Jared Cornell

Jared Cornell

Jared is a customer support expert. He has been published in CrazyEgg, CoSchedule, and CXL. As a customer support executive at ProProfs, he has been instrumental in developing a complete customer support system that more than doubled customer satisfaction. You can connect and engage with Jared on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

My Articles

Top 10 osTicket Alternatives for 2023

osTicket is a renowned ticketing system built to improve your customer service and experience. With this platform, customer service teams can create custom ticket queues, configure help topics, route tickets to the right agents, and create an extensive customer portal for happy customers.  But let’s call a spade a spade- osTicket is not the perfect...
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12 Best Email Ticketing Systems for Customer Support in 2023

Are innumerable support emails choking your inbox? Is it hard to manage and prioritize customer conversations? Does team collaboration lead to more chaos than order? If you answered yes, it might be the right time to invest in the best email ticketing systems. An email ticketing software can help you manage your email support traffic,...
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10 Most Common Help Desk Problems & How to Solve Them

No matter if you run a small online store or a large multinational business, you are bound to receive problems from your employees as well as customers. However, the “real problem” starts when your help desk is bombarded with innumerable issues, and things seem to spiral out of control.  The good news is that most...
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Retail Customer Service Tips & Examples Every Retail Business Needs to Know

Have you ever tried shooting a 3-pointer in a basketball game, that too at the last minute while everyone is counting on you? Now, imagine doing the same while riding a bicycle with your eyes closed.  In a very similar fashion, the world of retail customer service is not easy and it’s definitely not for...
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Reduce Your Help Desk Calls in 10 Easy Ways

We all are familiar with that comforting voice greeting us and telling us- “I’m here to help you. I will surely find a way to resolve your issue.”  Customers simply love phone support. A good reason why the phone remains the most preferred channel for customers is that it shows great potential for empathy. After...
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Personalized Customer Experience: What, How, and Why

There is this thing about contemporary customers- they have changed. A lot!  They no longer want to settle for generic products or experiences and rather want everything to resonate with their personal tastes. But with your customer base growing into leaps and bounds, how do you craft a unique, personalized customer experience for everyone, every...
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What Is The Difference Between Help Desk And Desktop Support?

Technical jargon has always been a nightmare even for technical experts, let alone entrepreneurs.  In order to prepare a robust support strategy, you need to clearly define the roles and functions of your teams as well as processes. However, a real problem begins when your business starts using two different terms such as help desk...
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How to Reduce Support Ticket Volume in 15 Sure-Fire Ways

Customer service teams share one common goal- to delight every single customer that needs assistance.  But can you really inch closer to this goal when your ticket backlog runs in hundreds or thousands?  It has become common for businesses to complain about a sluggish support process, overworked agents, skyrocketing response times, complaining customers, and a...
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Help Desk Glossary: 60+ Terms to Better Understand Your Help Desk

Anyone new to the customer service landscape knows that getting a firm grip on hundreds of terms and abbreviations can be quite challenging.  Do help desk terms seem like an alien language?  To save you from the trouble of going to Google for every new term and help you better run your help desk software,...
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