CASE STUDY

Agility Digital: Customer education, connected to HubSpot

Dramatically fewer

Support tickets

More value

From every customer

More projects

More growth

What customer education challenge was Agility Digital trying to solve?

Agility Digital builds customised HubSpot and Salesforce solutions for its clients.

But getting customers confident using those solutions meant training calls, ongoing support and lots of documentation, sometimes including manuals running to 50 pages.

The challenge was getting customers up to speed without so much of the work falling back on the Agility team.

How did Agility move customer training online?

Agility used HowToo to create structured, self-directed learning around each client's implementation.

Generic product training wasn't enough. Customers needed to understand their own processes, use cases and customised setup.

HowToo gave them a way to learn that themselves, while freeing Agility from repeatedly delivering the same training.

What were the results?

General support tickets dramatically dropped.

Agility found that people raising support tickets were often the same people who hadn't completed their training.

Customers who did complete the learning were more engaged, suggesting new ideas and exploring what else they could do with HubSpot and Salesforce.

For Agility, that led to more projects and more work.

How does HowToo work with HubSpot?

HowToo brings customer learning activity into HubSpot, including progress through courses and lessons.

That data can then be used in workflows, reporting and customer communications.

It gives Agility another view of the customer journey: who's progressing, who needs help and what should happen next.

Why not just use HubSpot Academy, a knowledge base or AI agent?

Those tools are useful for finding information and answering questions.

But Agility's customers need to understand the solution built specifically for their business, not just HubSpot or Salesforce generally.

Structured learning provides that journey, while knowledge bases, AI agents and support can help at the point of need.

How should you start building a customer academy?

Agility's advice is simple: start small.

Focus first on the things customers most need to understand and where your team is spending the most time helping.

Then look at the data and customer feedback and build from there.

What's next for customer education at Agility?

Agility sees an opportunity to connect customer learning even more closely with support and CRM data.

If customer behaviour shows someone is struggling, the right learning could be delivered before they need to ask for help.

The result is a more responsive customer journey, based on what each customer actually needs.

What can other SaaS and technology companies learn from Agility?

Start with a few simple questions:

  • Where are customers getting stuck?
  • What are we explaining over and over?
  • What do customers need to understand to get value?
  • What could they learn themselves?
  • How could learning connect with the data already in our CRM?

Less time answering the same questions. More time helping customers get value.

“The number of support tickets around just general use of the platforms has dramatically dropped.”

Jeremy Robertshaw
Founder & Marketing Technology Lead, Agility Digital

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