At Geckoboard we’re big fans of removing complexity where it’s not needed, so we were particularly excited last week when our friends at Zendesk launched The Zendesk Suite!

This is the first part in our new mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.

In a busy sales team it’s almost impossible for everyone to know how the team is doing at any given moment and how individuals are contributing towards goals. Yet sharing up-to-date performance data with a live TV dashboard can have a huge positive impact on a team’s overall performance.

Avail is building a community of responsible landlords and tenants by providing them with education, end-to-end tools, such as tenant screening, and customer service to support them in their rental experience. In this guest post, Co-founder and CTO Laurence Jankelow talks about how the Avail team went from pulling in different directions to uniting behind key KPIs and how that focus allowed them to scale.

Customer service is changing. Gone are the days when it was perfectly acceptable to respond to a customer in a day or two. Nowadays, whether you’re selling cars, consulting, or carrots, customers expect fast, friendly resolutions to their problems in minutes, not days.

CharlieHR is a two-year-old London-based startup that created a free platform to help small businesses manage everything related to human resources. They are 18 people strong, used by a few thousand companies all over the world, and successfully just launched a paid version of their software.

Today we’re excited to announce a brand new integration with Freshdesk that makes it easier than ever before for Freshdesk customers to stay focused on delivering exceptional customer support.