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I was not using any kind of support ticket software that would help manage the way I communicated with them. I just trusted good ‘ol email to talk to them, no management software or anything like that which I though was “fancy”. Very soon, as I started to get more customers, I started getting more support questions and I started to work harder to keep my customers informed. At the same time something I didn’t expect started happening: Even though I was spending several hours everyday answering all the questions I received, I started to get all these emails from those same customers complaining how I wasn’t responding to their suppor Web Minstry - Not For The Average Pastor! ng my hat for nickels on the city.Recently I was working with a church to develop a new church web presence. The process started over 3 years ago when a church member worked on the site and it was merely a page that could not be updated by anyone except him. 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Very soon, as I started to get more customers, I started getting more support questions and I started to work harder to keep my customers informed. At the same time something I didn’t expect started happening: Even though I was spending several hours everyday answering all the questions I received, I started to get all these emails from those same customers complaining how I wasn’t responding to their suppo Workplace Bullying management software or anything like that which I though was “fancy”.75% of victims eventually left an organization because of bullying. 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If you have weather issues or cannot get to an account on your regular schedule the customer mayb I don’t know about you, but when you’re going the extra mile for your customers, giving them the best support you can, it becomes something very frustrating to know that they are not receiving it. I remember being very upset (to use a nice word) with the spam filters because it was making me lose a lot of money by getting refunds from customers that I just couldn’t reach. I tried every solution in the book. I tried tweaking my email settings, changing servers, having customers sign up from two different email addresses, and I would still get the same problem like a broken record. I didn’t even think a support ticket software could help me. One day, I remember having a customer who was pretty upset because he though I wasn’t responding to his emails. I called him up and walked him through his questions and apologized because although I was answering his support issues, it was fundamentally my fault for not using a better delivery s
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