Growth idea action plan
Manual help-center order before automatic sorts
Arrange categories, sections, and flagship articles by hand before defaulting to alphabetical or date-based ordering.
Why this can grow a startup
Auto-sorts feel tidy from the admin side and random from the customer side. Zendesk is explicit that teams can manually reorder categories, sections, and articles, and that manual ordering is what lets the editor decide what gets seen first. That matters when the archive is doing product onboarding, switcher education, and support at the same time. The useful route is rarely alphabetical. It usually starts with the jobs, frictions, and mistakes that cost the queue the most money.
Ian's take
From scaling consumer platforms across MENA and Southeast Asia, my default is to distrust growth work that only looks good in a slide. My bias is to treat this as a small market test first. Make the audience narrow, make the promise concrete, and let the first real response decide whether it deserves more work. I would run it small enough to learn quickly, then only scale the parts that real users repeat, save, reply to, or buy from. For this tactic, I would watch one clear growth signal before putting more time or budget behind it.
Action plan
- Define one narrow startup segment where manual help-center order before automatic sorts can create a measurable lift.
- Turn the tactic into one offer, page, campaign, or workflow for the Support and Documentation channel.
- Use the evidence from support.zendesk.com to set the first version of the message, format, and audience.
- Launch a small test for 7 to 14 days with one success metric: one measurable growth signal.
- Review the result, keep the winning message, remove weak variants, and turn the learning into a repeatable growth playbook.
Source-backed example
Zendesk's Arrange content view lets admins drag categories, sections, and articles into manual order, with changes saved directly to the live help center.
Source: Zendesk Help: Reordering knowledge base content within categories and sections (support.zendesk.com)
GrowthDex source hub: Zendesk Help: Reordering knowledge base content within categories and sections
Last checked: 2026-05-29
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If this page is close to your problem, these tactic pages usually belong in the same working set.
- Help center setup mode before public activation 3 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Single collection home for each public help article 2 shared channels · 2 shared stages
- Promoted help articles for homepage first-click routing 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
- Title-first help-center instant-search phrasing 2 shared channels · 1 shared stage
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Ian Goh has helped grow consumer platforms across Southeast Asia, India, and MENA. His work includes scaling Tiki to 100M+ users, doubling BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months, and increasing OYO's direct booking share across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
- Helped scale Tiki to 100M+ users.
- Doubled BIGO's MENA revenue in 7 months.
- Raised OYO's direct booking share by 50% across 6 Southeast Asian markets.
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