Support Smarter Embracing Fluid Self-Service in Customer Support Nowadays, reaching out for troubleshooting can feel like a lonely endeavour. In this blog post, we discuss how to intertwine self-serve support with one-on-one human support.
Knowledge Bases The Product Manager's Guide to Utilizing Your Knowledge Base Boost your product management skill set by utilizing your Knowledge Base and understand how your users, engineering team, and support team utilize your company's knowledge base.
Knowledge Bases The Concept of Minimalism for Your Knowledge Management Strategy Minimalism is usually associated with travel or design. Why not Knowledge Bases? Here's how to implement minimalism and increase UX, Knowledge Management, and foster a better culture.
Support Smarter Crafting Your First E-Commerce FAQ Page Not quite ready for a full-blown Knowledge Base for your online store? Here's our top tips for getting going with an FAQ page.
Knowledge Bases How to Meet Your Customer Service SLAs With a Knowledge Base Customer support service-level agreements can benefit everyone, but it can be tricky to keep to the targets. Here's how to use your Knowledge Base to meet your metrics.
Knowledge Bases How We Identified Our Knowledge Base Gaps Finding gaps in your Knowledge Base can be time-consuming. Here's how we identified ours and improved our support flow.
Knowledge Bases Should You Use a Knowledge Base for Your Product Updates? Using a Knowledge Base for product updates isn't clear-cut. Learn whether you should consider it or use alternative products.
Support Smarter Empower Your Customers: Options for Building a Self-Service Stack That Delights Your Users Learn about different types of self-service support, including proactive methods like video series and reactive methods like Knowledge Bases to build your self-serve stack.
Unwrapped 23 Learning to Take Time Off Support Emails During the Holiday Period During the pandemic my mental health took a hit. Here's why and how it led me to taking more time off, especially during the festive period.
Support Smarter How to Successfully Onboard Technical Writers for Your Knowledge Base The road to successfully onboarding a technical writer can be challenging—especially if you're not one yourself. Here are some tips on why and how to make it happen.
Support Smarter The Surprising Upsides of a Customer Support Spam Incident HelpDocs' support email account was eerily quiet for a whole week. Until I found out that our customers' emails had been in the spam folder. Here's the lessons I learned.
Support Smarter Why We're Switching from GIFs to Video Inside Our Knowledge Base Articles You might notice a few more videos if you've looked at our Knowledge Base recently. Here's why we're switching from GIFs to video and the process involved.
Support Smarter How to Create a Seamless External and Internal Knowledge Base Experience Creating a great documentation experience for your customers and team is tricky. Here's our insight into how to make it as simple as possible.
Support Smarter How To Build & Launch Your First Multilingual Knowledge Base Launching a Multilingual Knowledge Base can be daunting. In this guide, you'll find strategies to ensure customers around the world can help themselves.
Support Smarter How to Condense Lots of Information in Your Knowledge Base Articles Are your Knowledge Base articles giving a little too much? Condense them down with these top tips so your readers can digest them properly.
Support Smarter GPT-3 for Technical Writers—Friend or Foe? GPT-3 is a tool that's creating a lot of buzz. How can it be used for technical writers and is it a threat we should be worried about?
Support Smarter A Guide to Creating Your First SaaS Knowledge Base Creating your first Knowledge Base for your SaaS company? It can be tricky, but with these tips & tricks you'll be well on your way to creating stellar self-serve support.
Support Smarter Terrible Hospitality Habits to Ignore For Your Customer Support Dirty glasses, missed housekeeping, and hospitality sentences are too common in hotels. Here's what you can avoid in your own customer support to keep customers happy.
Support Smarter Keeping Calm with Customer Support on the Road Baggage drop-off. Patting down. Running to the train. Travel is so stressful it's tough to keep on top of the ticket queue. Here are some tips from a seasoned traveler on how to travel and stop tickets from piling up.
Support Smarter How to Strive for a More Accessible Knowledge Base Knowledge Bases are jam-packed full of useful information—but can everyone digest it? Dive into how and why to make your Knowledge Base a more accessible destination for customers.
Support Smarter Why Better Sleep Hygiene Can Level Up Your Customer Support We all know sleep is important and all—but why? In this post, I dive into why sleep is crucial not just for general health but specifically for people who work in customer support.
Support Smarter Being More Inclusive In Customer Support Replies We often don't think enough about the way to refer to people in customer support. This can have negative effects on customers without realizing it. Here are some simple tips on how to change this.
Support Smarter Learning to Shorten My Support Ticket Responses Do longer replies mean better customer satisfaction? After reading my co-founder's support ticket replies I wondered—should I shorten time too?
Support Smarter The Psychology Behind Writing a Readable Knowledge Base Article We delve behind the scenes and in our brains to see how we interpret words and turn them into something we read. We then take a look to see how we can create more readable Knowledge Base articles using this information.
Support Smarter How to Integrate Your Knowledge Base and eCommerce Storefront eCommerce is tough and the support can be overwhelming. Carry on being consumer-centric without having to sacrifice your support team by better integrating your Knowledge Base.