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Retention
“If someone reaches out and has a great experience we're able to answer their question in 2 minutes they find a competitor and out to them and they don't hear back for 48 hours that says something about who they are as a company.”
Fast Response Time Is a Moat — Competitors Lose on 48-Hour Reply Windows
In a world where app clones can be shipped in weeks, customer support speed is a genuine competitive moat. When a frustrated user contacts two competing apps and gets a 2-minute reply from one and silence from the other, the decision is made. Captions treats 58-second median first response time as a strategic asset — not a cost center — because most competitors do not even have dedicated support.
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Eli Winderbaum
CaptionsHead of Customer Experience at Captions — AI video editing app with tens of millions of downloads and customers in every country worldwide
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How to Reduce Churn & Boost Growth with Fast, Empathetic Customer Support — Eli Winderbaum, Captions· 5:05