[This article was originally published by WordRake.] Publication date: October 7, 2024 If you’re a heartbroken poet living in an unheated garret in Paris, there’s no doubt your writing process...
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Use Customers’ Questions to Develop a Better Template for Knowledge Articles
To write great knowledge base articles, you should think like a tailor. To make a bespoke suit jacket, a tailor takes many measurements, everything from the width of the shoulders to the...
How to Edit and Proofread Your Writing: Nine Tips for People Who Hate to Reread
[This article was originally published by WordRake.] Publication date: June 11, 2024 I’m weird. I love editing. With a finished draft in hand, I’m eager to ask myself editing questions like “Is this...
Use Chat GPT to help you write social media responses to customers
“Too long, uncaring, and off-brand.” Three criticisms you never want to hear about your social media responses to customers! But it can be difficult to write posts that are short enough, empathetic...
The “Bite, Snack, Meal” Approach Helps You Feed Content-Hungry Readers
[This article was originally published by WordRake.] Publication date: April 10, 2024 “How hungry is my reader?” When we sit down to write a web page, report, proposal, or blog post, we’re often...
Can AI Fix the Employee Experience for Frontline Customer Service Reps?
A version of this blog first appeared on the North Bridge Group website. Publication date: March 10, 2024 You’re a CSR, and there’s so much you hate about your job. Customers shriek at you all day....
Fix These Four Live Chat Mistakes Or Lose Customers
Chat has been around forever and customers love the channel. They choose chat when they need to multitask, when they want a written record of the agent’s instructions they can refer to later, and...
Customer Service, Not Marketing, Should Respond to Complaints on Social Media
I’m not sure whether it’s a turf battle, a sibling rivalry, or a custody fight, but whatever is going on between the Customer Service Team and the Marketing Team is hurting customers who reach out...
Your Chatbot Needs Better Small Talk
If you work in customer care, you’ve been talking about chatbots for about a decade. Your organization may have been using a chatbot for almost that long. You’ve heard or participated in all the...
How to Develop a Quick Start Guide That Prevents Calls and Emails
To help customers get up to speed with a product or service, companies offer many types of documentation: user manuals, video tutorials, in-product help, even good old FAQs. Why? Because customers...
What’s a Quick Start Guide and Why Do Your Customers Want One?
You want to help your customers, you really do. So you write a gorgeous 75-page User Manual, which answers every conceivable question your customer might have about using your product or service....
Four Ways to Fix a Bad Knowledge Base Article
Maintaining a knowledge base full of well written articles is as difficult as keeping a preschool playroom tidy. Here’s why. Some KB articles are created to meet an emergency need, and they’re...