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What is Email Tracking and How to Use it for Customer Service

People barely consider email tracking to be a new thing these days. Salespeople and marketers have been using it for the last 15 to 20 years to engage with leads in a better manner and develop an email marketing strategy that actually delivers! Some of you might be wondering – what exactly is email tracking? And is there a hidden opportunity to use email tracking to provide better customer service? Keep reading to find out.

Part 2: Ouch! Solve the pain caused by your current B2B customer support system.

The right B2B customer support software means never having to say goodbye. In our first blog post in this four-part series we introduced the top pain points reported by B2B customer support professionals and how the right B2B customer support software will help you solve for all of them, starting with using a B2B help desk ticketing system instead of your inbox to resolve issues in a more timely, efficient manner.

How to Be Productive at Home?

According to a survey by Workopolis, 90% of people believe that Telecommuting contributes to more productivity. However, these are the people who have had a practice of working from home, unlike most employees today, who find themselves in an unprecedented situation in the year 2020 as a global pandemic rages and their bosses have ordained work from home as mandatory. Initially, the new work order may look heaven-sent and a miracle.

10 tips for setting engineering goals from Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey

As an engineering leader, one of the greatest gifts you can give your team is clarity of purpose, plan, and responsibility. Recently, Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey sat down with Plato to discuss why clarity is so important and how it impacts goals. Here are some of his insights and advice for setting engineering goals that are transparent and empowering to team members, no matter where in the world they’re working.

The Power of Business Process Management (in Facts and Figures)

As one observer noted, even large disasters like Chernobyl didn’t completely stem from a lack of documentation. This crisis caused so much damage because people failed to follow the planned and documented processes in time. While it’s important to document processes, no flowcharts or instructions will help businesses run more efficiently or overcome unexpected unusual obstacles if nobody follows them.

10 Marketplace Apps to Help You Fire on All Cylinders Even as You Adjust to the New Normal

With the staggered re-opening of businesses following the shutdown, it’s time for customer support teams to up the ante on customer experience. After all, customers have also had to endure the ordeal and the last thing they want is a heated argument on the phone with a support agent over a refund. We believe the following apps will help you become more customer-centric in your approach and provide pre-COVID levels of service to all your customers.

Layered store and struct embedding in Go

One of the most important parts of the Mattermost source code is the one responsible for accessing the Mattermost database: the store. Every single database access is handled by the store, so we needed to find a way to extend its functionality while introducing as little complexity as possible. This is the reason behind the current layered approach using struct embedding.

11 Inexpensive Team Chat Software & App for Modern Office in 2020

If you’re still using emails to exchange work messages, who better than you can understand the problem of endless email chains, annoying CC’s, and accidental Reply All’s? While emails have a certain charm, they’re not the best tool for internal communication. If you use email for work chat, reviewing all the conversations about a single project requires sifting through multiple email chains.

11 Sophisticated Team Chat Apps & Software to end endless email Threads

If you’re still using emails to exchange work messages, who better than you can understand the problem of endless email chains, annoying CC’s, and accidental Reply All’s? While emails have a certain charm, they’re not the best tool for internal communication. If you use email for work chat, reviewing all the conversations about a single project requires sifting through multiple email chains.

Part 1: Ouch! Solve the pain caused by your current B2B customer support system.

Has your Inbox has screamed, “Enough!” because of all of the e-mails related to support tickets piled up? This is one of the top pain points reported by B2B customer support professionals, and this four-part blog series will explore how the right B2B customer support software will help you solve for all of them.