One of the areas that extremely fast-growing startups tend to forget about as they scale is customer service – we’ve heard stories of how some founders have been forced to man customer support hotlines when their services go down, which is usually a sign of how such support is lacking.
But can also be extremely pricey to provide sufficient redundancy in customer service support, and outsourcing it (especially overseas) can sometimes be detrimental to the business. To this effect, many startups are turning to self-service support, where sufficient resources are provided to help customers resolve their own problems.
Here’s an infographic from Salesforce’s Desk.com that shows you some of the numbers around self-service support:
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