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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? Data alone won’t produce results, but it will help you to contextualize customer behavior and feedback to provide better service faster. 12 help desk metrics to track for more effective customer support.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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Automated customer service should be personal

Intercom, Inc.

With this increase in functionality comes a change in how customers actually view automation: less as a nuisance, and more as a bona fide, personalized option for getting help with their issues. As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them.

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. It becomes harder for the folks running things to make time to be inside their customers’ minds. Speak the customer’s language. Short on time?

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Busted! Debunking The 10 Most Dangerous Customer Success Myths

Valuize Consulting

Customer Success Management: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction. 91% of businesses have said that their Customer Success organization has grown significantly in the last year alone ( Totango , 2021). Due to this quota-less engagement model, many internal organizations view Customer Success as akin to “expensive customer support.”