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Bookmarked explores the art & craft of knowledge bases and customer support while delving into the lives of the people behind them.

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Hear about the companies using HelpDocs to change the world. From medical software to educational robots—they all have a story to tell.

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We delve into the world of knowledge bases and customer support to try to figure out how to create a better support experience for our customers.

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Personal stories, remote work, and a lot of emoji. We open up about what we’re doing and how we’re feeling so you get to know us a little better.

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Read about the latest updates to the HelpDocs platform right here. From features to fixes and everything in between, we'll give you a roundup.

How to Build Features Users Need by Ignoring What They Ask For
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How to Build Features Users Need by Ignoring What They Ask For

The customer is always right, or so we're told. For decades this idea has underpinned customer satisfaction for businesses around the world. "Le client n'a jamais tort", chant the French. "Der Kunde ist König", shout the Germans. But no matter the country

Strategies to Navigate Confused Customers Towards Your Knowledge Base
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Strategies to Navigate Confused Customers Towards Your Knowledge Base

Releasing a knowledge base to your customers is like a cruise ship on its maiden voyage. Building a ship takes a lot of effort and resources. But if nobody ever gets onboard, it’s been a drain with no reward. You've spent hours organizing, writing, and publishing articles.

May Product Updates: Help Customers Find & Digest Information
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May Product Updates: Help Customers Find & Digest Information

Two years ago we weren't serving any articles. Today, we serve over 20 million of them every month across the globe. Quite the leap, eh? We've faced unique challenges. How do we serve that many articles in a reasonable amount of time? Should we build for

How ready2order Scaled Support for Store Owners Across the Globe
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How ready2order Scaled Support for Store Owners Across the Globe

Setting up a new store is a wild, messy, exciting time. Fitting it out, finishing up the last coat of paint, and arranging the big day when you’re finally open for business. The thing you’re probably not thinking about is stock management, discounting, order management, and customer profiles.

Say Hello to HelpDocs Articles Inside the Intercom Messenger
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Say Hello to HelpDocs Articles Inside the Intercom Messenger

Setting up a knowledge base and keeping it updated is only useful if your customers find and read your docs. One way to make that happen is to place them in front of the customer in handy places. That's why I'm happy to introduce our latest

Bring Your Knowledge Base Directly into Your Inbox: Updates to Our Front Plugin
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Bring Your Knowledge Base Directly into Your Inbox: Updates to Our Front Plugin

We’ve long been fans of Front [https://frontapp.com/?utm_source=HelpDocs], the team behind the first collaborative multichannel inbox. So much so, we’ve been keen to improve our own customer support workflow within their app. One of the ways we’ve done that is by building a

Simple Steps to Make Sure First Time Users Have a Great Experience
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Simple Steps to Make Sure First Time Users Have a Great Experience

Landing in a new destination is always a little daunting. How should I get to my hotel? Do I need cash? How should I greet someone? Luckily signs and interactive maps point you in the right direction, and when they fail there’s always someone there to help out. Take

Helping Real Estate Agents Match Hearts with Homes
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Helping Real Estate Agents Match Hearts with Homes

For many buying a home is one of life’s most important and memorable steps. Real estate agents are there to help find the perfect pad for you. Whether the clients are a young couple eager to put down a deposit on a first home or a growing family looking

Why We Send Prospects to Competitors If We're Not a Good Fit
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Why We Send Prospects to Competitors If We're Not a Good Fit

As a customer it can often feel like the person on the other end of the line or more appropriate these days—messenger, doesn’t have your best interests at heart. No matter if you’re a good fit for their product or not, you’re going in their funnel

Custom Template Changes, Infrastructure Improvements, and a Guide: March Product Updates
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Custom Template Changes, Infrastructure Improvements, and a Guide: March Product Updates

With Easter having come and gone, it's been a crackin' year for us so far. But cracking isn't something we want with our service, so this month's updates are mostly about infrastructure upgrades. No yolk. HelpDocs has grown to serving millions of docs

Introducing Our First Guide: Building a Knowledge Base from Scratch
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Introducing Our First Guide: Building a Knowledge Base from Scratch

It’s easy to leave setting up a knowledge base at the bottom of your to-do list. Or y’know, assign that one to another teammate. No biggie. 🤨 Like an author getting started on their next novel, writing and organizing a knowledge base can be a daunting, confusing task. Thinking

Organizing Our First Company Retreat as a Bootstrapped Remote Startup
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Organizing Our First Company Retreat as a Bootstrapped Remote Startup

