Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Working Together, Remotely - Part II

In the first part of the “Working Together, Remotely” series, we shared stories of Scorers who have had to face quite a few changes while working from home. Today, we will take a closer look at how our People Operations Manager, Annika, and Customer Onboarding Expert, Austin, have adapted and what has changed for them. The current situation continues to change the business landscape as we know it.

Part 1: B2B Customer Support: Cost Center or Profit Center?

There are two types of people in the world. The first type thinks B2B customer support is a cost center, or a necessary expense for running a business. After all, having a support team is required for your product, and it’s just something you need to have. The second type thinks B2B customer support is a profit center. Support may be part of a successful business, but that’s because they are a part of a greater revenue generating team.

How a Digital Solutions Retailer Uses OneDesk Project Management Feature

There was once a time when marketing was mostly about handing out flyers and placing radio adverts. Marketing has come a long way since then, and even digital marketing has been subject to evolution. Innovative marketing concepts like data-driven and personalized marketing are but few of the digital marketing trends explored by businesses and marketing agencies recently. With larger players now in the market, contemporary digital marketing trends are more in line with interactive marketing and AI.

6 call center training tips for building an exceptional team of agents

More often than not, shoppers’ impressions of companies are based on interactions with support agents. After all, customers rarely interact directly with businesses outside of support calls—especially if the company is online-based. Your agents need the proper training and tools to handle those calls in a way that makes the customer feel heard and appreciated. Below are six call center training tips to ensure your agents can deliver a positive, helpful customer experience.

How to calculate your customer retention rate

Loyal customers are the bedrock of any booming business. After all, loyal customers are repeat customers; they’re generally the most likely to promote a business on social media; they tend to report the highest levels of customer satisfaction; they have the lowest churn rate; and they can boost a company’s net promoter score. Customer retention is critical. But keeping customers happy and loyal for the long haul is easier said than done.

What is StartingPoint and How We Help Service-Based Companies and Teams

Companies lose more than $75 billion per year due to poor customer service and low customer satisfaction. StartingPoint is the solution for service-based businesses between 2 to 30 employees to solve the challenges in client engagement and customer service. Developed with AWS and IBM Cloud, StartingPoint is the solution for service-based companies and teams. Industries we can specifically assist are accountants, bookkeepers, CPAs, real estate brokers, mortgage lending brokers, independent insurance agents, consulting firms, and business managers.

Nifty Tutorial: Task Management

Bring order to your team’s workflow with Nifty Tasks! Tasks can be as simple as a do-item, or a fully rigged out journeys with a description, a due date assigned subtasks, and attached files & docs. Additionally, tasks have a collaborative comment section to consolidate feedback. If you’d like to keep this task private from project Guests, Members, or Admins, simply hit the Hide Task button! And don’t forget to tie a task to a Milestone to automate milestone progress tracking and the impact on greater project objectives!