Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

September 2020

Webinar: Mailchimp's tips for distributed teams to brainstorm, plan & align better together

Working as part of a distributed team at a large organization is rife with challenges. In this webinar, you’ll hear from three key members of the Mailchimp team – a project manager, UX researcher, and service designer – on how to boost efficiency, creativity, and alignment using Miro’s collaborative online whiteboard.

What is IVR, and how does it improve the customer support experience?

The customer service industry is continually evolving. It seems like every day there’s a new social media platform your agents need to adopt to stay relevant to your customers. The good news is, one thing hasn’t changed: People still prefer a phone call over any other customer support channel. (Yes, even millennials.) If you want to win over your customers for life, you need to offer exceptional over-the-phone customer support.

A guide to customer service reports

The customer service requests your agents field have something valuable to tell you about your customers, product, and business. More than that, the cumulative data produced by your customer service tickets can reveal key insights. But for your business to learn from the information included within all those requests, you need a good method for tracking and analyzing them.

How Freshworks solves customer problems

Freshworks is extremely passionate about customer happiness and we love resolving customer problems quickly. Our customers create tickets when they face a problem or want a question answered. This article talks about how our support and engineering teams from one of our core products work together to solve these problems quickly and create moments of wow for customers. How we handle tickets

Mattermost integrations: Requesting data with slash commands

In the first two installments in this series, you learned you learned how to send alerts with incoming webhooks and request data with outgoing webhooks. In this article, you will learn how to set up a slash command. Slash commands are very similar to outgoing webhooks and even a little more powerful. To show their power in action, let’s find out how to use slash commands to request the temperature of a specific refrigerator.

Part 2: Helping Companies Build Stronger Customer Relationships

In November of this year, CIO Review will feature TeamSupport as a Top 20 CRM Solution. They sat down with TeamSupport co-founder and COO Eric Harrington to talk about customer support in the time of COVID and building strong customer relationship in Part 1 of this series. CIO Review continues its Q&A with Eric in Part 2 where they discuss current trends and the future of B2B customer support.

Press F1 for Content Sensitive Help in M-Files | Intelligent Information Management System

You can access the help documentation anytime M-Files is active by pressing the F1 key on your keyboard. Opening the user guide via F1 adds the advantage of directly accessing a topic that is related to what you are doing at the moment in M-Files.

ARC DS - The complete solution for managing LIBOR reform

LIBOR, the widely-used interest rate benchmark, is being phased out. This global move to Risk Free Rates has a wide-reaching impact and a fast-approaching deadline. Before the end of 2021, you need to remove any reference to LIBOR that exists within your active financial products or contracts. We have a solution to help you find the documents, make the necessary changes, and facilitate client outreach.

Asana tips: 4 ways to reduce manual work

If you had to guess, how much time do you think you spend on manual work? Looking back, it doesn’t alway feel like a lot, because “manual work” can take so many different forms: setting up documents, routing work, creating reports—the list goes on. But manual work is a huge contributor to work about work, the busywork that takes up 60% of every workday.

The 5 Sources of Digital Transformation Failure

At its core, a digital transformation is all about taking the business you have today and helping it evolve into the organization you WANT to be running tomorrow through a newer and more innovative approach to technology. It’s a way to modernize your infrastructure, improve user experience, and create a bold new company culture — all at the exact same time. It is possible to get this all wrong, however, and the results could be disastrous if you’re not careful.

How to be customer obsessed

We’ve all heard the stories of companies going above and beyond to provide their customers with incredible support: Some of these stories are heart-warming. Some are inspiring. And some garnered good PR and attention on social media. One thing they all have in common, though: None of them is scalable. No restaurant could afford to deliver an airport steak to its entire customer base. And while giraffe bread hit the mark, it wouldn't be advisable for companies to take every branding suggestion.

Part 1: Helping Companies Build Stronger Customer Relationships

In November of this year, CIO Review will feature TeamSupport as a Top 20 CRM Solution. They sat down with TeamSupport co-founder and COO Eric Harrington to talk about customer support in the time of COVID and building strong customer relationships. CIO Review: In your interactions with customers, what sense do you get of the challenges they face now in the CRM space and how is TeamSupport effectively addressing these issues?

