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10 Essential Zendesk Features Every Customer Support Team Should Utilize

31 West

When your business scales and your customer base grow, so does the number of customer queries, complaints, and feedback. The constant notifications of incoming messages from hundreds of customers can turn pretty overwhelming for your customer support department.

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The 5 best SaaS customer support companies

Influx

54% of businesses rely on third-party vendors to augment their customer service. Customer support can be a lot to manage in-house. Organizations of all sizes are turning to on-demand support to rapidly scale and deliver world-class experiences at a fraction of the cost. See Influx’s pricing page.

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6 steps to effectively reduce customer support backlog

Influx

On-demand support teams ready to launch in one week → Customer support backlog management can put immense pressure on support teams. Customer satisfaction scores (CSAT) - While not directly related to backlog size, CSAT provides a holistic measure of customer satisfaction and can give a good indication of support quality.

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6 key strategies to scale your customer support team

Influx

When answering the important questions…‘what does it mean to scale a business,’ and ‘how to scale teams,’ one of the things that many businesses forget about is maintaining a high level of customer support that remains as good as it was in the beginning stages. Why is it important to scale up your customer support team?

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Streamlining Customer Support: 3 Steps to Tackling Ticket Backlogs

Simplr

By then, customers have moved on and found a better deal to invest in. We also saw enterprises with email backlogs that had grown seven times their original size in just two weeks. In some of those cases, the amount of emails in a backlog outnumbered the company’s entire customer base!

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A complete guide to 24/7 customer support

Influx

How to provide 24/7 customer support. Almost everything can be obtained on-demand and personalized, and customers have grown to expect immediate answers. 90% of customers rate an “immediate” response as essential or very important when they have a customer service question. 24/7 support is an investment.

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Top 7 Common Customer Support Outsourcing Problems

NoonDalton

Many fast-growing businesses are looking to outsource their customer support so that they can focus on developing their business. You can reduce friction, avoid the common customer support outsourcing problems, and protect your customers’ experience this way. . 7 Common Customer Support Outsourcing Problems.