While email support is important to customer service, 78% of customers also say they\u2019ve had an overall positive customer experience with chat, and 77% have had a positive experience with customer service AI assistants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Email is still a mainstream mode of customer communication, but that\u2019s changing quickly as technology advances and the demographics of consumers shift to a younger, more tech-savvy generation. Over 2 billion active users a month <\/a>on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have taught us that today\u2019s consumers prefer a messaging interface to email support.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo today, a customer service paradigm that integrates email support with other types of support such as live chat and in-app messaging is critical to reaching and satisfying all of your customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n