Episode description

Helen and Justin talk about the importance of customer support for indie SaaS companies.

• 1:08 The hardest part about podcasting is doing it every week
• 1:38 We just launched the new podcast website themes feature.
• 2:24 Getting feedback, or seeing people use your product, is fuel for indie makers
• 6:08 Helen's experience doing Customer Success for other companies: education, ConvertKit, MakerPad.
• 8:53 Justin's tweet: "Customer Support is the most under-appreciated role in SaaS."
• 10:00 The different forms of customer support: pre-sales, in-depth bug fixing, answering questions.
• 12:45 How does the Transistor team differ when we do support?
• 14:39 What Justin's learned from Helen in terms of giving better customer service
• 17:25 People expect us to be bots
• 17:45 The number of tickets we get each week: it's about ~100 conversations per week:
  • 60-70% of those are new conversations,
  • 30-40% is us responding to existing threads.
• 18:55 How we manage live chat so we can answer people fairly quickly
• 29:10 More tips for indie hackers who are doing customer support

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1. Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
2. Marcel Fahle, ​​wearebold.af
3. Alex Payne
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6. Mitch
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9. Ethan Gunderson
10. Chris Willow
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14. Colin Gray
15. Austin Loveless
16. Michael Sitver
17. Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
18. Dan Buda
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20. Brad from Canada
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22. Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
23. Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com

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• Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
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• Ward from MemberSpace.com
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• Michael Sitver
• Colin Gray
• Dave Giunta

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