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Productivity often feels too much like a fleeting moment than a focused channel. It’s too tempting to open a new browser tab, check your phone, or (if you’re like me) pace madly around your desk in a reluctance to sit still. Capturing that moment of focus and stretching it as far as you can is the key to finding the productivity groove you’re seeking on a daily basis. Easier said than done, right?

Yesterday's extraordinary is today's ordinary

Why are companies increasingly competing on customer experience? Think about how high the bar’s been raised by disruptive brands like Uber and Amazon—we’ve latched onto innovative concepts like on-demand transportation and same-day deliveries as though they’ve been around for decades, proving that customers aren’t averse to change when it results in greater convenience.

How To Improve Customer Service With Helpdesk Automations

No matter the industry, region or product — the true goal of all customer support teams is not just to provide assistance when a customer reaches out, but to deliver moments of ‘wow’ to each customer. However, as the importance of great support grows, so does its complexity. Customers can now reach out through emails, calls or live-chat, follow-up on social media, leave reviews on public forums and they expect regular updates to keep track of their issue.

Get These Freshworks Marketplace Apps to Simplify Your Tasks

Welcome to yet another app round-up where we have put together some of the recently added Marketplace apps. We are on the road to reaching 800 apps across our three flagship products—Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshsales—by the end of this month. And very soon, you will be able to view and access Freshchat apps on the Marketplace. In the meantime, let’s take a look at the dozen-odd apps that have hit the Marketplace these past few weeks.

Beyond "buy 10 get one free": What is customer loyalty?

Every company dreams of amassing a huge fan base of intensely loyal customers, but true customer loyalty is hard to earn and doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and dedication. Many companies struggle to answer the question: What exactly does real customer loyalty look like? And the next logical question is: How can a business build customer loyalty?

Rocketium's Secret Sauce to Customer Support

Rocketium is a cloud-based software that lets users create, automate, and edit their own videos with text, images, voiceovers, footage, and motion graphics. When I added their brand’s email as an example in one of my articles, their CEO, Satej Sirur was kind enough to give us a thumbs up. Fast forward to today, here’s a detailed secret sauce interview on how customer support works at Rocketium, the tools they use, the strategies that have made them successful, and much more.

Why Efficient Customer Service is Valuable to B2B Companies

Please hold. There are 12 callers ahead of you. Your business is important to us. This scenario is still far too common in customer support, even in the B2B (business-to-business) industry where the average customer value is higher and business relationships matter more. Sometimes waiting on hold for a half hour may be because of understaffing. But, other times it’s simply due to an inefficient customer service team.