Category: Service

When I worked in HubSpot Support, the real superstars weren’t just the reps who could crush fifty cases a day. The ones I admired most were the team members who built deep expertise and product knowledge, and that’s what knowledge-centered support (KCS) is all about. Knowledge-centered support is a methodology focused on capturing, structuring, sharing,…

If you want to learn how to build a survey, the most important thing to know is that an excellent survey respects your time. It should be succinct, ask the right questions, and provide valuable insights. As a respondent, I’m quick to bail if a survey is too long, confusing, and repetitive. If you want…

If you want to learn how to build a survey, the most important thing to know is that an excellent survey respects your time. It should be succinct, ask the right questions, and provide valuable insights. As a respondent, I’m quick to bail if a survey is too long, confusing, and repetitive. If you want…

An SEO knowledge base does everything a typical knowledge base does and more. It supports customers, ranks in Google, brings new traffic to your site, and builds your E-E-A-T. It’s tempting to de-index knowledge bases because they interfere with SEO, complicating keyword maps, impacting rankings, and causing cannibalization. But, done right, they’re a powerful SEO…

An SEO knowledge base does everything a typical knowledge base does and more. It supports customers, ranks in Google, brings new traffic to your site, and builds your E-E-A-T. It’s tempting to de-index knowledge bases because they interfere with SEO, complicating keyword maps, impacting rankings, and causing cannibalization. But, done right, they’re a powerful SEO…

Customers today want more than just products. We’re looking for solutions that work and experiences that are easy. And once we have the product, we want to get good at using it — quickly. This isn’t just a hunch of mine: an impressive 81% of customers try to solve issues themselves before they even think…

Customers today want more than just products. We’re looking for solutions that work and experiences that are easy. And once we have the product, we want to get good at using it — quickly. This isn’t just a hunch of mine: an impressive 81% of customers try to solve issues themselves before they even think…

I’ve learned firsthand how essential effective FAQ software is for smooth business operations. I was working with a classic VC-funded startup, Dapper Labs, and we were expanding rapidly. Our product evolved daily, and our excellent support team was overwhelmed. The cause? The same recurring questions: “How do I navigate this feature?” “When is the next…

I’ve learned firsthand how essential effective FAQ software is for smooth business operations. I was working with a classic VC-funded startup, Dapper Labs, and we were expanding rapidly. Our product evolved daily, and our excellent support team was overwhelmed. The cause? The same recurring questions: “How do I navigate this feature?” “When is the next…

This might be a strange personality quirk, but I love systems and processes — especially when they’re stored in a well-organized internal knowledge base. I’ve created training documents, where there were previously none, for my replacement when I was leaving several jobs. You can imagine how excited I was to join a company like HubSpot,…