1. “How IGN Entertainment Increased Self-Service Rates to Over 90% Using Parature Customer Service Software”Chris Henderson, Senior Manager, Customer Service, IGN Entertainment Bob Rosenau, Director Sales, Western Region, Parature

2. Parature Parature is a global leader in on-demand software (SaaS) for customer service and support Parature enables organizations to: Reduce the cost of supporting their customers Have a 360 view of customer issues Retain their customers Improve customer loyalty Generate more revenue from their base Deliver “great” customer service

3. 800 Customers Across All Industries Gaming and Digital Media Business Services Technology Healthcare Associations Education 3

4. The Customer Has Never Been More Important! In light of sales teams selling less - organizations are focused on: Customer retention Customer upsell and cross sell opportunities Lifetime value of a customer Overall revenue from the customer base

5. Service Has Become A Major Differentiator Improving the customer experience Multi-channel support Providing support in the manner by which the customer wants it Reducing customer effort Delivering on the promise of first contact resolution The result is reduced frustration Increasing customer loyalty By reducing customer effort you increase customer loyalty Increased loyalty is a game changer

6. Parature: An Integrated Support Suite CUSTOMER TOUCH POINTS SERVICE DESK Delivering Multi-Channel Support For your CSR’s to Manage All Customer Interactions Metrics &Reports Deploy Surveys Feedback Chat Ticket ? Forums Your CSR Downloads Mobile Your Customer E-Mail Knowledge-base and FAQ’s 360º Customer History Intelligent Workflow Phone Service Desk 6

7. Helping Customers Help Themselves

9. Program auto-responses for repetitive inquiries

10. Establish an integrated internal knowledge base

11. Manage tasks and time-based alerts to ensure adherence to SLA thresholds

12. Report upon CSR productivity

13. Incorporate customer data to ensure “One View of the Customer”

14. Collect and analyze customer feedback

15. Integrate ticketing data with customer records and chat windows

18. Your Customers can get Support right on your Facebook Fan Page.

19. Your Customers can share their positive support experiences through their friend’s streams.Confidential - Parature

20. IGN Customer Service Great Service within the budget. Customer Service in a growing marketplace needs to keep the costs of support down while increasing the level of customer satisfaction. See how IGN aligns Great Customer Service with a budget that suits business needs. Presenter: Chris Henderson chenderson@ign.com

21. 12 Who is IGN Entertainment? IGN Entertainment is a network of sites in the video game entertainment industry. We provides sites and services as well as digital product. We offer subscription services and ecommerce retail sites for Digital Distribution. We capture one of the top concentration of men ages 18-34 online*, driving over 37.2MM unique views and 532MM page views each month with leading sites including IGN and AskMen. For millions of guys, we have cemented our reputation as an authoritative voice on games, entertainment and men's lifestyle by delivering sharp opinions and ground-breaking visual content. You might have caught a few of our brands on the first slide footer:

23. What powers support:

24. Queues that make sense of priorities.

25. Ticket Actions – Efficiency is key!

26. Routing Rules that do all the work.

27. Time Sensitive Alerts (TSA) that act as additional staff.

28. Tracking and reporting – Find out what works and what doesn’t.13

29. 14 Design for Success Does your support site look like your brand or is it a generic looking place that is cold and unfamiliar? Does it immediately welcome customers and offer easy to use features? Branding is important. Your customers feel connected to you and not pushed to a third party.

30. 15 Design for Success Is your support site easy to use and customer friendly? Most customers do not want to read, they want a person to help them. Do you offer them an alternative and entice them in to your support?

31. 16 Design for Success Give customers what they need. Articles that make sense and are worth looking at. Pictures do speak a thousand words! Be creative. Use as little text as possible. We don’t use links, we use buttons! Buttons are more likely to get a click than a text link. Pictures that give direction and point out what the customer should see are much easier to follow than paragraphs of words.

33. Custom Work Flows

34. Routing Rules

35. Auto responders

37. 19 Powered by Parature – Custom Work Flows Ticket Actions are what help your CSRs work efficiently and dictates how that ticket is routed. At IGN use a unique method for handling these. We use a “solved status” and “reopen” to take the ticket out or bring it back in to queues. Many customer service teams keep all tickets open until closed. If you do this, you are forcing your CSRs to manually recheck each ticket for a response when there may never be one. Let Parature do the work and let your CSRs work on truly “open” tickets. These are samples of our Ticket Action buttons. The first are Admins only, the second is what a CSR sees. These are custom actions for our specific needs.

38. 20 Powered by Parature – Routing Rules After Custom Work Flow, the most important thing you will do is write routing rules with auto responders. This is how you reach your customer that didn’t choose to read but whose issue is simple without using CSR time. Some important tips: Clearly state “This is an auto response”. Don’t insult your customer or try to trick them into thinking a CSR responded. Be brief. In your auto response point to the articles your customer *should* have read. Too long and they won’t read your auto response either. Keep your roadmap in mind as you route these into certain queues. (roadmap sample in upcoming slide) MOST IMPORTANT: If you have this auto response go to solved status, prompt your customer to respond immediately if the answer did not help. Customers need to know you think this solves their issue and if not, they need to reply. (more on this in the next slide)

40. Prompt customers to come back and give us feedback.

41. To send a warning a customer that we are about to close their ticket due to lack of response.

42. To move tickets using a timer. Example: Reopened tickets over 6 hours old are moved into a PRIORITY queue.

43. Up to the minute communication without needing a CSR to take action. Such as setting a TSA to communicate to a group of customers based on criteria. The TSA will respond to them all if you set it to.** TSAs can be set by almost any criteria. Based on ticket fields, key words, anything in your system. You can customize TSAs for specific customers, issues, whatever you choose.

44. 22 Ticket Management - Roadmap

45. 23 Feedback and Reporting We’ve covered the action items that power your support. Now you need to know if they are effective and what you need to improve on. Reporting is the most comprehensive way to find out. This is not a lesson in how to run reports though. What we want to impress upon you is the importance of using reports to know where you fail your customers and where you succeed. For example, customer feedback: We track what customers think and what we can improve on as well as how we are doing week after week.

47. Do CSRs need coaching on efficiency in their work flow?

50. User Friendly

51. Brand Aware

52. Easy and inviting to use.

53. Behind the scene:

54. Queues that help your CSRs work more efficiently.

55. Ticket Actions that route “no brainers” into solved status.

56. Routing Rules that make sense to customers.

57. Time Sensitive Alerts (TSA) that keep the communication open.

58. Reporting – knowing what does and does not work and making appropriate adjustments. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me: chenderson@ign.com

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