A few years ago, I was growing a marketing agency. Most of the time, I was working 70-80 hours a week, if not more. (I was much younger then, and I thought I could handle it.) This went on for a couple of years. Week in, week out. Until one day, I just totally burned out. It took me weeks to begin to recover from that episode. And then I vowed never to burn out again.
Using Slack to communicate with your on-site or remote team? Slack is a name that’s synonymous with text-based, workplace communication. But did you know that with the right integrations, you can even track time in Slack? In this article, we’ll first highlight why you should set up Slack time tracking. We’ll also highlight the best integrations that can help you easily track time in Slack.
We began this blog series with Part 1 on how to use reports from your B2B customer support software solution to interpret key data and implement strategies as a result. In Part 2 we explored how to use reporting to determine how happy your customers are and what to do if they’re not. We conclude this series with Part 3 where we walk you through how to make strategic business decisions based on trends.
For the past 15 years, there's been a shift in how people work, where they work from and how they connect to "work". Employees are no longer tethered to headquarters, their offices or tied to slower complicated VPN services. Additionally, the way people work and where they work from has changed. Along with flexible work hours, employees want workplace flexibility. And with such a competitive job market, employers have to deliver! Flexible work environments offer tremendous benefits such as improved productivity and morale, reduced stress levels and better work-life balance which builds trust and commitment.
When’s the last time you called a major corporation and hung up, thinking, “Wow, what amazing customer service!” Mature enterprise companies often struggle to meet customer expectations. They’re often slow to integrate their customer service software with new support channels and integrations. Partially, this is because legacy brands still rely on the traditional methods they were founded upon.
Mattermost and Jitsi—open source, self-hosted alternatives to Slack and Zoom—now integrate! With the Mattermost Jitsi plugin, Mattermost users can now instantly launch secure Jitsi voice, video and screen-sharing calls, either on-prem with the self-hosted Jitsi software or via the cloud with Jitsi Meet.
Have you switched to remote work, but are finding it challenging to manage your remote team? Managing remote teams can be challenging, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most companies have to go through many significant changes like, altering the company culture and creating new channels for virtual communication. But if you have the right tools at hand, you have nothing to worry about! In this article, we’ll highlight 6 types of tools to help you better manage your remote team.
Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. You wouldn’t expect your loved ones to read your mind, would you? (Ahem..at least not all of the time) So why should your customers and employees have to do all of the guesswork? The single biggest mistake most companies make is the failure to communicate, losing their customers’ interest, and sometimes even their trust. And without internal communication with their team, businesses would simply cease to exist.
Experiencing a PR faux pas is inevitable no matter how hard you try to avoid it for your brand. The risk of making an embarrassing mistake is all the more heightened because customers are constantly engaged with your brand through digital channels. A small mistake can be overblown and become viral on the web within an hour. “Even the best intentions can be misread by customers, and oftentimes it takes a lot of work to undo even a simple error,” explains Dan Fries, PR adviser at BlueTree.
Building a user community is one of the most valuable things a business can do for both its brand and its customers. When you bring customers together to learn from each other, everyone wins. Creating an online community space is one thing, but actually getting people to show up and use it regularly is the harder part. Badges are a powerful tool for increasing engagement in an online community.