Workativ Assistant Webinar - Automate employee 'time off' requests workflow

Enable HR AI Self-Service: Let employees apply for leave requests using Intelligent HR Chatbot with process automations. In this live demo, we delve into how you can effectively use an intelligent HR Chatbot for employees to raise leave requests. Workativ provides out-of-the-box process automations that connect with several HRMS system to make this possible. What's more? Do it right from your Slack or Teams.

Workativ Assistant Webinar - Set up auto-resolution of 'password reset' requests

Workativ Assistant  is a cognitive workplace automation SaaS platform designed to transform the way companies provide IT support to employees. To reduce helpdesk and IT support costs, Workativ Assistant  helps companies purpose-build a Digital Virtual Assistant with out-of-the-box automation capabilities to help employees self resolve repetitive issues and service requests autonomously without the need to contact Helpdesk. 

Customer facing roles 101: everything you need to know

Any type of career a person chooses will require developing a relevant skill set. Sometimes it’s largely a matter of gaining a pertinent body of knowledge—doctors need to learn as much about the health and medical fields as possible, for instance. People who choose to work in customer-facing roles have to learn a set of skills that are as much about honing personality traits as learning facts. Working with customers can be immensely rewarding for people who enjoy helping others.

Why customer courtesy matters (and 8 tips on how to nail it)

When someone tells you they spent hours on the phone with customer service, it’s usually a horror story. We all know the tropes of the genre—torturously long waits, endless transfers, inescapable hold music... But at Zendesk, some of our support agents take pride in their longest customer calls.

Support for ESR 5.19 is ending soon

As of October 15, 2020, Mattermost Extended Support Release (ESR) version 5.19 is no longer supported. If any of your servers are not on ESR 5.25 or later, upgrading immediately is required. With our simple upgrade steps, it takes only a few minutes. Extended Support Releases are releases that will receive backports for high severity or high-impact security fixes for the length of their lifecycle.

Employee onboarding through workflow automation and AI chatbot - Webinar by Workativ

Provide an excellent onboarding experience for employees through workflow automations and AI chatbot from Workativ. Many businesses are being bogged down with manual work that can be handled through automation. Automation can help reduce the time and efforts on low-level tasks and repetitive tasks for HR Teams, IT Teams and Helpdesk Teams. By not automating, these teams ultimately waste a significant amount of time and therefore money.  

Creating clarity through goal setting: Five experts on OKRs

In the past six months, the world—and work—has changed dramatically. Priorities have shifted, teams that once sat together everyday are distributed, and ways of operating are different. As an organization, how do you maintain alignment between people and teams in this new environment? How do you sustain clarity about what your goals are and how to achieve them? Objectives and key results (OKRs) are one way of creating clarity in an organization.

What omnichannel really means

High performing customer experience teams are more than twice as likely as underperforming teams to be taking an omnichannel approach, according to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends Report, 2020. Yet Zendesk findings also revealed that only 35 percent of Benchmark companies have an omnichannel strategy in place. This gap represents a sweet spot where businesses can rise above their competition and differentiate on the basis of customer experience.

The contact center and customer service

A contact center and a call center are essentially the same thing, right? Well, yes and no. Call centers only field phone calls, whereas a contact center offers a variety of other ways for customers to reach out for support: email, chat, self-service, messaging apps, and social media. Why is it important to understand the difference? While a call center might work for your business, chances are your customers will be better served via a contact center.

Everything you need to know about customer value

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase customer value? You might think about money—giving customers a good price for a quality product. And 20 years ago, you’d have been right. But today, customer value encompasses much more. Today’s buyers don’t just care about a product’s price or even its quality. They also prioritize brand experiences.

Part 2: How Artificial Intelligence Is Affecting the B2B Customer Support Sector

The main focus of B2B companies is to offer unmatched support to their customers. Failing to do so will increase the likeliness of customer churn and also damage their reputation.That’s why an increasing number of businesses are leveraging AI every year to enhance their brand and provide a level of support required to stay competitive. In Part 1 of this series we introduced the first two of five ways AI is impacting the B2B customer support sector. Here are next three ways.

Automated OneLogin Just-In-Time User Provisioning through Workativ Assistant

Internal support teams receive an average of 492 tickets per month (Zendesk). 69% of internal support tickets are resolved in one touch (Zendesk). It takes an average of 24.2 hours to provide a first response to an internal support ticket (Zendesk). Given that 69% of internal support tickets are solved in a single communication, a first response time of 24 hours seems high. It suggests that internal help desk teams may be too busy to respond to queries quickly.

