The last thing startup founders want to think about is knowledge management. It’s way less exciting than shipping new products and features. It’s way less sexy than perfecting that design and brand. It’s most certainly way less exciting than fundraising and negotiating a term sheet. But, consider these situations that…
How startups achieve hockey stick growth with better communication and collaboration in Slack
Startups need every advantage they can gain if they want to achieve exponential growth depicted in pitch deck charts by the iconic shape of the most important piece of equipment for Canada’s favorite pass-time, the hockey stick. There are a lot of things that a startup needs to get right…
4 ways startups use KM tools to outrun the competition
If you’ve never worked at a startup, chances are that you’ve never quite felt the “hair on fire” moments that come with the rollercoaster ride of emotions experienced by its employees. It’s hard to describe other than to say it’s scary, exhilarating, stressful, fun, energizing and exhausting all at the…
Why Slack search isn’t enough for customer success teams
Chances are, your customer success team spends a good amount (probably a majority) of their day in the modern work operating system, Slack. The reason so many teams rely on the Slack platform for this purpose is because it is a tool that enables customer issues to be resolved faster…
How to improve customer support time-to-resolution with an FAQ strategy
Time-to-resolution is one of the most critical metrics that your customer support team can track and manage. This metric measures the average time from opening a ticket to the time it is marked as “resolved”. It is particularly critical to scoring your customer support team performance because it is linked…
Zendesk, Confluence, Google Drive… where is the answer to customer support issues again?
A well equipped and knowledgeable customer support team creates successful, happy customers. To achieve this coveted level of satisfaction, your support team must have access to product and support documentation at their fingertips so that they have the tools to deliver on this goal. As companies scale, this becomes increasingly…
Autumn 2020 Changelog
Well, friends, we’ve been teasing an exciting new FAQ experience for a couple of months now and we’re happy to announce that the next evolution of Obie FAQs is here ! FAQ update includes: The ability to better organize your FAQs for scale Assign FAQs to #channels and groups The…
Top 3 signs you helpdesk is ready to enable self-serve support
Your company has a very busy support helpdesk. Tickets volumes are high. Support agents are backlogged. Your team budget feels stretched. Are these signs telling you something? Maybe it’s time to open a self-service channel for your employees. It’s hard to know when the right time is to launch such…
How to build a wiki or knowledge base in Slack
With Slack becoming the operating system of the workplace, it is increasingly important to integrate more and more workplace tools with the platform. Leading the charge, is fully integrating internal knowledge and documentation with Slack. Let’s first take a moment to consider what one would ideally like out of a…
Why self-serve support and Slack go hand-in-hand
Companies that depend on a centralized body of knowledge to propel productivity know that you can build a robust, comprehensive, validated and accurate body of knowledge to power self-serve support, but if you don’t make it easy to access where people work, it will collect dust. For this reason, knowledge…