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.

Jitbit Helpdesk has completed the annual HIPAA audit

How to avoid burning out at a customer support job

As I said multiple times, customer support is a very stressful job. The best thing you can do for your productivity is to take care of your mental health. I believe this is the hardest part about the job and I struggle a lot with this.

I wanted to share a couple of tips in this post, which the Jitbit support team and I use to deal with frustration and to avoid burning out.

"Help Desk" vs "Service Desk" vs "ITSM"

The IT industry is overwhelmed with abbreviations. ITSM vs ITIL vs SaaS vs DevOPS... Sometimes even technical journalists get lost, confusing "ITSM" with a "helpdesk"... So here is how IT guys (are supposed to) see it:

How to handle negative customer feedback

Customer support is not all roses - quite often you have to deal with criticism from your customers. It’s very easy to take it personally and ruin your relationships with a client even further. How do you deal with situations like that? Here is the first thing to always remember:

Zapier Help Desk integration is released with new features

Ever since we started developing Jitbit Helpdesk, we’ve been focusing on keeping the app simple. We believe this is what makes us stand out from the competition – our help desk is not bloated with dozens of buttons, checkboxes, and features that you will never use. Jitbit Helpdesk is a product built for a single purpose – being a ticketing system for email customer support.

3 Things to Look for When Hiring for Customer Support Job

The process of hiring a new customer support rep is a very complicated subject (and that’s why I’ve been putting off writing about it for quite a while). But in the end, it all comes to picking the right candidate.

I’m not an HR manager, although I’ve hired a fair share of people, so I’m not going to write about the general questions to ask during an interview. You can find those on your own. I will focus specifically on what we are looking for in a support rep.

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