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“Sensible” Support Policies and their Unintended CX Consequences

January 27, 2017 by David Kay

TL;DR: It’s better to trust and empower Tier 1 than to make customers run through the gauntlet because you only allow Tier 3 to do certain things. I want to […]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Intelligent Swarming, Rants

Free Your Knowledge Base

August 8, 2014 by David Kay

Some good reasons to put your knowledge base on the Internet–and some outdated myths that keep it locked up behind a customer login today.

Filed Under: Customer Experience, KM, Rants, self-service

Technology Should Enable, Not Enforce

April 15, 2014 by David Kay

We spend a lot of time—an inordinate amount of time—talking with people about how to lock down permissions inside of knowledge management tools.  How to make sure Contributors can’t publish.  […]

Filed Under: Culture, Rants, Technology

What Does a Bad Knowledge-Sharing Culture Look Like?

September 6, 2012 by David Kay

Over the past ten years, we’ve had the opportunity to visit and work with fifty or sixty companies implementing knowledge management, self-service, and social support.  In the process, I’ve come […]

Filed Under: Culture, Rants

Worst customer service email ever?

February 25, 2011 by David Kay

Readers – I think a side benefit of writing a service and support blog is having a platform to hold really poor service up for ridicule…right?  We’ll get right back […]

Filed Under: Rants

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