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Top 10 osTicket Alternatives & Competitors for 2024

Top 10 osTicket Alternatives & Competitors for 2024

If your requirements have outgrown osTicket, it’s not unusual. I have been there too, I understand osTicket is a renowned open-source ticketing system built to manage customer support inquiries and tickets, ultimately improving your customer service and experience. But after using the tool myself, I was hit by many roadblocks — an outdated and clunky...
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10 Most Common Help Desk Problems & How to Solve Them

10 Most Common Help Desk Problems & How to Solve Them

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...
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Reduce Your Help Desk Calls in 10 Easy Ways

Reduce Your Help Desk Calls in 10 Easy Ways

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...
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Personalized Customer Experience: What, How, and Why

Personalized Customer Experience: What, How, and Why

There is this thing about contemporary customers- they have changed. A lot!  They no longer want to settle for generic products or experiences and rather want everything to resonate with their personal tastes. But with your customer base growing into leaps and bounds, how do you craft a unique, personalized customer experience for everyone, every...
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What Is The Difference Between Help Desk And Desktop Support?

What Is The Difference Between Help Desk And Desktop Support?

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...
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How to Reduce Support Ticket Volume in 15 Sure-Fire Ways

How to Reduce Support Ticket Volume in 15 Sure-Fire Ways

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...
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Help Desk Glossary: 60+ Terms to Better Understand Your Help Desk

Help Desk Glossary: 60+ Terms to Better Understand Your Help Desk

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,...
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What is a Support Ticket & How Can You Resolve Tickets Faster?

What is a Support Ticket & How Can You Resolve Tickets Faster?

No matter if you are a small team that is part of a month-old startup or a big team working for a corporate giant, resolving customer concerns as and when they appear is critical for everyone’s success.  But when the list of customer problems runs in hundreds or thousands; how do you organize and prioritize...
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