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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 Self-Service Knowledge Bases Empower Support Staff to Get More Done
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How Self-Service Knowledge Bases Empower Support Staff to Get More Done

“The customer is always right”. Yeah, and they’re super demanding too. According to Harvard Business Review [https://hbr.org/2010/07/stop-trying-to-delight-your-customers], 65% of customers want their problem resolved in the first try. And, over 60% of customers believe that knowledgeable employees is crucial to providing good customer service.

Shredding off 25% Support Load to Self-Serve
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Shredding off 25% Support Load to Self-Serve

Solvo [https://solvo.nl] helps over 5.5 million people in the Netherlands find, compare, and book medical specialists every month. By showing reliable medical information in a clear language, the company matches up patients with a specialist that will aid them on their way to better health. They take

Infinite, Instant & Brand New: October Product Updates

Infinite, Instant & Brand New: October Product Updates

This past few months we've been working on some super exciting new HelpDocs features. We're keeping some of them under wraps for now, but I have a few awesome developments to share with you today. 🎉 Subcategory support Yep, we've added support for categories inside

How Being Rejected By Multiple Startup Accelerators Actually Helped Us
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How Being Rejected By Multiple Startup Accelerators Actually Helped Us

If you're anything like we are as startup founders, you'll have considered joining an accelerator program. At least once. I mean, it seems like a great deal, right? You get some money, some mentorship, and the chance to pitch a group of investors looking for the

Live Chat & Bots: Where Do They Fit In When Interacting With Customers?
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Live Chat & Bots: Where Do They Fit In When Interacting With Customers?

Customer support has always been a bit of a necessary evil for companies. Nobody wants to spend money on support, but without support would you have any customers? I doubt it. With the rise of live chat, it's even harder for support reps to deliver good responses, in

Why We’re Rejecting Freemium and Building a Sustainable Business Instead
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Why We’re Rejecting Freemium and Building a Sustainable Business Instead

Startup pricing’s a touchy subject. Nobody’s quite sure how to do it best [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282]. And at the end of the day it’s very dependent on your exact situation. But the general consensus is to just double your prices. > Marc Andreessen

6 Customer Support Experts Weigh In on How to Stop Your Help Center from Going Stale
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6 Customer Support Experts Weigh In on How to Stop Your Help Center from Going Stale

If you're a startup, keeping up with product updates is exhausting. You're likely pushing new code each week, which means your product is changing every week. Keeping a knowledge base updated is pretty much a marathon with the finishing line moving away from you every step.

Top-Notch Image Annotation Tools for Your Knowledge Base Articles
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Top-Notch Image Annotation Tools for Your Knowledge Base Articles

Check out these tools to make your knowledge base more visually appealing.

Increase Customer Onboarding Engagement by Getting Out the Way
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Increase Customer Onboarding Engagement by Getting Out the Way

It seems like customer onboarding is a never ending rabbit hole of options. It's difficult to tell what's working and what's not. There are so many things to tweak, the job's never over. Add a small copy change to your signup form

New Features for July 🐣
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New Features for July 🐣

So, you might remember we recently switched to seasonal product updates (check out our Spring update [https://blog.helpdocs.io/spring-product-update-17]). We made a big deal about not doing monthly updates, yada yada yada. Well, now we're back to monthly product update posts. Or rather irregular posts, anyway.

HelpDocs Has Acquired Helpman 🎉
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HelpDocs Has Acquired Helpman 🎉

I have some exciting news to share with you today. We've made our first acquisition: Helpman [https://gethelpman.io]! The story so far Helpman was a direct competitor to HelpDocs—another hosted knowledge base platform. We've been competing for just over a year now, but after

Spring Product Updates
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Spring Product Updates

Just under a year ago [https://blog.helpdocs.io/why-your-startup-needs-an-awesome-knowledge-base/], my cofounder and I set out on a mission—to create a knowledge base that worked and looked great out-the-box. It's coming up to HelpDocs' first anniversary and I'm extremely proud of how far we&

