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.

Survey forms in Jitbit Helpdesk

How to make loyal customers

On average, loyal customers are worth up to 10 times as much as their first purchase according to White House Office of Consumer Affairs. Simply put, the more loyal customers you have, the more money your company makes.

Categorizing your Support Tickets

A 10-point Checklist for a Great Customer Support Interaction

It’s hard to stay on top of your customer support game all the time – it can get stressful, chaotic and crazy. That is why I created this checklist for myself to ensure that I’m always doing my best with every ticket.

Complete Guide to SaaS email follow-ups

Email marketing in SaaS is a hard thing to figure out. What emails do you need to send? When and how often do you need to send them? What should the email subject say? How do you avoid getting into spam? How do you make people open and read the emails?

All-hands support: pros and cons

All-hands support — an approach where everyone in a company does customer support to some extent — has been a widely discussed topic lately. The idea is not new. A lot of big companies, like Basecamp, Stripe, Slack and even us, have been advocating this for quite some time.

But is it really that beneficial as they make it out to be?

How to WOW your customers