{"id":1252,"date":"2013-06-03t23:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-03t23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2013-06-03t23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03t23:23:29","slug":"happiness-report-may-2013-how-to-keep-em-satisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/blog\/happiness-report-may-2013-how-to-keep-em-satisfied\/","title":{"rendered":"happiness report, may 2013: how to keep ’em satisfied"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201chappiness is not something ready made. it comes from your own actions.\u201d – dalai lama xiv<\/em><\/p>\n very true, dalai lama, very true. this past month, our “own actions” have kept our customer satisfaction rating at 98%. we’ve also seen a 49% increase in the volume of support requests from april to may (!). so, what actions did we take to achieve this?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. add more cooks to the kitchen (but only if they’re already great at cooking)!<\/em> this month, we added lucas to the team, and he arrived just in time. lucas is a natural, and he’s already off to a great start:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. response time matters to customers<\/em> (and to everyone, i suppose, because who likes to wait for things these days?). our average response time this month was 9 hours. although it’s not our best response time\u00a0ever,\u00a0<\/em>we’d call it a success considering the number of questions we received from users this month:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n