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On-Premise vs Cloud Software: A Comprehensive Comparison

Today, businesses have a lot of choices when it comes to data storage. One of these choices is going on-premise vs cloud software to host your data as against just keeping everything within your own network.

In this blog post, I will try to give you a comprehensive overview of on-premise vs cloud software hosting, with a special focus on the topic of security.

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9 creative ways to ask your website visitors for feedback

You’ve finished a new website, and you’re hyped, but you wonder if your users will love it as you do. You conduct 1-2 interview research, but time is limited, you just have to release it into the wild.

And again you wonder if there are other more efficient or creative ways to ask for feedback.

So that’s how you landed here. Many companies struggle with how to ask for website feedback just like you, and the solution varies. You can send more surveys, use new tools, or try to design feedback questions differently. All these are covered in this article.

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Why great customer support is more than a nice-to-have strategy!

In the old days, simple customer support was something most companies sucked at. But times changed and so has customer support. A lot of businesses now take customer support as a service and an important part of their business operations.

In this blog post, I’ll show you numerous steps for providing the best customer support available. Bring your customer support to the next level, and your business too.

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Guide to win with the customer experience management

Customer service is important. Super important. If you underestimate the importance of excellent customer service, chances are somewhat slim to win your customers as your most important influencers.

In this blog post, you’ll find everything you need to know about customer experience and why it truly matters for your business.

So better let’s get started.

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Your next product feature, backed by product feedback.

Did you ever release a “game-changing” feature in your eyes, but no one used it? In addition, was it even inconvenient for your customers? We’ve heard the horror stories, and created a few of our own along the way. The one thing missing for your product feature: product feedback! There is no doubt: releasing the right product features is a cornerstone for every SaaS company’s business success. It brings about product-led growth and helps your SaaS scale.

In this post I’m going to show you how we handle product feedback questions and implement new product features. Everything backed by product feedback.

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Is Customer Support Email the best channel to customer success?

A lot has been written on how companies can grow their business through customer success. The terms “customer success” or “customer experience” seem to be the new buzzwords in the growth-driven tech world. These discussions are great, and we at Usersnap believe that customer support email and customer success are important factors when it comes to business success.

However, I do believe that some basic and core questions remain unanswered. And one of these questions is this:

Is email still the best customer support channel?

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Guide for Usersnap as your main customer support software

A couple of days ago, there was a customer who came in to ask us if we knew about some great customer support tools. Obviously, we told them about Usersnap and what it does for bug tracking. They didn’t realize that it does just that this customer wanted it for customer support.

Here’s the good news.

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7 Tips On How to Become a Full Stack Developer!

When you’re starting out, going to university or starting to work in your first full-time job, you feel like you can handle anything. You want to be a good developer, so you want to go full stack.

What’s that exactly? Well, bring together all the books relevant to information technology and bundle them together. That tower of information is what you’d call a full stack 😉

So, once you realize that, ambitious as you are, you know deep down that it’s probably a pipe dream. Or is it?

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How to design trust, and bake it into your software

If you’re looking to develop a new application or a website, you may not have given much thought to making it look and feel trustworthy to your potential users. Their design trust is crucial to improving adoption, usage, and retention rates.

But trust me (pun intended) it’s important.

A well-trusted, well-reviewed website or app will draw new, repeat users and boost your online presence, business, and reputation.

So how can developers and designers create and design trust?

This article focuses on elements and techniques which will enable you and your website or app to gain the trust of your users.

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What is Quality Assurance (QA)? Definition, Meaning

Let’s talk about Quality Assurance: I’m super happy to work with a company that puts a lot of energy into the quality assurance part of every single software development project.

Quality assurance is a discipline that’s overlooked and under-appreciated. We produce software, share it with the team, test it, collect feedback, ask beta testers and then do it over again. Share, test, collect, ask, repeat. Yup, that’s pretty much it.

Yet people treat quality assurance as something superficial – a few tests here, a few user feedback there, and with one big eye staring at the release button.

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