You’ve given them countless product demos. Made executive trips to their headquarters. Answered their questions on Saturday mornings. Invited their European team out to dinner. Your team put in the work and finally won the deal. Congratulations! Now, is it really on to the next one? For sales yes, but for your entire company it definitely shouldn’t be. More companies are spending additional time and resources on improving the B2B post-sale experience of their customers. Why?

With the launch of iPhone 11 - Apple users can now enable spatial sound. To give you a bit of background, spatial sound creates a virtual surround sound feeling for conference calls. In essence, spatial sound creates the sense that you and other people on the call are located in the same room. Through your headphones, voices will feel like they are coming from different angles - creating the sounding illusion that colleagues are sitting around you.

You may have noticed a lot of recent changes with the mobile apps. Rocket.Chat has been maintaining two native versions of the mobile app, one for Android and one for iOS. This has proved to be quite problematic and we had to split our resources which is inefficient. We therefore made the decision to build a new app based on a common framework. After months of deliberation, testing, and lots of community help, we have finally decided to move to the proven React Native framework.

Exciting news for Riot users today as New Vector (the company set up by the team behind Matrix & Riot to keep development going) has raised an additional $8.5M of funding in order to make Riot even better!

Today, users are very savvy. With a tap of a button, people can rent, buy, lease, sell, talk, chat and basically can do everything one needs in day to day aspect of life. From a business perspective, companies are finding new ways to engage users to do business. The new startups have advantage in that they start fresh, but we have also seen companies pushing digital transformation to either adopt or perish to be meaningful in today’s demanding environment.

As a growing customer service team, consistently delivering moments of WOW while maintaining a positive culture along the way is just one of the challenges you’re likely to face. That’s alongside the growing pains of dealing with waves of new people joining the company, lots of change and unknowns, new processes and guidelines, dealing with legacy customers and agents who are used to a different style of support… the list goes on.

We make choices all day, from the clothes we put on to what we’re having for dinner. In the workplace, the decisions we make for our team members trickle down to customers. Outfits and dinner are highly personal — it’s nobody’s business how many times this week you wore the same pants and ate mac and cheese. But when it comes to decisions that affect our teams, how do we know we’re making the right choice?

Customers are king and in order to treat them like royalty, your customer service team needs to deliver the best experience every time. That’s why customer service professionals should strive to master these five customer service techniques:

With the whole world flocking towards IoT market, businesses are rushing themselves to produce more and more smart devices. Even though its first foundation was laid in the late 1980s by students from Carnegie Mellon University, the actual boom began when the thought model for future interconnection environment was proposed, in 2004.

People are talking about you—and, let’s be honest, you might not like what they’re saying. Customers will always be discussing your products and services out in the wild—conversations between real human beings, from power users sharing their knowledge to folks just ramping up seeking tips and tricks. Even if you don’t always like what you see, you definitely need to be part of the conversation.