recommend you to others who are looking for a company with good product support.

Competition

As competition grows in the market, chances are you’re not the only company with that product. If there’s an alternative to be found, customers will gravitate toward the company that can give them the best product support because it greatly affects their business.

It’s a Win-Win

As technology gets more and more complicated, so does product support. Today we live in an entire technology ecosystem. To manage this, we need an equally complex network of support systems that are capable of handling intricate technical complications. Building good product support is a win-win for both companies as a driver of growth and customers as a compelling choice over other alternatives.