While rapid innovation in Information Technology (IT) has made life easier for customers and employees, IT support teams are somewhere caught in an uphill battle.  For most businesses, their IT service desk is under tremendous pressure. Support teams are feeling the heat of not only managing higher volumes of IT issues and requests but also...

Remember the time when you ran into a faulty product and wanted to contact the business for support? While one of your friends suggested reaching their call center team, others advised contacting their help desk.  And you thought to yourself – “After all, what is the difference between call center and help desk? Aren’t they...

No matter if you run a small online store or a large multinational business, you are bound to receive problems from your employees as well as customers. However, the “real problem” starts when your help desk is bombarded with innumerable issues, and things seem to spiral out of control.  The good news is that most...

We all are familiar with that comforting voice greeting us and telling us- “I’m here to help you. I will surely find a way to resolve your issue.”  Customers simply love phone support. A good reason why the phone remains the most preferred channel for customers is that it shows great potential for empathy. After...

Technical jargon has always been a nightmare even for technical experts, let alone entrepreneurs.  In order to prepare a robust support strategy, you need to clearly define the roles and functions of your teams as well as processes. However, a real problem begins when your business starts using two different terms such as help desk...

Customer service teams share one common goal- to delight every single customer that needs assistance.  But can you really inch closer to this goal when your ticket backlog runs in hundreds or thousands?  It has become common for businesses to complain about a sluggish support process, overworked agents, skyrocketing response times, complaining customers, and a...

Anyone new to the customer service landscape knows that getting a firm grip on hundreds of terms and abbreviations can be quite challenging.  Do help desk terms seem like an alien language?  To save you from the trouble of going to Google for every new term and help you better run your help desk software,...

If you think the answer to meeting the ever-growing customer expectations is limited to a low price or a fantastic product, think again. Customer service has become a key player when it comes to offering a wholesome experience to customers. Within the last decade, how businesses assist their customers has undergone a complete revolution.  From...