Support Smarter Why We Stopped Scheduling Product Demo Calls Calls are exhausting and Zoom fatigue is taking over our lives. Here's how we decided to say no to individual product demos and found a better solution for us.
Support Smarter How to Start Understanding Your Knowledge Base Analytics Learn how to start reading analytics and go from understanding whether traffic is going up or down to answering real questions.
Support Smarter How We Updated 275 Knowledge Base Aricles in 3 Days Learn how we updated hundreds of knowledge base articles by getting organized beforehand.
Support Smarter What's the Difference Between a Wiki and a Knowledge Base? The differences between Wikis and a Knowledge Base are like a frog and toad. They're both similar but have very contrasting differences.
Support Smarter Things I Learned about Writing Knowledge Base Articles from Reading Board Game Manuals Board games and customer support documentation have more in common that you’d think. Here’s how I write better docs inspired by board game guides.
Support Smarter Starting a Career as a Technical Writer Looking to learn about how to become a technical writer? Here's my first-hand experience going from beginner to full-time technical writer.
Support Smarter How to Run Repeatable Projects by Using a Wiki and Knowledge Base Together Wondering whether to go for a Wiki or knowledge base? We think you should choose both.
Support Smarter How We Integrate Knowledge Base Articles into Support Tickets Get the lowdown on how we tackle tickets and improve our knowledge base in the process.
Support Smarter The Magic Behind Our Knowledge Base GIFs Come dive into my weird GIF making process where I show you how I create animated images for our knowledge base.
Support Smarter Saying No to Custom Code: Our Journey Creating Support Scope Working on custom code was a rabbit hole we shouldn't have fallen into. Here's how we found light at the end of the tunnel by managing expectations.
Support Smarter Why We Don't Assume Pronouns in Customer Support Gendering customers is something many customer support teams do without thinking. Is it time we change our behavior?
Support Smarter Getting Video to Work in our Knowledge Base Creating videos for a knowledge base is a unique challenge. Here's how I learnt to make them without professional experience.
Support Smarter What Does it Mean to Deliver Great Support? Over the past week how to deliver outstanding support has been on our minds—most likely because we’ve been working on our guide on how to deliver outstanding support 🤷‍♂️
Support Smarter Flying High with Thai There’s something about traveling that makes me uneasy. I guess it’s kind of ironic for a remote worker. Someone who could literally work from anywhere with a halfway decent wifi connection. Ironic because I find myself shackled to the safety and comfort of my 4-walled terrace in
Support Smarter A Short Guide to Deceiving Your Customers tl;dr: Don't. 🙅‍♂️ If I had to make a list of things I hate when contacting customer support, deceiving answers would be close to the top. Recently I had the unfortunate privilege of receiving one. I'd like to tap into that experience and see if there&
Support Smarter How Service Saved Our House Buying Dream Somewhere between sizing up kitchen worktops and the slow queue for mid-shop IKEA meatballs, it dawned on me: We’re buying a house. Wait, let me correct that. We’ve bought a house. I still can’t quite believe it. 3 months ago, my wife and I’d already
Support Smarter Is AI ruining the customer experience? I’ve been seething for days. It’s made writing this post incredibly difficult as I’ve had to sift through the countless curse words to settle on the most accurate to convey my current state of mind.
Support Smarter My Struggles with Time Management, Education and Support It takes 23 minutes to recover from an interruption. As I struggled with a sidestep into education, this stat proved to be way more true than I ever thought possible!
Support Smarter When Customer Happiness is Never a Priority, Does it Ever Become One? For a while, I’ve been trying to reconcile the idea that many huge companies purposefully avoid placing any effort on their customer service. And worse still, that we, as consumers, kind of let them. We fail to hold them accountable or really call them out on it.
Support Smarter The Truth is Comparisons are Awful Comparisons should be great for customers to find the right fit, but the truth is they don't work. Let me tell you why...
Support Smarter Why We Avoid Discounts and Deals January is an inexplicably long month. 🕰 Perhaps it’s a kind of repercussion from taking a longer break over the “holiday period”, coupled with the long nights and cold, overcast days. Or maybe it’s just some psychobabble illusion that we’ve all bought into. Who knows! 🤷🏻‍♂️ For me, January&
Support Smarter A Rose by any Other Name A few weeks ago, I got the opportunity to chat with our customers and friends at Referral Rock [https://referralrock.com/], about all things referral marketing, customer success, and putting people first [https://blog.helpdocs.io/referrals-culture-and-putting-people-first/]. It was enlightening, and while I’m a
Support Smarter My Ever Changing Expectations of Service Levels It’s 30 celsius outside. In fact, it might be more but I’m too comfortable working from the air-conned executive lounge to step out into the bustling boulevard of Panama City and find out. I’m sure it would look like it’s 30 degrees as I peer
Support Smarter The Truth Is You Might Not Need a Knowledge Base Over the past few weeks, I’d been preparing myself for my first ever webinar, in partnership with our friends at Gorgias. Sid from Gorgias came up with the idea of a webinar around scaling support during the holidays without hiring, and I agreed to deliver a part about creating
Support Smarter Filtering my Negativity as a Crappy Customer It turns out, I’m a crappy customer. Not to open with a blog post cliché, but honestly, this really is a tough one to admit. 'Cause nobody wants to accept they are, in fact, a bit of a douche canoe. You see, I am naturally quite a cynical