Zoho People Integration and Workflow Automation | Workativ

Statistics show 88% of HR teams consider employee engagement a strategic priority for their organization. Employee engagement is a workplace method designed to improve an employee’s outlook on the company and invest emotional interest in the organizational goals. If the right employee engagement methods are used, employees will be ready to push their limits and work towards the organizational goals, driven by a sense of personal interest in their work.

Integrate LastPass with Workativ Assistant and Automate User Provisioning

Did you know that 50-60% of today’s organizations still rely on manual Identity Access Management (IAM)? While password management technologies like LastPass enable administrators to provision and monitor users across IAM applications, it requires admins to manually change these factors for each individual within the organization. This system can lead to lapses in access restriction and ultimately large losses in time, money, and security.

Quick Intro Tour - Troop Messenger

Troop Messenger is Team Collaboration and workplace communication platform. A two-way team communication SaaS-based application helps people to connect, discuss and share work across a single and smart user interface. Alongside Software as a service (SaaS) , It also come up with APIs and On-premise Edition to serve Large Enterprises, Defence Organizations and Governments.

How to use Jira Software & Confluence Cloud together

Did you know that 76% of Jira Software customers said they shipped projects faster after adding Confluence? Go deeper on features and integrations for managing agile projects in Jira Software & Confluence Cloud that are guaranteed to set your team up for success. Jira and Confluence product marketers walk you through how to take advantage of workflows, templates, reports, and more to organize your team and collaborate efficiently. They also share tactics for helping your team reach their full potential on Jira and Confluence as you grow.

How to increase remote team alignment with Goals

Chances are, your company and team priorities have changed since the beginning of this year. And you’re not alone—45% of global companies say their goals have changed at least once since moving to remote work. Without a clear communication strategy, it can be difficult to know how these new priorities impact individual work. Communicating team goals and aligning as a team is already hard to do when you’re working together in the same office.

Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks

In a previous article, you learned how to receive data from an external source. In this article, you learn how to send a request or data to an external source using outgoing webhooks. As you learned from the first article in this series, we already receive alerts in Mattermost when the temperature of our fridge is too high. But what if we want to send a request to our fridges to give us the current temperature?

7 Things to Consider When Integrating Your Helpdesk and Project Management Software

Businesses are always looking for the best ways to accommodate their customers’ needs. And in this fast-paced world, they should be able to satisfy customer demands as soon as possible. Fortunately, there’s technology to help you with that. In a joint study by Avanade and Sitecore, 52% of businesses use technology to help deliver better customer support operations. As the world gets increasingly digital, service providers should deliver support through these channels.

Transform Enterprise Collaboration with a Start Up Mentality

Can Wang, Sr. Product Designer, Enterprise at Upwork, will share why having a start-up mentality can improve cross-functional collaboration and build stronger design partnerships within the Enterprise organization. Miro is an online collaboration whiteboard platform. At Miro, we’ve built a platform for modern work, enabling collocated, distributed, and remote teams to communicate and collaborate across formats, tools, channels, and time zones — without the constraints of physical location, meeting space, and whiteboard

Top 5 Strategies for Effective Organizational Communication

Effective organizational communication is crucial for any successful business. Not only will it lead to more effective outcomes, but it will also help to boost employee engagement, collaboration and workplace satisfaction. Organizational communication refers to all types: from verbal to written, from formal to informal. Making sure that you have an effective strategy is key to helping your business thrive. Here are 5 key strategies to help you improve your organizational relationships.

Part 1: How Artificial Intelligence Is Affecting the B2B Customer Support Sector

We’re lucky to be living in an age where technology is constantly evolving. Among all the innovations that have developed throughout the years, artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs that has ever happened to mankind. Ever since AI came into existence, it has been significantly impacting various sectors, including contact centers and the B2B industry.

Courier Live: Sending notifications from a Jamstack site

Paul Chin, Jr from Begin joins Aydrian and shows him how to use Begin to stand up a simple website with a form to send to Slack & SMS using Courier. Click "Show More" to jump to key moments in the video. Courier: The smartest way to design & deliver notifications. Design once, deliver to any channel with one API. Begin: Effortlessly ship web apps & APIs on AWS

The 3 Most Important Factors of Productivity (and How to Improve Them)

Looking to improve the productivity levels at your organization, but not sure where to start? Your employees’ productivity depends on a variety of factors, and you can’t pin it down to just one or two aspects. Unfortunately, you can’t afford to leave out any of these factors either, or else you’ll have an inaccurate picture of employee productivity. But don’t worry. In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the factors of productivity.

