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Here's How to Establish a Successful Customer-First Strategy

Many businesses boast about having a focus on customer satisfaction, but in many cases, it’s actually an afterthought. Businesses must adopt a strong customer-first strategy if they are going to truly meet customer needs and create amazing experiences. Let’s take a look at ways to build this strategy.

Ticket Management for Dummies: Keeping Tickets Organized Truly Matters

You get a support call escalated to you one minute, your boss tells you to call a different customer the next, and a few minutes later three new tickets hit your inbox, all with totally different issues. How do you and your team stay organized with your tickets when they’re flying in from everywhere?! If all customer problems came in through a single channel, such as email, it would make organizing and keeping track of your tickets so much easier.

Selecting a helpdesk solution to track support emails

If you have been on the lookout for a helpdesk solution to help you track incoming support emails, you have probably already come across several options. This post discusses the types of solutions available in the market, without getting deep into individual features. Hopefully this will provide a decision framework that will help you determine the type of solutions you need, so that afterwards you can go on and evaluate only those that fall into the category you need.

Messaging Layer Security to Lead a New Era of Collaboration

Beyond offering the most secure collaboration -Wire is actively leading the work on extending its security standards to become the norm for protecting organizations' digital assets. Raphael Robert, head of security at Wire discusses the new era of secure group messaging at DefCamp in Bucharest, November 8th. The session will shed further light on the ongoing developments and progress of Messaging Layer Security (MLS).

How moderators can make your community a better place

As community forums become essential tools for scaling support, it’s natural for companies to need some help keeping things organized, ensuring the conversation runs smoothly and everyone can tap into the wisdom of the crowd. That’s where moderators come in: to help your community grow into, and remain, a destination.

The Art of Listening to Customers: Filtering the Value from the Noise

It’s clear that feedback can – and should – be a critical part of the product management decision making process. When planning your product strategy it is essential to find out what real users think and then strike a balance between coming up with your own innovative ideas, reacting to market trends and taking customer opinions into account.

Organizing your conversations with Folders

How do you easily find your way through your conversations? Ever find yourself scrolling endlessly to find the right conversation? We all do. So far we have had some ingenious hacks to help us with this. Fancy naming conventions, or our favorite, using icons for various conversation categories (think ? for bug hunting chats or ? for release and deployment chats).

When Do You Know it's Time to Switch Helpdesk?

There are times when a company or its support agents can be unhappy with the helpdesk they use. The reasons for this can vary – either the UI is not user-friendly, or the helpdesk does not easily integrate with other platforms, and many more. Yet, businesses tend to stick to one helpdesk despite their shortcomings – why?

15+ Customer Support Tools Every Support Team Needs

If your business (being it eCommerce, brick and mortar or any other type) is going to attract and retain high-value customers, you have to offer amazing customer support. In other words, you have to build strong relationships, give your customers what they need, and show them you care. So your support team must use the best customer support tools available.