7 productivity hacks to achieve zero inbox or support requests every day
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Zero Inbox or Zero Support Requests is a rigorous productivity philosophy that aims at helping you to cut down the actual time you spend on managing support emails. HappyFox Features That Helps You To Achieve Inbox Zero Logical Categorisation And Prioritisation Smart Notifications Self Service Knowledgebase Smart Rules that enables automation HappyFox Mobile ApplicationsTRANSCRIPT
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Inbox Zero 7 hacks to achieve Zero support requests
What is Inbox Zero
Merlin Mann Definition
A rigorous approach towards keeping the inbox empty, or nearly empty at all times.
Impact
Frees up the time of support staff to focus on other issues and improve productivity
Why have Inbox Zero
What Inbox Zero signifies
Your product/service is awesome and your customers have no complaints
You have a robust self-help portal that empowers customers to help themselves
Chapter 1How to achieve Inbox Zero
The need for a feature rich help desk
To achieve Inbox Zero, one needs the services of a robust feature rich help desk, so that you can execute the five commandments of Inbox Zero, according to Merlin Mann
Five Commandments of Inbox Zero
DELETE
DELEGATE
RESPOND
DEFER
DO
The big 5 tasks behind Inbox Zero
Commandment 1
DELETEWeed out the unnecessary
If the ticket is spam or unnecessary information, immediately get rid of it.
Commandment 2
DELEGATECategorize and sort
If the ticket has to be addressed by staff from another team like sales or development, transfer it across to the appropriate team and notify them of the same
Commandment 3
RESPONDAttack the simple ones
If the ticket is just a clarification/request, respond and close it right away
Commandment 4
DEFERSet a timeline
If it is not of priority, defer it to a specified date and move it to a different folder
Commandment 5
DOGet things done
If it requires a task to be completed, ensure it gets completed immediately
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
1. Categorization and Prioritization
• Categorize, prioritize and move ticketsto folders depend-ing on priority and address them periodically.
• Respond to tickets that require one line answers, move urgent tickets to a separate categories and speed up sup-port.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
2. Smart Notifications
• Immediately respond to the ticket or categorize it de-pending on the ticket and priority.
• Always be on top of all ticket activity.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
3. Self-service, Knowledge base and Forums
• Stabilize the support process with a clear, concise and easily accessible set of knowledge base articles that con-tain quick and effective solutions to commonly asked ques-tions.
• With forums, cultivate cross-customer interaction, allow customers to help one another and thereby reduce chances of incoming tickets.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
4. Well-trained, motivated and equipped support agents
• Impart the right kind of training imparted to your support agents and enable them to handle issues without accumu-lating your inbox with tickets.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
5. HappyFox Mobile for support on the move
• With the help of HappyFox Mobile, support staff can check tickets and reply to them from wherever they are using nothing but their phones.
• Update staff on changes in tickets, replies etc, so that they can do the necessary actions right from their mobile phone.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
6. Smart Rules and Automation
• Create Smart Rules to configure a set of predefined in-structions on how tickets should be categorized, prioritized and escalated.
• Escalate tickets nearing SLAs so that there are no pend-ing or unanswered tickets ever in your email inbox.
Chapter 2How HappyFox can help you achieve Inbox Zero
7. Reporting, Analytics and feedback
• Identify and pick key performance metrics that need to attention for improving your support process.
• Encourage support agents to take feedback from cus-tomers both via phone and email.
• Review them regularly to understand what your custom-ers feel are lacking in your support.