How to Write Knowledge Base Articles Customers Can Actually Understand
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How to Write Knowledge Base Articles Customers Can Actually Understand

Writing a knowledge base article is a surprisingly difficult task. How can you keep the language simple and clear? How do you get across the information without making your customers fall asleep? 😴 Good news is you don't need to take a class in technical writing. In fact, the

How Surprisingly Good Support Wins Us Customers
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How Surprisingly Good Support Wins Us Customers

At HelpDocs we’re kinda great at customer support. If you’ve ever sent us a support request (or just a hello) you’ll have seen this yourself. Almost all our chats are replied to within 30 waking minutes. Usually way quicker. It’s safe to say our customers love

Creating a Culture Where Everyone Does Support
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Creating a Culture Where Everyone Does Support

At Front [https://frontapp.com/], we’re passionate about helping companies communicate better. Thousands of teams use Front’s shared inbox platform for customer support that feels friendly and personal, with the powerful features of a help desk working behind the scenes. With Front powering great support teams around the

How We Developed Integrations to Kickstart our Early Stage Growth
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How We Developed Integrations to Kickstart our Early Stage Growth

As soon as we beamed our product down to customers we were on a race. A race to grow from nothing to something. Starting at $0 is painful. We knew we'd have to work incredibly hard to get anything and figuring out how to grow is just part

Moving Past the Ticket Number: Having Conversations with Customers
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Moving Past the Ticket Number: Having Conversations with Customers

"Hello Jarratt", a faceless agent from Acme Corp Customer Support replied in an email thread. "Thank you for providing that information and for working with us through the troubleshooting process". Once again, there I was dealing with a large company and their inadequate customer support. Ticket

Introducing Multilingual Translation
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Introducing Multilingual Translation

I'm thrilled to announce that HelpDocs now has full support for multiple languages. 🎉 Now you can write your docs in as many languages as you can think of, and your visitors can choose the version they want. Until now, making a multilingual knowledge base has been painful at

How to Create a Product Onboarding Email Sequence from Scratch
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How to Create a Product Onboarding Email Sequence from Scratch

We've been putting off building an onboarding sequence for a little while now, mainly because we were worried it would be a gigantic time-sink. There are loads of ways to optimize onboarding email sequences and it can easily get out of hand. 🙁 What should we include to engage

HelpDocs Now Supports Internal Docs
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HelpDocs Now Supports Internal Docs

We've been building HelpDocs for just over 6 months now. We get dozens of feature requests each day, and one of the most common by far is internal docs. In fact, some of our users have been using HelpDocs internally since the start. They've hacked it

Surprising Startup Lessons We Learned After Launching a Local Business
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Surprising Startup Lessons We Learned After Launching a Local Business

Taking a step back from your computer can give you valuable insights into how to run your startup. Despite running a SaaS business that’s completely online, we think it’s important to change things up once in a while. When someone we both know told us they were setting

How We Gained 2 Hours a Day by Experimenting With a New Startup Work Schedule
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How We Gained 2 Hours a Day by Experimenting With a New Startup Work Schedule

Getting in the zone with work has always been tough for us. Like many other startup founders, getting the most out of each day is crucial. It’s not about the number of hours either—it’s about getting the right work done and doing it to the best of

Create Better Knowledge Base Articles by Using the Magic of GIFs
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Create Better Knowledge Base Articles by Using the Magic of GIFs

Here's how to increase education with the power of GIFs.

We Added 23 Features in 6 Weeks
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We Added 23 Features in 6 Weeks

Wow, it’s been a busy few weeks. Our teeny little team’s been beavering away to make the product better than ever, and I’ve got a lot to share with you today. We’re on a quest to make the best hosted knowledge base product. From integrations to

How to Balance Customer Feedback and Your Own Vision When Shaping Your Product Roadmap
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How to Balance Customer Feedback and Your Own Vision When Shaping Your Product Roadmap

We all know it's not easy to be a product manager — juggling between your customers' requests, keeping your team's morale high and creating an amazing product along the way. But the hardest of all? Figuring out which features should you build next. Should you listen

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