23 Experts Reveal How to Scale Customer Support (Without Hurting the Customer Experience)

Youth is a painful time. You’re losing and regrowing teeth. Falling off your bike. Starting school. Getting swirlies. Braces. Your first heartbreak.

You endure growing pains.

The early days of business are very similar. Nothing is harder than your first customer. As your company gets its legs underneath it, you treat these early customers as VIPs.

27 Experts Discuss Key Customer Support Metrics That Drive Growth

It’s the greatest truth of our age: “Information is not knowledge,” says author Caleb Carr.

It’s a sentiment befitting today’s digital era, where data is inherently collected and made readily available at any given moment. But when it comes to measuring and using that data effectively, many companies are at a loss as to why certain metrics matter, and what purpose they serve.

Truth is:

Metrics are completely useless if you don’t know how to interpret them, or why you have them. This is especially true in the dog-eat-dog world of customer support where seconds can mean the difference between crippling churn, and high lifetime value.

How to Set Measurable Customer Support Goals That Drive Growth

Fool-Proof Guide: How to Choose the Right Helpdesk Solution for Your Business

As if getting customers weren't hard enough, you also need a solid system in place to help maintain the relationship. Which is why choosing a help desk software to support customer queries and complaints is a decision you can't afford to take lightly.

What is Customer Advocacy and 11 Reasons Why it's the Bedrock of Your Business

Let’s face it: Not all customers are equal. Some, if you’re lucky, will become super-fans of your business. Customer advocates, if you will.

The term customer advocacy should make your ears perk up. These are the people who will become the pillars of your brand - the ones who spend the most money, bring in more customers, and shout your name from the rooftops.

13 Tips to Manage Your Support Ticket Queue Like a Boss

For support agents, there are few things more stressful than an in inbox overflowing with support tickets.

Managing the queue can be brutal. Just when you think you’re done, you see others waiting in the ticket line. There are the tickets no one wants to touch because they are too difficult, and rogue tickets bounce back and forth between agents and departments.

Lessons learned from analyzing 7 million customer support tickets

Next month we are going to hit a total of seven million tickets handled by the Jitbit Helpdesk customers. Jitbit has been around for almost ten years, and we've accumulated a lot of data. So we thought we dig in and see what we can find.

13 "Must-Have" Components of a Rockstar Ticket Management System

If you’re a business owner, there is always a lot to do.

Vendors need to get paid. Customers invoiced. Bugs fixed. Customer service questions to be answered. There are countless moving pieces that never end.

Empathy is not the most important thing in customer support

Without a doubt, the most important quality to have as a customer support worker is empathy. This is the quality you need to look for when hiring. However, some companies, especially, young startups seem to take this a little bit over the top. Recently I've read an article by one of such startups, Slack, that I strongly disagree with.

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