How to make virtual meetings count with Asana's Meeting Manifesto

Whether we’d like to admit it or not, meetings are a fact of work life. When conducted consciously, they can be a highly effective tool for sharing ideas or making decisions. Unfortunately too many of us have experienced “bad” meetings, the kind that turn into a laundry list of status updates rather than a productive meeting of the minds. So what’s a team to do when the best way for them to align is to meet in real time?

How to anticipate your customer needs and solve them

People don’t generally open their wallets to spend money without getting something in return. Even when making a donation, there’s an incentive like feeling good or connecting to a cause. To be successful, businesses need to tap into unmet customer needs and offer solutions. Sounds simple — but how do you actually find out what’s on your customers’ minds?

Why Cloud 100 startups are investing in CX

This year we’ve seen an unexpected acceleration of cloud and software companies, driven by the sudden shift to remote work. In particular, business-to-business (B2B) software is “having a moment,” and the trend seems likely to continue. In this context, the announcement of this year’s Forbes Cloud 100 List takes on a new significance.

Tips for teachers: using an online whiteboard for remote classes

In March 2020, I had to transition four business classes with over 150 students to a fully online experience, due to COVID-19. Since the class simulates a business environment, I knew I could interact with my students the same way I interact with remote corporate teams, through clear and timely communication. In this post, I’ll go over what worked for me, and give some tips for how you can set your own classes up for success in a remote environment.

How to thrive in the next normal of distributed work

Some companies are struggling to keep up with our new normal. Research from Asana reveals nearly half of employees surveyed globally said company-wide goals had been deprioritised since remote working began, with 47 per cent saying those goals have changed at least once during that time – and 60 per cent haven’t increased communication on such issues. “I think the current new normal is coping,” says Alex Hood, CPO of Asana. “The next normal is thriving.”

How to Get Your Executives' Blessing for Your Information Management Project

If you had to make a list of some of the major reasons why an information management project might fail — particularly those that are a part of full scale digital transformations — a lack of executive buy-in would undoubtedly be right at the top.

Improving performance (and more) through load testing

Have you ever wondered how many active users your application can handle at the same time? If so, you’re not alone. Here at Mattermost, we’re building a highly concurrent messaging platform for team collaboration that needs to potentially serve up to several thousands of users simultaneously.

Asana tips: How to get from request to deliverable, fast

Read this article in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, or Japanese If your team has a work intake process, then you know how challenging it can be to manage requests in a timely, effective, and headache-free manner. In addition to making sure you get all of the information you need to complete the request, you also want to make sure every ask gets handled in the right order, and that no task gets lost in the shuffle. Luckily, there’s a better way.

A business's guide to customer reviews

Customer reviews have become a key step in the customer journey, with a whopping 95 percent of customers reading reviews before making a purchase decision. Customers always had the power to recommend (or discredit) a brand to their friends or family. But being constantly connected has given them greater ability to influence many other customers' buying decisions as well, whether they’re posting a Tweet or writing a Yelp review.

60 Kick-Ass Team Communication, Collaboration, and Productivity Quotes for the Goal-Oriented Entrepreneurs!

Business communication quotes. Productivity quotes. Quotes on team collaboration. Do you read these phrases and yawn? Well, that won’t happen in this article. Instead of being a bore with all the ‘famous’ communication quotes, we plan to inspire you with the words of wisdom shared by the best of the entrepreneurs, world leaders, and experts who excelled in their fields.

Part 3: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes, and about the evolving role of B2B customer support. We conclude this series with customer support versus customer success.

6 Tips on How to Choose the Right Artificial Intelligence Software for Your Company

Artificial intelligence software has gone a long way in recent years, from being an ultramodern potential to a day-to-day reality. A lot of organizations nowadays are using some AI solutions while others are on the trial stage of adopting. There are various types of artificial intelligence software, and AI is being applied in various technologies, particularly in the help desk industry. According to experts from Business Insider, 80% of businesses will want chatbots by 2020.

