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February 15, 2021 16 mins

Customer service goes beyond just answering emails and phone calls. When managed correctly, every interaction with customers can generate key insights that help grow your business.

In this episode, Steve Amaza, a Customer Success Manager for User Operations at Paystack, speaks about how Paystack uses customer service data to improve the product, the tooling that the team uses to keep up even as the company scales, and the value of empathy and a problem-solving mindset in building a world-class customer support team.

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT

0:00 — Introduction

2:08 — Using customer service data to improve the product

4:12 — Key metrics for support teams

5:03 — How to handle acutely unhappy customers

6:47 — Using documentation to scale support

9:06 — [Paystack Merchant Alert] Introducing Bento paystack.com/bento

10:17 — Why solving the problem matters more than simply giving a response

11:40 — Deep empathy as a customer service superpower

13:38 — Episode recap

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