For us the benefits of being a remote company are obvious. You can work when and where you’re most comfortable, you’re able to travel or spend time with family, and you can skip the office politics [https://open.buffer.com/state-remote-work-2018/#benefits]. But despite software making it easier

Educating Users and Inspiring Visitors Around the Globe
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Educating Users and Inspiring Visitors Around the Globe

Anyone who's travelled knows the excitement of arriving in a new destination, eager to explore and lay your senses on the sights and experiences. Each turn has its own story to tell. It's that story GuidiGO [https://www.guidigo.com/en] want to enable local experts

February Product Updates: Lighthouse Beta, SSL, and Speed Improvements
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February Product Updates: Lighthouse Beta, SSL, and Speed Improvements

Happy second month of the year! February's been a super exciting month for the team. We had our first team retreat in a cold but lovely Madrid. Many burgers & fries were consumed, as well as terrible Spanish exchanged in shops. We had a ton of fun and

Rebuilding a Knowledge Base for a High Growth Startup
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Rebuilding a Knowledge Base for a High Growth Startup

When I started my job at Drift [https://drift.com], I was there for many different reasons: To learn everything I could about our product, to disperse that knowledge internally and externally, and to set the tone for the rest of the customer advocates to come after me. We were

Free Knowledge Base Icon Kit for Sketch & Illustrator
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Free Knowledge Base Icon Kit for Sketch & Illustrator

One of the things we've learned over the last year or so is that our customers love customizing their knowledge base and making it look just right. It takes time and effort, but it's always worth it in the end. Trouble is, your designers are probably

Bolstering Self-Serve Support at Scale with HelpDocs
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Bolstering Self-Serve Support at Scale with HelpDocs

Drift is building a new way for businesses to buy from businesses. Through the power of intelligent bots and playbooks, over 50,000 businesses are able to direct visitors to book meetings or take other actions when they land on their site. From its headquarters in Boston, the company is

Making Walkthrough Videos for Help Documentation
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Making Walkthrough Videos for Help Documentation

Leads and customers land on your knowledge base to find answers. They actively want to become successful with your product. And the reason you write them at all is to guide them to get there, right? My top tip when starting with a knowledge base is to write everything down.

Our New & Improved Slack Integration: Make Your Knowledge Base a Team Sport
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Our New & Improved Slack Integration: Make Your Knowledge Base a Team Sport

Let’s face it, being in charge of your company’s knowledge base can often feel like a lonely job. While getting help documentation up to scratch is essential, it’s not always given much thought despite it being the first line of help for confused customers or lurking leads.

New Year, New HelpDocs: January Product Updates
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New Year, New HelpDocs: January Product Updates

Last year we released a multitude of updates, from our lightening-fast instant search to smart 404 pages to assist lost customers and guide them in the right direction. This year, we're committed to shipping even more to give you the tools to help your customers and team succeed.

Lessons Learned Rebuilding Our Marketing Site
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Lessons Learned Rebuilding Our Marketing Site

Building a new marketing site from scratch is daunting. There I am with a blank screen and a gazillion possibilities. The job sounded simple: convey HelpDocs and its purpose to new visitors. But as many designers and developers know, it’s never that simple. I think everyone finds a certain

Why We're Forcing Ourselves to Stop Rebuilding Our Product
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Why We're Forcing Ourselves to Stop Rebuilding Our Product

As a technical founder it's my job to prioritize what to build, what to improve, and what to chuck away. A.k.a managing "the roadmap". When you're working inside the product day-to-day, just how do you decide what needs the most attention? We&

The Future of Product Management in 2018
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The Future of Product Management in 2018

Apple, Coca Cola, and Nike are just a few examples of consumer brands who have managed to stay relevant over time, in no small part due to strong product management. High-tech product management, on the other hand, is considered by some to be a young and relatively immature profession. But

A Sleighful of Goodies: December Product Updates
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A Sleighful of Goodies: December Product Updates

With the holiday season well into swing, we thought we'd wrap up 2017 with a right cracker. We've been busy little elves, shipping sleighing a sack full of integrations, optimising the app, and making a host of other improvements behind the workshop. ⛄️ A trio of new

Lending a Helping Hand Inside the Classroom
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Lending a Helping Hand Inside the Classroom

We've all got cherished memories from our few first years at school. Learning the alphabet, making the difficult decision between having milk or juice as a snack, and creating far too much mess with PVA glue. But I'm sure you never thought about how much hard

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