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Expert customer support help by people who love people.

Lessons from Saddleback: Just be nice!

One of my favorite stories of customer care is Saddleback Leather‘s entire freaking website. What a gem! Take a few minutes to read their warranty page and you can see why I’m so in love with their style: All of our products are fully warranted against all defects in materials and workmanship for 100 years.…
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November 8, 2013 0

Scaling Support: When & How

The lifecycle of app development is pretty standard: you come up with an idea, hire a designer, hire some programmers, then you take it to market. Customer support is very rarely part of this equation from the beginning. Support is almost always an afterthought, and only becomes a priority when you’re suddenly drowning in support…
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November 6, 2013 0

Managing your busy-ness

Since June 1, I’ve been on and off 40 planes in 20 different cities. Needless to say, this has killed my schedule and made me feel totally unproductive and “busy” – that awful word everyone keeps using like it means something. Let’s be honest here: You aren’t busy, you are just disorganized and things aren’t…
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November 4, 2013 0