If you've typed the same explanation more than a few times this week, that's usually a sign a good doc is waiting to be written. And your future teammates will thank you for it.
๐จ Help is on the way, dear! ๐จ
SLAs mean every conversation comes with a clear target, visible progress, and the context your team needs to stay on track.
Itโs a simpler way to keep work moving as your support volume grows.
Now available in Help Scout. โจ
You don't always have to wait for a role to exist before you can grow into it.
Kristi Thompson shares how small, consistent acts of visibility (nothing fancy) eventually led to a new customer success job being created for her. Worth a watch. ๐
https://t.co/V1o0rzl66f
First contact resolution is one of the best signals you have, not because the number looks good, but because it usually means your team really understood the problem.
Automation isn't lazy. But bad automation is.
Use templates for repetitive tasks, but personalize where it counts. That's how you keep empathy alive at scale.
Hot take: AI-generated review responses are making the internet unreadable.
"We are so glad to hear that you love {Product} because {Same Thing You Just Said}!"
Customers notice. Here's what to do instead:
https://t.co/aIFWPnQHMd
Your knowledge base is only as good as your team's willingness to update it!
Schedule quarterly reviews. Track which articles get the most views. Fix the gaps before customers find them.
#customersupport
Chrissy Chavez has all the best tips for Challenge #4 of Support in Bloom. She's gonna tell you how to be mindful about your career growth. ๐
You don't have to work on it every single day; it can be something that naturally grows with you over time.
Need some inspo for Support in Bloom Challenge #3? Patto has some rock-solid advice about how one company's initiative to surface support insights helped make for an even better product (and an emptier queue).
Ben's tips for Support In Bloom Challenge #2? Find the thing that makes you better, not busier!
He's here to tell you all about the ๐ Pomodoro Technique ๐ and how a simple change in how we worked made him so much better at solving tough problems.
Zendesk said to call your mom, so Hillary Noble did; Pam was not helpful. ๐ซ
Here's the thing, people don't just want *a* human. They want the *right* human, with the context and tools to actually help.
Great support is built on real relationships, not workarounds. ๐
You don't have to have it all figured out to start moving. ๐ฑ
Kristi Ernst Thompson went from email support to Customer Success Manager, not by waiting for the perfect plan, but by trying things and paying attention to what worked.
#career#careeradvice