Case Study: Healthcare Provider Cuts their Paper-Pushing Time by 20% to Spend More Time with Patients

The world’s healthcare workers have taken center stage in 2020, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The work they do to keep patients healthy is tough work — hallmarked by long shifts and lots of information to digest and record. Anyone in the healthcare space will attest to the fact that managing information sits at the center of their work. They need to access patient information, process insurance claims, record new patient information, among tons of other document-related work.

In an uncertain world, knowledge is power

As we continue to navigate the impacts of COVID-19, businesses and customers alike are recognizing that knowledge is power. Information, resources and instructions—the kind of knowledge typically provided on company help centers and FAQ pages—can help keep the world moving even when so much remains unknown. The only thing we know for sure is that the world will keep changing, and no matter what happens, you’ll need to keep your customers informed.

3 hidden costs of Freshdesk: Why low license fees can be deceptive

When choosing a customer service solution, there are many factors to consider, and let’s face it — cost is high among them. Freshdesk says you’re saving money on their low license costs, which is a part of the total cost of ownership, but there are big trade offs to know about. Here are the top three things you should consider.

Mattermost joins Red Hat, GitHub and Google in the CVE Program to maintain an international, open data registry of security vulnerabilities

Mattermost is joining Red Hat, Google, and GitHub and over 130 other leading technology organizations authorized to be a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority (CNA) by the CVE Program. The world’s most privacy-conscious enterprises and governments rely on Mattermost’s self-hosted, open source collaboration platform to keep their most vital communications safe and sovereign.

12+ Slack Games And Apps For Remote Teams (2020)

Trying to find ways to inject some fun into your remote team’s work days? With COVID forcing employees to adopt remote working, communicating with teams via apps like Slack and Zoom has been on the rise. But staring into a computer screen all day without any work colleagues around can take a toll on an employee! So, what can you do to help your team have a bit of fun? How about trying out some Slack games?

Part 2: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduced the concept of how to position the investment in customer support as a strategic value aligned to current business practices and target outcomes—based on the whitepaper co-produced by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport. Now in Part 2, we’ll talk about the evolving role of B2B customer support.

Why Distrito moved from Slack to Rocket.Chat (and any startup community should do the same)

Supporting 250 startups from Brazil, Distrito is an innovation platform that helps startups to succeed and support the digital transformation of Enterprises. Their mission is to uplift startups through a Strong Innovation Ecosystem focused on Community, Leap, Venture, and Data Mining. In order to bond their ever-growing startup community and manage their team of 140 people, implementing a comprehensive communication tool was not only a necessity but also inevitable.

Productivity vs Efficiency Explained (Plus Tools to Help with Both)

Confused about the differences between productivity vs efficiency? Productivity and efficiency are both crucial metrics when it comes to assessing the performance of your business. In fact, they’re so extensively used that most people use them interchangeably! However, even though they’re closely related, they’re not the same thing.

Add Your Bitrix24 Website to Google

After you create a website in Bitrix24.Sites, the very next step is to make it reachable and searchable by your potential audience and clients. People often search for information, goods and services in different search engines such a Google. You can use Google Search Console to index any website created in Bitrix24.Sites. The website indexation in Google Search Console gives a lot fo benefits to further website visibility and optimization in Google search results.

Are we ready for the next generation of workers?

Millennials were outsiders in the workforce for a long time. It was a big challenge to manage them well. How do you drive them? How can we organise the work environment in such a way that they can thrive? As an established Millennial Coach, I can share with you that the millennials are a precious and highly emotionally intelligent generation that can be steered towards the greatest things. Partially, today's world is that enjoyable due to the brilliance of myriad millennial internet entrepreneurs.

10 positioning statement examples to inspire your brand messaging

Building a great product isn’t enough to stand out in the market. What you need is a compelling message—one that speaks to your audience and is unique to your brand. How do you make sure you’re telling the same story to every customer across every touchpoint? One key tactic is writing a positioning statement.

How to start a virtual call center that provides excellent customer service

You've put in the work to build an excellent call center. You've hired for the right skills, given everyone the best possible training, started tracking your performance, and you've even created a wonderful workplace where your agents can work and collaborate. Then 2020 happened. The COVID-19 pandemic closed offices and sent employees home. As the days away from the office added up, returning to "business as usual" in your call center anytime soon seemed less and less likely.

