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#103 – First Priority as a New Manager

January 19, 2016 By Chase Clemons

You’re a brand new manager, which means your priorities are going to shift. As Carolyn put it on episode 99, “Your customers are now the ones taking care of the customers”. But is that the right approach to take?

↠ Listen to EP103 – First Priority as a New Manager. 

#102 – The New Year

December 15, 2015 By Chase Clemons

This is our final show of the year! We’ll be on a holiday hiatus until January to give us some time to relax and refresh.

With 2015 ending and 2016 right around the corner, teams are already looking towards next year. We’ll take a look at what goals and ideas you should be thinking about with the start of a new year.

↠ Listen to EP102 – The New Year. 

#101 – Welcome to the Holidays!

December 8, 2015 By Chase Clemons

This one is all about holiday support. Scheduling a growing team can be tough in even the normal parts of a year. With the holidays rapidly approaching, we want you to start thinking about how to handle the scheduling around it.

↠ Listen to EP101 – Welcome to the Holidays! 

#100 – Our 100th Episode!

December 1, 2015 By Chase Clemons

It’s here! Our long awaited 100th episode. We’ll take a look back and talk about what we’ve learned over the past 100 episodes.

↠ Listen to EP100 – Our 100th Episode! 

#99 – A Third Rapid Fire Episode!

November 17, 2015 By Chase Clemons

It’s back! It’s a special rapid fire episode. We’re taking listener questions and answering them as quick and concise as we can. These are questions that don’t really need a whole show for them. Sit back and listen as we tackle as many of them as we can.

↠ Listen to EP99 – A Third Rapid Fire Episode! 

#98 – Effective Team Communications Part 2

November 3, 2015 By Chase Clemons

The exciting finale to part one of effectively communicating with your team.

Automattic has a great idea in their creed – “I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company.” We’d go as far as to say communication is the oxygen of any team – both local and remote. But how does an effective team communicate with each other?

↠ Listen to EP98 – Effective Team Communications Part 2. 

#97 – Effective Team Communications Part 1

October 27, 2015 By Chase Clemons

Automattic has a great idea in their creed – “I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company.” We’d go as far as to say communication is the oxygen of any team – both local and remote. But how does an effective team communicate with each other?

Listen / Watch the Episode

http://media.blubrry.com/supportopshangout/s3.amazonaws.com/supportops/hangout/hangout97.mp3

Ways to listen or watch: iTunes | MP3 | YouTube | RSS 

This week’s shownotes

  • Automattic Creed
  • P2
  • Remove the Stress, Pick a Deadline
  • Trello, Help Scout, Buffer and many more great companies are hiring.
  • Intro Music – “Happy Rock” from Bensound

This week’s shoutouts

  • Carolyn – Billy Joel
  • Chase L. – Zoom
  • Jeff – Wistia Patch
  • Chase C. – Wistia – Replace Your Video

Ask us a question

If you’ve got a question for us or an idea for a future episode, send us a message here or tweet it to us – @SupportOps. And if you enjoyed the show, show us some love by giving us a review in iTunes.

#96.5 – Saying “No” to Customers (Redux)

October 19, 2015 By Chase Clemons

We’re bringing back a great episode from the depths of our archives. On this episode, we’re talking about saying “no” to a customer. Ben Vance from Emma wrote in with a great question:

Something I’ve been thinking about recently that I’d love to hear your thoughts on: is it ever OK to say “no” to a customer? I know we all have tricks and tips on ways to say it without saying it, but do you think that there are ever support situations where the word “no” is really the word for the job?”

Listen / Watch the Episode

http://media.blubrry.com/supportopshangout/s3.amazonaws.com/supportops/hangout/hangout96.5.mp3

Ways to listen or watch: iTunes | MP3 | YouTube | RSS 

This week’s shownotes

  • Jeff Reads Things and Stuff
  • Trello, Help Scout, Buffer and many more great companies are hiring.
  • Intro Music – “Happy Rock” from Bensound

This week’s shoutouts

  • Carolyn – Product Hunt
  • Jeff – Delight 2014
  • Chase L. – Overcast
  • Chase C. – Trove

If you’ve got a question for us or an idea for a future episode, send us a message here. And if you enjoyed the show, show us some love by giving us a review in iTunes.

#96 – Make Meetings Count

October 13, 2015 By Chase Clemons

From local teams to remote ones, it can be a challenge to get the most from a team meeting. When you pull the whole team in, it’s a lot of dollars salary wise and even more dollars with customers waiting on those team members. For this episode, we’re looking at how to successfully run a team meeting without wasting everyone’s time.

Listen / Watch the Episode

http://media.blubrry.com/supportopshangout/s3.amazonaws.com/supportops/hangout/hangout96.mp3

Ways to listen or watch: iTunes | MP3 | YouTube | RSS 

This week’s shownotes

  • Justin Seymour – Help Scout
  • Zoom
  • Highfive
  • Sqwiggle (Now Speak)
  • Trello, Help Scout, Buffer and many more great companies are hiring.
  • Intro Music – “Happy Rock” from Bensound

This week’s shoutouts

  • Carolyn – Moments
  • Justin – Focus@Will
  • Chase C. – Modley Crew

Ask us a question

If you’ve got a question for us or an idea for a future episode, send us a message here or tweet it to us – @SupportOps. And if you enjoyed the show, show us some love by giving us a review in iTunes.

#95 – Customer Satisfaction

October 6, 2015 By Chase Clemons

We all know that customer satisfaction is important. A happy customer is a customer that sticks with you. And it’s a lot cheaper to keep a customer rather compared to bringing in a brand new customer. But how do we convince others in management of the same thing?

Listen / Watch the Episode

http://media.blubrry.com/supportopshangout/s3.amazonaws.com/supportops/hangout/hangout95.mp3

Ways to listen or watch: iTunes | MP3 | YouTube | RSS 

This week’s shownotes

  • SurveyMonkey, Airbnb, and many more great companies are hiring.
  • Intro Music – “Happy Rock” from Bensound

This week’s shoutouts

  • Jeff – Eduardo Garcia
  • Chase L. – Apple Notes
  • Chase C. – Project Apollo Archive

Ask us a question

If you’ve got a question for us or an idea for a future episode, send us a message here or tweet it to us – @SupportOps. And if you enjoyed the show, show us some love by giving us a review in iTunes.

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