Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Break down silos and build up communication among teams. In today’s hyperconnected world of business, it’s hard to believe that silos still exist between departments. Sadly, they do. But with the right B2B (business-to-business) customer support software, it’s easy for support, sales, and product development teams to all have full visibility into the history of the customer, what products they are using, and what communication has occurred throughout the relationship.

Many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) rely on a patchwork system of multiple tools just to capture customer information and respond to requests. This can result in time wasted, missed requests and lost sales—not a great look for a growing business. What’s more, these workarounds and stopgaps simply don’t scale. As your business matures, your technology needs to mature too.

When you’re looking to hire and build your customer service team, you’re faced with one question: What will you call your employees? Your titles say a lot about your company and explain what you expect your employees to do. So we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of all customer service job titles. To choose the best customer service titles for your company, take a look at this list!

According to the Zendesk Benchmark, it takes an average of 24.2 hours to provide the first response to an internal support ticket. And internal support teams receive around 492 tickets per month. This means that help desk agents in internal support teams have to spend approximately a whopping 11906.4 hours to solve tickets per month which leads to attrition. Moreover, the cost of manually handling a help desk ticket is $22.

Using Freshservice? Then this blog is for you. Not using Freshservice? Then this blog is for you. Confused? Read on then.

How Jira integration with Workativ Assistant can speed up workplace support You might’ve heard the term “Jira” used by any of the members in your product team at your company irrespective of what role you’re in. To make it clear for you, Jira is actually a tool developed by the Australian Company, Atlassian. It is used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management.

How a support agent is introduced to a new role and how they’re coached until they can get up to speed plays a huge role in their performance throughout their career. In fact, organizations with a strong training and onboarding process improve new hire retention by 82% and productivity by over 70%1. So, it’s vital that you train and onboard your agents well, especially in a remote work environment.

We all know great customer service when we receive it. Providing exceptional customer service to others however, is the real challenge. Providing good customer service is a vital habit that every customer rep should have. It’s the best way to increase customer loyalty and the most effective way of handling even the hardest of customers. But, how can you and your customer service reps provide exceptional customer service consistently to every client?