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ProProfs Help Desk Editorial Team is a passionate group of customer service experts dedicated to improving your help desk operations with top-notch content. We stay ahead of the curve on trends, tackle technical hurdles, and provide practical tips to boost your business. With our commitment to quality and integrity, you can be confident you're getting the most reliable resources to enhance your customer support initiatives.

Articles by ProProfs Editorial Team

10 Ways to Customize Your Help Desk Software

Are you looking for customizable help desk software that fits perfectly into your team? Let’s be honest, despite having similar goals, no two customers service teams are the same. They differ in aspects such as team size, workflow, hierarchy, and even how they monitor their performance.  The best thing about help desk customization is that...
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Zendesk vs. Freshdesk Comparison: Which Help Desk Should You Choose?

For any small business, a single support email account is sufficient for managing customer problems. But once you scale past that, you need the best help desk software to ensure every customer issue is seen, prioritized, and responded to.  As soon as you reach this stage, you are faced with a dilemma – in the...
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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Service Training & Onboarding

Have you ever contacted a business for support only to be misguided by an agent? Or maybe the agent treated you more like a “ticket” than an actual human being with emotions?  Yes, sadly, we have all been there. So as a business owner, how do you avoid such horrific situations and build your customer...
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What is Automated Ticket Routing? Benefits, Steps & More

The recipe to bake awesome customer service is indeed very simple – be fast, accurate, and consistent with your responses. But why are businesses unable to cook what they had promised? What ingredient are they missing?  The missing ingredient can be automation technology. Even a simple feature such as automated ticket routing can help you...
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What is SaaS Customer Support?

SaaS or software as a service is a profitable business model. You create an awesome product, spend a little on marketing, acquire new users, and voila, profits roll in. But when users are stuck somewhere, how do you offer awesome SaaS customer support?  Due to the laser-sharp focus on development and sales, SaaS customer support...
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How to Reduce Customer Support Costs for Your Business

Just like sales or marketing, customer service teams are always under the pressure to reduce customer service costs and stick to “the budget”.  But with never-ending phone calls and flooded inboxes, how do you improve the customer support experience without spending some dollars?  keeping your service costs down does not mean ignoring customer satisfaction. It...
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What Are Help Desk Mission and Vision Statements?

Imagine your employees coming to work each day full of purpose and with a strong belief in your company’s values. They strongly relate to the good that your brand brings to the world and think they have found the most valuable thing – “meaning in life”.  Sounds like a Disney movie, right? Well, it can...
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10 Help Desk Response Templates to Save Time

The best inventions in life are often small but make a HUGE impact. Think of a matchstick, paperclips, or in the modern world – help desk response templates.  Yes, templates have made the world a better place for customer service representatives. Instead of stressfully typing the same response a million times over, they can use...
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Top 10 Groove Alternatives & Competitors for 2024

Groove is a simple shared inbox tool that allows support agents to organize, prioritize and solve customer requests.  But can we consider it a full-fledged help desk system?  Not really! My personal experience with the tool revealed numerous challenges — limited inboxes, unresponsive customer support, and the absence of the chatbot feature.  Allow me to...
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10 Best Freshservice Alternatives for 2024

Freshservice is one of the popular support solutions used by world-class businesses. Despite this, the platform falls short in some areas.  Users are usually frustrated by Freshservice’s high pricing and complex features, and with so many Freshservice alternatives available, finding the best one can be daunting. Just when I got to know that many others...
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