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How we're making remote IT work

One day you’re grabbing your to-go latte, responding to Slack messages on your subway commute, and arriving at work to find a coworker waiting by your desk with a broken computer… and the next, you find yourself at home, sipping on plain old drip coffee while making huge decisions about remote work that will affect your entire organization – all with only a day’s notice.

How to plan a virtual event - even when your team is remote

You suddenly need to organize a virtual event in a matter of days, but your team – and possibly your audience – is all remote. How can you be agile and quickly transition to remote planning for a large virtual event? And once it’s planned, how do you actually pull it off? This may sounds like an impossible task, but don’t worry – we’ve put together this guide based on learnings from our online conference, Distributed, to help you get started.

How to Build a Customer Service Operations Team that Elevates your Support

To deliver the perfect customer experience, activities such as creating efficient processes and workflows, quality management, planning shift schedules, etc. are absolutely critical. These come under the umbrella of customer service operations, a core capability that helps scale and improve the level of customer support offered by your company. So who ensures support operation tasks are ideated and executed well so that your customer service standards do not drop?

Sick of TeamViewer? Try these 7 Free alternative to TeamViewer

Looking for free alternatives to TeamViewer? We hear you Fortunately, when it comes to finding a better TeamViewer alternative, there are a variety of options and discussion on Reddit. But before we look at the best alternatives, let’s review why TeamViewer may not always be a perfect choice. One of the reasons why TeamViewer users want to migrate to a different remote desktop access software is that it is not free for commercial use. The plans are expensive.

How to Identify and Fix Your Customers' Pain Points

If your customers succeed, you succeed. So it’s critical for your Customer Success team to work closely with your customers and understand the needs and specific problems they face. However, that’s easier said than done. You’ll need to develop a keen understanding of your customers and their various pain points. In this piece, we’re going to lend you a helping hand. We’ll dive deeper into the science of pain points by covering the following: Let’s get started!

How to Motivate Your Remote Teams

Have you ever wondered what keeps you motivated at work? Is it a word of appreciation from a colleague? Healthy competition between you and your teammates? Or a coffee-break that you spend catching up on a game or just getting a breather? Motivating factors like these work best in an office environment. However, things are different when you’re working from home.

11 Tips to Select the Best Field Service Management Software

When you order something on e-commerce sites like Amazon or order food online, tracking your delivery is very seamless. It shows they have a field service management software in place, enabling you to track everything within your app. Reaching out to field service technicians like electricians and plumbers also involves managing and planning field service.

The 3 Secrets to a Great B2B Customer Support Team

Creating a great support team isn’t something that happens in a day, a week, or even a month. It’s a long-term goal for many companies, and even when they get there, it’s important to sustain that excellence over time, particularly as the company grows. The pressure to maintain a high level of support exists because of the impact the support team has on their business’ reputation.