As a manager handling a team of employees who go on-site and resolve customer issues related to your product/service, buying field service management (FSM) software to help you manage the workload of your team is critical—especially as your business scales and the team grows. However, such a purchase decision will often require management buy-in. The management needs to completely understand the ROI associated with such a product.

If you are working from home for the first time, you may have needed some time to figure out what works best for you. However, when you’re asked to do this for the very first time in a limited timeframe, what do you do then? You turn to someone who has done this before, made mistakes and learned from them, and knows the best practices like the back of their hands.

Happy customers are key to a successful business. They are also your biggest marketing strategy and greatest promoter. But at the same time, if a dissatisfied customer vents about your company to other people, it will have a huge negative impact on your business. With customer support constantly evolving, choosing the right type of customer service for your business might seem challenging.

Telecommuting or remote working is no longer only a strategy to scale up your customer service or globally distributing your support teams. It’s a growing necessity that is more about future-proofing your customer service against business-related uncertainties. Apart from being a developing global necessity, the need for telecommuting also entails the preferences of workers.

Field technicians, as part of their service workflow, are required to execute certain repetitive tasks each day. These tasks improve information dissemination across teams, ensure that the documentation for every service request or task is up-to-date, and help visibility and coordination between helpdesk and field teams. These tasks are of paramount importance for your support and field teams to function smoothly.

Brands such as Google and Facebook have recently announced that they plan on working remotely for the foreseeable future, (or even forever in the case of Twitter). Whether your business is going to follow suit or not, there is one thing that has clearly stood out in the past few months of this new normal – your work-from-home experience is only as good as the tools you use to enable remote work.

Customer service is not as easy as you think it to be. Since customer service represents the face of your company to customers, your support team should be very careful when handling customers and customer issues. One wrong move and it can bring down the reputation of your company. Whether you’re considering a career in customer support or you are looking to hire a customer service representative, here is what you need to know.