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How to Prepare Your Freshdesk Support Portal for the Holiday Rush

Are the support team, website and Freshdesk portal ready to handle the customer influx of the holiday season? That’s the question we ask ourselves every year before the peak period starts. During the holiday season, the incoming traffic may increase by 10 times, whereas ticket volumes can increase by up to 50%, making the life of your agents exhausting and stressful.

Before and After Freshdesk Mint - The Support Agent Experience

Are support agents happy with Freshdesk Mint? This was the most pressing question we had on our minds when we introduced Freshdesk Mint a year back. Over months, we spoke to our customers to gather feedback on what people liked and disliked. We were delighted to learn that the overall feedback for Freshdesk Mint was very positive. But we didn’t just stop with customer interviews. Using Heap, an analytics tool, we analyzed product adoption to learn from our success and our mistakes.

20 Essential Features in a B2B Customer Support System

There are A LOT of features available for companies to choose from when deciding what’s important in their Business to Business (B2B) customer support software solution. We made this list to help companies think about the key features these solutions offer and their value. Without further ado, here’s our list of 20 essential features in a B2B customer support system.

4 Tools to Reduce Cost for SaaS Customer Support

Customer support can easily become a huge money pit instead of a tool for building revenue, no matter the industry you’re in. But if you’re a SaaS company, you know just how crucial it can be to keep costs down. Especially if you’re just getting started and your customer base isn’t large enough to support your operational costs just yet.

What's Good: Zendesk Answer Bot

Answer Bot works right alongside your support team. It uses machine learning to help answer your customers’ questions with content from your Zendesk Guide knowledge base. The answers it provides are tailored to each customer’s question accurately and reliably—every time. And when in doubt, Answer Bot loops in your support agents to offer the customer a human touch.

Do investors "punish" firms that suffer a data breach?

Nowadays, the press doesn’t have to look too far for the next cyber attack story! Whether it’s the surprise theft of customer data, like British Airways suffered this year, or a fresh Facebook hack, if there’s one thing we’ve learned this year – no one, regardless of size and sophistication, is immune to attack.