5 Key Findings of Scoro's Work from Anywhere Survey 2020

The debate about the effects of the recent global pandemic and lockdown is ongoing. Experiences differ, but at the end of the day, we’re still all in the same boat – trying to navigate the new remote work reality. To understand how these events have impacted the industry and our clients, we ran a Work From Anywhere Survey. The results are in, and we’re ready to share the findings with you.

Options, Not Roadmaps

Since Shape Up came out, many people asked some version of this question: I understand you make bets six weeks at a time. But how do you plan in the longer term? Don’t you have some kind of a roadmap? The short answer is: no. We don’t have roadmaps. We think about what to do at the timescale larger than single bets, but we do it in a different way. No matter how you try to hedge it, a roadmap communicates a plan—a series of commitments—to other people.

Kanban Project Management: What You Need to Know About Its Efficiency

If you’ve been collaborating with coworkers remotely, you’re likely familiar with project management systems centered around Kanban boards. After all, they’re one of the most efficient ways to organize your workflow. It’s the sheer efficiency that drove Chanty to develop its own native Kanban feature, but we can talk about that later.

Why you need a customer success manager

It’s easy to think the hard work ends once you’ve landed a customer. In reality, the struggle to win your clients’ hearts is only just beginning. After you make a sale, your business needs to keep showing the customer that your product is valuable. Whether you succeed or not comes down to the team you have promoting your products and growing the customer relationship. That’s where a customer success manager comes in.

How to Build a Dynamic Customer-Focused Culture in Your Company in 9 Steps

“There is only one boss. The Customer.” – Sam Walton Customer focus is not a buzzword that companies throw around to stay relevant in today’s hyper-competitive market. It is a lifetime promise to your customers. It may sound very simple but it involves modifications to your business strategy that places more importance on caring for your customers than simply outperforming your competitors.

Boost Your On-Premise SMTP

Now you can connect an unlimited number of mailboxes to the On-Premise version of Bitrix24! Bitrix24 users may find that they have trouble connecting their own mailbox to Bitrix24 when they first begin working with the On-Premise edition or after migrating from the Cloud version. In Cloud accounts, connecting an inbox tends to be pretty straightforward, but when attempting to do the same in the On-Premise version, users may run into some issues.

How to be a Successful Consulting Firm Professional in a Project-Based Business

By far, the most successful consulting companies are doing more than just operating at high efficiency. They’re actually well-oiled machines, working via a thoughtfully designed infrastructure that allows them to deliver on projects AND engagements in a way that other organizations simply cannot match. Therefore, if you truly want to be a successful consulting firm professional in a project-based business, there are a number of important things that you’ll definitely need to keep in mind.

The Complete Guide to 24/7 Support

Scaling your team to provide assistance around the clock might sound like a mammoth task. However, with a step-by-step guide, you can incorporate a 24/7 support model in no time. That’s why we’ve put together this comprehensive guide on setting up 24/7 customer service. In this guide, we cover: What Does 24/7 Support Mean?

High-trust collaboration: Real-world lessons from implementing Mattermost at scale

Managing the flow of information within an organization can be a daunting task even for small teams. But for large corporations, creating a communication and collaboration workflow to meet the needs of thousands of users—while meeting their standards for security and compliance—can be a huge challenge. So what does it take to maintain secure communication for tens of thousands of users?

The Ultimate Guide To Workload Management

Looking for ways to manage your workload efficiently? Managing your team members and keeping track of their workloads isn’t easy. If you overestimate your team’s capacity or put too many to-do lists on an employee’s plate, things can quickly become messy. Workload management is a technique that can help keep your team performing at their best, even when resource numbers are limited and deadlines are edging closer.

Teamwork Quick Start Guide for Agencies

Getting started in Teamwork is as easy as adding users, creating a project, assigning tasks and logging billable time to create invoices for your clients. This video will walk you through the easy steps you need to take, from adding users, creating a project, getting organized with tasks and logging time as well as creating invoices

What is call listening?

How well is your call center handling customer issues? Metrics like customer survey scores and average hold times speak volumes about your support team’s performance. But even data doesn’t always tell you the full story. To uncover the finer details of your call center performance, you’ll need a headset and a quick tutorial on call listening, or call monitoring.

