With the holiday season upon us, your customers and agents are probably taking some well-deserved time off. It might take a little extra planning to ensure your remaining support team can manage customer issues without any hassle. Thankfully, Freshdesk can help! Here are three features that we think you’ll find particularly helpful during the holidays.
Every organization is unique. A customer service solution that works for one company may not work for another. Integrations help widen the scope of use cases that a customer service solution can handle, in addition to existing features. And Freshdesk has a Marketplace full of integration solutions to satisfy every customer need. Now let’s get a little more specific and ask a related question – what if your organization uses software that utilizes Microsoft SQL Server?
When they told us we would be working from home in March, we all thought it would be for a few days or maybe a few weeks. Tops. 2020 marked the end of a decade, and we had high hopes for how the year would fare. We know how that turned out. Despite adversity, it is amazing how we found ways to cope and strive forward. Above everything, that calls for a celebration—in a socially distanced manner, please!
Let’s be honest, we’d all appreciate a little less work during the holiday season. Luckily for you, with the right features in Freshdesk, you can easily reduce your workload and save a lot of time. Time you can spend singing Christmas carols and planning the perfect secret Santa gift! To help you get started, we’ve packaged our best agent productivity features in Christmas themes to help you get more done this holiday season.
At a conference in 1997, Steve Jobs famously said this in response to a provocative question from one of the audience members about the company’s strategy at the time: “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around. “ Today, many companies have forgotten that the essence of running a business starts with the customer.
Gone are the days when customer support was just about resolving your customer’s issue. It has now become a key component of a brand’s overall customer experience and plays a vital role in differentiating it from the competition. 73% of customers fall in love with a brand and remain loyal because of friendly customer service reps, says a report by RightNow.
“Culture forms the bedrock of everything we do at Freshworks.” – Suman Gopalan, CHRO Freshworks When the pandemic broke out in March 2020, at Freshworks we were apprehensive about a lot of things, particularly about how we were going to collaborate across teams in different locations and get things done. Fast forward to September, we are quite proud of how far we have come, and of all the things we have been able to achieve.
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Texting is one of the most used forms of communication. In the United States alone, 5.5 billion text messages are sent daily. So maybe it’s not so much of a surprise that your customers want to be able to text your business when they need support. Few things are more frustrating than when you’re trying to solve a problem and just end up sitting on hold. And texting offers an alternative for you and your customers.
Sometime last year, we found the opportunity to optimize one of our critical API endpoints that was served using Ruby on Rails. This led to a series of investigations before we identified the right long-term solution for our particular use case. It required us not only to leverage a new JSON serializer, but also challenged us to build efficient caching and deployment strategies to go with it. This is the tale of how we embarked on that compelling journey and what we learned as a result.
