A shared inbox works fine as long as one person effectively owns the mailbox. Once several people answer it, though, and messages get replied to twice or not at all, support email needs tickets with an owner and a status. That’s the short answer to shared inbox vs help desk. So if your company has […]
A rep dials a customer to talk about an upgrade. Four hours earlier, that same person filed a furious ticket about a feature that stopped working. The rep has no idea. Meanwhile a support agent closes a ticket with a curt “resolved, let us know if it comes back” on an account sitting six weeks […]
Picture this. A customer fires off a question on Tuesday morning and then waits. By the time someone gets back to them two days later, they’ve already bought from a competitor who answered in twenty minutes. Slow replies don’t just annoy people. They quietly bleed revenue. Deals stall, irritated buyers go vent on social media, […]