Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Why companies need customer tutorials [+ how to create them]

There’s nothing more frustrating than making a purchase and discovering you don’t know how to use the item you just bought. The situation can be equally upsetting for the business selling a product or service. If a customer doesn’t know how to use it, they won’t see its value—a recipe for churn. This is why customer tutorials are a valuable tool in your company's mix of marketing and customer support content.

8 Customer Service Memes That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

When you work in a high-stress role where conversations are difficult, and work is seemingly endless, you need a dependable source of comic relief to unwind. In this internet-driven world, only one thing comes to mind: memes. A meme has the power to lighten the mood, bring a humorous perspective to tough situations, and dare we say – unite people. At the end of the day, it works best as an expression of opinion that people can relate to and laugh about.

10 Best Customer Service Tracking Software

Customer service tracking software helps organizations collect, manage, and respond to customer support requests. Customer support tools can also gather tickets from various communication channels like emails and phone calls and organize them on a single platform. But with so many customer support tools out there, which one should you pick? Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered.

How Netflix Started: The Inspirational Success Story

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph's in his keynote at Freshworks ON Fest spoke about the value of innovation, persistence, and optimism and the Netflix’s inspirational origin story. On August 29, 1997, two men launched an online DVD-rental store with 30 employees and 925 titles. They called it Netflix. Watch the video to listen to Marc Randolph speak about the corporate culture that made Netflix a success and went on to dominate entertainment streaming.

What is Customer Service Week? +8 virtual ways to celebrate it

Customer service jobs can be tough during normal times, but the pandemic has made things even harder. Over the past year, customer support agents have been dutifully fielding a sky-high number of queries from customers worried about canceled flights, ambiguous insurance conditions, delayed packages, and other urgent and emotionally-loaded issues. Customer engagement has reached record highs all while service representatives have been adjusting to longer hours, new technologies, and remote work.

10 Ways to Align Your Teams for a Service-Optimized Organization - Podcast

In this episode of the Vivantio Vibe podcast, we share with you 10 ways to align your teams and garner support from the boardroom for optimizing your service management platform. Whether you're a C-level leader looking to rally your teams to investigate and adopt state-of-the-industry methods, or a CS/CX manager who needs to win support and resources from the boardroom, it's essential to have a strategy for communicating your vision and advocating for the action and resources required for success.

Personal selling 101: What it is and how to do it well

Customers love to feel special and understood. According to research from Epsilon, 80 percent of customers say they’re more likely to do business with a company if it offers personalized experiences. Additionally, 90 percent indicated they found personalization appealing. Personalization often begins long before a consumer even considers making a purchase.

Do-not-reply emails: Pros, cons, and best practices

Anyone on a support team will tell you that responding to every customer inquiry is tough, especially if you’re working for a small business with limited resources. Using a do-not-reply email—a special type of account that’s unable to receive incoming messages—may seem like a tempting way to lessen that volume. It’s true that do-not-reply emails have their perks, and they may have a place in your business model.