For all the many, many tools and services your business might be using day-to-day, there’s a good chance your most important business metrics are stored in a humble database. First developed in the late 1970s, SQL databases remain the de facto medium for logging and storing important business information, from sign-ups to stock levels - important business information that would be useful to display on a TV dashboard if only there was an easy way to do so...

This is the fourth part in our mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.

This is the third part in our mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.

Heather Jones joined Geckoboard as Customer Success Champion in 2017. She has a keen interest in AI and last year she built Geckoboard’s first Customer Success Bot. Here she tells us what’s happened since then.

This is the second part in our mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.

At Geckoboard we’re big fans of removing complexity where it’s not needed, so we were particularly excited last week when our friends at Zendesk launched The Zendesk Suite!

This is the first part in our new mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.

In a busy sales team it’s almost impossible for everyone to know how the team is doing at any given moment and how individuals are contributing towards goals. Yet sharing up-to-date performance data with a live TV dashboard can have a huge positive impact on a team’s overall performance.

Avail is building a community of responsible landlords and tenants by providing them with education, end-to-end tools, such as tenant screening, and customer service to support them in their rental experience. In this guest post, Co-founder and CTO Laurence Jankelow talks about how the Avail team went from pulling in different directions to uniting behind key KPIs and how that focus allowed them to scale.

Customer service is changing. Gone are the days when it was perfectly acceptable to respond to a customer in a day or two. Nowadays, whether you’re selling cars, consulting, or carrots, customers expect fast, friendly resolutions to their problems in minutes, not days.