A help desk professional is someone that balances customer service skills with technical competency to assistant internal employees or external clients with computer or technological issues. Internal ...

Small businesses such as hotels, auto dealer service centers and professional offices typically make use of a front desk area to greet and serve customers. A clean, efficient front desk operation ...

Your relationship with customers doesn’t end after they’ve purchased your product or service. In fact, that’s just the beginning of a long-term relationship. What if a customer has a question or ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

The rise of social media should horrify any company with crappy customer service. Right now, with minimal effort, any disgruntled customer can use a service like Twitter to voice their complaints to ...

Salesforce spent approximately $50 million in cash, net of cash acquired, to buy Assistly, Salesforce said Wednesday. Assistly offers cloud-based "instant customer service help desk applications" that ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Last September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly for $50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings to small businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a ...

Crafting a standout help desk resume is crucial for landing a rewarding position in the IT support field. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting your career, having ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which ...

Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately US$50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Assistly’s ...

Salesforce.com is well known for its interest in pursuing and promoting social and mobile platforms, and now it is continuing along those lines with the debut of Desk.com. Touted as "revolutionizing ...