By Profession

Find productivity advice written for your role. This section groups TextExpander’s guides by profession, so customer support agents, sales reps, recruiters, clinicians, developers and founders can go straight to the templates, scripts, metrics and workflows that matter in their day-to-day work. Each guide explains the task, shows real examples you can copy and covers how teams save time by standardizing the messages and notes they write most often.

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

Finding New Customers vs Nurturing Existing Ones

Growing sales means balancing new customer acquisition with nurturing existing ones. Compare what each group offers, then find practical ways to increase sales from current customers and reach new buyers.

Kerry Provenzano

Sourcing Principles and Strategies

Sourcing helps companies find candidates who aren't actively applying. Understand what sourcing is, its core principles of knowing hiring needs, meeting candidates where they are, and building relationships, plus tips.

Marcelle Santos

6 Strategies To Improve Sales Growth

Sales growth stalls when strategy loses focus on the customer. These six strategies cover defining a target customer and their problems, using social media with intent, human connection, retention, and competitor research.

Kerry Provenzano

Proven Sales Closing Questions & Phrases for 2026

Sales closing questions help turn a strong relationship into a signed deal. Find questions and phrases for confirming understanding, probing objections, building a tailored package, testing upsells, and asking for the sale.

Kerry Provenzano

Interviewing: the definitive guide

Effective interviewing is a learned skill, not a natural talent. Get the basics of hiring interviews, including the main interview types, building rapport, active listening, documenting answers, and analyzing what you learn.

Marcelle Santos

How To Be an Ally in the Workplace

Being an ally in the workplace starts with recognizing your own privilege. Understand why underrepresented groups need allies, which everyday actions help, and how allyship works as an ongoing practice rather than a task.

Marcelle Santos

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