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Pricing Blog Log in Get started now Join us as we share what we’re learning as we build a company that approaches work from a fresh perspective. We write about workplace culture, our finances, and our business decisions and strategies. Open Apr 24, 2024 TikTok ’Ban’ Bill Signed into Law: What It Means for Buffer and How Creators & Marketers Can Prepare TikTok’s parent company must divest the app or face a ban in the U.S. Here’s everything we know, plus how to plan ahead. Hailley Griffis Open Mar 29, 2024 Lessons from Unreasonable Hospitality: A Favorite Read From Our Customer Advocacy Team How the Buffer Customer Advocacy Team set up their book club, plus their key takeaways from their first read: Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara. Karinna Briseno Open Mar 14, 2024 How Buffer’s Content Team Uses AI In this article, the Buffer Content team shares exactly how and where we use AI in our work. Tamilore Oladipo Open Mar 1, 2024 How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún The Buffer team is heading out on our first retreat since 2019! I asked the retreat veterans for advice on making the most of the trip as a newbie. Kirsti Lang Open Feb 9, 2024 Hospitality in Software: Buffer’s Approach to Customer Support How can we keep creating a unique customer support experience even as we get an increasing number of messages from customers? This is a question that is always on my mind. Delivering exceptional customer support has always been at the core of Buffer’s mission. Over the years, we’ve taken pride in our unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction and our dedicated support team’s ability to go the extra mile. What we have found is that as your volume and team size scale, it can be trickier to Åsa Nyström Open Feb 1, 2024 Why I’ve Stayed at Buffer for 8 Years, an Open Reflection When I tell people how long I’ve been at Buffer — eight years today — people generally have a lot of questions. But one of the most common is, Why have you stayed so long?” Eight years is an unusually long time to be at one company in tech. It’s also an unusually long time among most of my friend group except those who work in more traditional jobs, say in teaching or in government. So why have I stayed? My short answer is usually the same — it’s the people and the product. I truly enjoy wor Hailley Griffis Open Jan 25, 2024 Introducing our Open Salary System: Reflecting on a Decade of Transparent Salaries at Buffer Buffer has been in business for 13 years now, and we’ve had transparent salaries for 10 of those. This means that for over a decade, all Buffer salaries have been publicly viewable, and we’ve shared our approach to salaries and the formula we based them upon openly. We’ve maintained transparent salaries through significant market (and world) changes and through ups and downs in our performance as a business. I’m proud of the fact that we never took away that transparency, internally or external Joel Gascoigne Open Jan 16, 2024 Our First Fixathon: How We Squashed 44 Bugs in One Week Buffer, as a company, closes the last week of the year every year, and historically, as an engineering team, we’d do a code freeze for the week before we’re closed so nothing broke heading into the holidays. (Pretty smart of us.) This year, we did something different, and it still worked out. We used the last week of the year as a fixathon” for our whole engineering team. Fixathon = a week where our 29-person engineering team spent a whole week focused on fixing bugs. By the end of the we Mw Güldenpfennig Open Dec 1, 2023 I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role As a new Bufferoo, I asked my teammates how to thrive at the company. Their guidance will stay with me for the rest of my career — and it might help you, too. Kirsti Lang Open Nov 9, 2023 Buffer is Remote but not Async-First, Here’s Why With so many years of being remote, we’ve experimented with communication a lot. One conversation that often comes up for remote companies is asynchronous (async) communication. Async just means that a discussion happens when it is convenient for participants. For example, if I record a Loom video for a teammate in another time zone, they can watch it when they’re online — this is async communication at its best. Some remote companies are async first. A few are even fully async with no live ca Hailley Griffis Z - Popular Sep 29, 2023 How to Send Better Email: 7 Ways To Level Up Your Email Skills Today Like many others, I read and reply to hundreds of emails every week and I have for years. And as with anything — some emails are so much better than others. Some emails truly stand out because the person took time to research, or they shared their request quickly. There are a lot of things that can take an email from good to great, and in this post, we’re going to get into them. What’s in this post: * The best tools for email * What to say instead of Let me know if you have any questions” a Hailley Griffis Workplace of the future Sep 28, 2023 22 Side Projects From the Buffer Team At Buffer, we’ve long had teammates who have side projects in addition to working at Buffer. It’s pretty common for our team to run their own blog, we have several published authors on the team, and many of our engineers run apps that have nothing to do with their regular work. Though some companies prefer that anyone on their team not have side projects and actively discourage it, that has never been our way at Buffer. In fact, working at Buffer means you get a free Buffer account, making it e Hailley Griffis Open Sep 27, 2023 My First 30 Days at Buffer: What It’s Like To Join the Company in 2023 How I was onboarded to the fully distributed, remote team, along with a couple of things that have really surprised me about life at Buffer. Kirsti Lang Open Sep 8, 2023 How Volunteering Supports My Role at Buffer I’ve been a Customer Advocate at Buffer for nearly five years. Throughout that time, I’ve worked hard to find the best way to guide customers to unlock the full potential of our platform to help them achieve their goals. I found a specific passion for our customers in the onboarding part of their journey by helping them look for the right plan to meet their needs, ensuring they have the necessary documentation to allow their company to move forward with our platform, and empowering them through Essence Muhammad Open Aug 16, 2023 Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. We shared a post about where your money went when buying a $10 Buffer plan back in 2014 — but it was well time for an update. A lot has changed over the last nine years, and we want to share some of the learnings and insights gained from looking back at our numbers. We’re also happy to share a more su Jenny Terry Open Aug 10, 2023 How We Run Performance Reviews At Buffer And Why I Have Mixed...