Team Building Activities To Avoid (And 7 Activities To Do Instead)

Interested in learning about some engaging team building activities? Sure, team building activities are a great way to boost morale, increase collaboration and create a group of tightly-knit coworkers. However, team building activities are only useful if they are informative and enjoyable at the same time. Unfortunately, your average team-building activity doesn’t live up to this. Most team building games are embarrassing, awkward, and a waste of time!

Part 1: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Businesses buy your products or services to help their operations run efficiently and to meet their customers’ expectations. And while robust product features are important, it is the added benefits of B2B (business-to-business) customer support that can accelerate product use and drive optimal performance to help customers reach their full potential. In other words, effective B2B support forms the foundation for long-term successful customer engagements.

What Is Customer Value And How to Build It

Value isn’t measured the same for everyone. It can be found in the price of a product, but it can also be so much more than that. To your clients, the real value of your products may be found in their quality, their uniqueness, their practicality; even the feelings they get when they buy them. So, to your clients, what is customer value? How do you measure it? And, most importantly, how do you create customer value? Let’s find out.

What Is Omnichannel? (And Why It Is So Crucial For Businesses)

What does it take for a business to succeed? Regardless of your industry, lowering the cost of customer acquisition, increasing sales and customer retention are probably among your primary business goals. In a perfect scenario, your business interactions seamlessly acquire new customers, retaining current clients while upselling. However, in today’s fast-paced world, the customer journey has become shorter.

Overview of Advanced Roadmaps UI - Demo Den - Sep 2020

Rhys Christian, a Product Manager on the Advanced Roadmaps team, gives an overview of the new Advanced Roadmaps planning interface for Jira Premium users. Check out this demo to learn more about the main sections of a plan, how to configure the view for your needs, and a brief look into scheduling the Roadmap.

Courier Live: Controlling IoT using the Webhook Provider

Aydrian and Riley use the Courier Webhook provider to connect to a BlinkStick Square when a notification is sent. They walk through setting up a Courier route and websocket event. Click "Show More" to jump to key moments in the video. Riley Napier, Sr. Software Engineer Courier: The smartest way to design & deliver notifications. Design once, deliver to any channel with one API.

What's What at Zendesk: Stay connected in real-time with social messaging

Social messaging has skyrocketed in popularity for customers getting in touch with customer service. It can be hard for companies to think about how to spin up and manage new channels. Our new improvements make it easy to pull the social messaging options customers want into a unified conversation across channels, including chat, email, and phone support. Join Claire Peracchio to dive deeper into Agent Workspace: Social Messaging to see this update in action.

How to Measure Employee Productivity in the IT Industry

Want to learn how to measure employee productivity in the IT industry? It’s no secret that measuring employee productivity is one of the hardest things to do these days. As there are so many variables to keep track of, determining how well an employee is performing can be a very confusing process for most businesses. And when you’re dealing with the IT sector, this can become even more challenging! But don’t worry.

The ultimate guide to a successful discovery call

Have you ever asked someone for their phone number but then stressed about that first call? It can be daunting to pick up the phone and call a stranger, but it’s the only way to get to know someone. Discovery calls are the same way—somewhat daunting, but critical to building relationships with leads. They’re your chance to get to know the prospect and introduce them to your business.

How Self Organization Impacts Work Results

Being organized and having a work ethic may increase the productivity of your performance. It also helps reduce stress and tensions at work because you have everything planned out, and you deliver top quality services. But what are the most important elements of self-management at work? And, most importantly, how do your organization techniques impact your performance. In this article, you’ll find key aspects of self-organization along with some tips to become better at planning your work.

The definitive guide to contact center as a service (+ the 5 best CCaaS providers in 2020)

We get it. Running a call center is hard. Between the endless inbound calls and technical hiccups, managing a call center tests your patience and persistence. The good news is you can make things easier on yourself with a call center software solution: CCaaS. By 2022, contact center as a service (CCaaS) software will account for roughly 50% of preferred adoption models in contact centers.

Customer Retention Gets Tough. Here's How to Deal With It

If you want your business to succeed, it’s not enough to just bring in new customers over and over again. Yes, new customers are always needed, but if you’re not retaining the customers that you already have, you’ll always be working from a marked disadvantage. That has always been true, but in 2020 it is more true than ever before. A whopping 65% of a company’s business comes from existing customers.

Mattermost Integrations Guide, Episode One: A New Hook

One of the great things about Mattermost is how well it integrates with all the other systems you use. But this flexibility can make it difficult to figure out which integration to use for each purpose. This series will review the various ways Mattermost can connect to other systems to give you an idea of what is possible and when to use what method.

