Customer Support

Great customer service is fast, accurate, and consistent in every reply. This category helps support agents, customer success managers, and call center leaders get there. You’ll find canned responses and live chat scripts, empathy statements, interview questions for hiring agents, guidance on CSAT, NPS, and other CX metrics, and comparisons of support tools. Each guide includes examples you can adapt and save as snippets, so your team can answer common questions in seconds.

Consistency in Customer Service: 3 Areas Where It’s a Must

Consistency in customer service builds trust because customers know what to expect every time. Learn what reliable service looks like, why predictable support is a strength, and how to keep text-based replies consistent.

Josh Centers

Chatbots in Customer Service: 8 Reasons for High Standards

Chatbots in customer service often frustrate customers when they misunderstand simple requests. See the standards chatbots need to meet for clear communication, and an alternative that keeps human agents in the conversation.

Josh Centers

TextExpander Is Now a SugarCRM Partner 

TextExpander is now a SugarCRM partner, available as an add-on for Sugar users. See how Snippets help sales and marketing teams enter tags, customer descriptions, industries, and titles in SugarCRM quickly and consistently.

Marcelle Santos

31 Ways to Respond to Customer Complaints

Responding to customer complaints well can keep customers who might otherwise leave. Use 31 sample responses and a step-by-step approach to thanking, apologizing, empathizing, offering solutions, and following up.

Marcelle Santos

How Do You Make Customers Feel Special?

Making customers feel special takes more than low prices. Ways to stand out include doing first-class work, giving recognition, showing respect, hiring staff who care, surprising customers, and using a CRM well.

Brad McCarty

How to Grow Customer Service at Your Startup

Startup customer service needs to scale alongside the business. Get feedback early, educate customers, start conversations, choose the right tools, hire carefully, and track the numbers that show how support is performing.

Brad McCarty

Tips to Optimize Your Customer Service Call Center

Improving a customer service call center starts with defining the problem and setting clear goals. Get three improvement strategies, five helpful tools such as HelpScout and TextExpander, and the metrics worth tracking.

Brad McCarty

Tips that Everyone in Customer Service Should Know

Good customer service comes from clear personality traits and communication habits. Get tips on being friendly, professional, and yourself, then listening, avoiding judgment, restating problems, and remembering the person.

Brad McCarty