Why Remote Collaboration is more than just Communication

See why adopting Slack just isn’t enough for your remote workflow. Talk is cheap— except when it’s getting in the way of productivity, as then it becomes rather wasteful. The most common mistake when working remotely is to think that discussion is the same thing as collaboration, when in reality it’s only one component of it.

How COVID Exposed Digital Transformation Leaders and Laggards

Almost overnight, COVID-19 amplified a performance gap between those companies that invested in technology innovation at scale before the pandemic and those that did not. It turned a performance gap into an abyss. The task now centers around how to hasten this kind of digital change during a crisis, even as many are falling behind. To persist and succeed, organizations of all sizes across industries will need to employ a new strategy with information management solutions as a centerpiece.

OneDesk for VARs & System Integrators

Learn how you can utilize OneDesk's helpdesk and project management features for Value Added Resellers (VARs) & System Integrators. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

Asana tips: Four ways to master My Tasks

Do you use your My Tasks in Asana? If not, you might be missing out on one of the easiest ways to reduce work about work. Think of My Tasks as your home base. In this view, you can see all of the tasks that are assigned to you, no matter what Team or project the tasks live in. In conjunction with your Inbox, My Tasks is designed to help you focus on and complete all of your high-impact work.

Chasing unicorns: How the most successful startups handle CX

Every startup dreams of making it big, but even now with so many examples, it’s difficult to pinpoint what exactly gives a unicorn its horn, so to speak. That’s why we decided to study startups, including some who went on to become unicorns. For our Startups CX Benchmark Report 2020, we examined over 4,000 startups to determine whether there was a connection between startup growth and customer experience (CX) investment. Spoiler alert: there was.

Zendesk update: Helping each other to keep moving forward

A lot has changed since our initial COVID-19 update, but we still feel strongly that in order to make it through this crisis and keep our business moving forward, we need to prioritize the wellbeing of our customers, our employees and our communities. We remain committed to keeping our customers at the center of everything we do. That includes investing in both our products and our people.

Slack Time Tracking: The Ultimate 2020 Guide

Using Slack to communicate with your on-site or remote team? Slack is a name that’s synonymous with text-based, workplace communication. But did you know that with the right integrations, you can even track time in Slack? In this article, we’ll first highlight why you should set up Slack time tracking. We’ll also highlight the best integrations that can help you easily track time in Slack.

Part 3: Using Data from Reports to Improve B2B Customer Support

We began this blog series with Part 1 on how to use reports from your B2B customer support software solution to interpret key data and implement strategies as a result. In Part 2 we explored how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not. We conclude this series with Part 3 where we walk you through how to make strategic business decisions based on trends.

All aboard! Rocket.Chat 3.6 is here

The two words that every Rocketeer loves: New Release! In Rocket.Chat 3.6, as usual, we have a lot of exciting new features, improvements and bug fixes to tell you about. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we selected the most important features and listed them below. In this month’s release, all of the features and improvements can be enjoyed by everyone – everything is available on our Community version. *If you wish to view the complete list of updates, click here.

OneDesk- A Quick Walkthrough the App

OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

What is an enterprise help desk, and how does it benefit your team?

When’s the last time you called a major corporation and hung up, thinking, “Wow, what amazing customer service!” Mature enterprise companies often struggle to meet customer expectations. They’re often slow to integrate their customer service software with new support channels and integrations. Partially, this is because legacy brands still rely on the traditional methods they were founded upon.

Mattermost-Jitsi: Open source, self-hosted alternatives to Zoom and Slack

Mattermost and Jitsi—open source, self-hosted alternatives to Slack and Zoom—now integrate! With the Mattermost Jitsi plugin, Mattermost users can now instantly launch secure Jitsi voice, video and screen-sharing calls, either on-prem with the self-hosted Jitsi software or via the cloud with Jitsi Meet.

Gusto - automate Create Employee workflow using Workativ

Modern IT & HR teams use Workativ to transform the way they provide support to employees. To improve employee experience and reduce support costs, Workativ helps companies purpose-build an intelligent & integrated Chatbot with out-of-the-box workflow automation capabilities so employees can self resolve repetitive IT and HR issues and service requests autonomously without the need to contact Helpdesk or HR teams.