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18 customer service tips to win over your customers

Support leaders seeking to meet rising customer expectations can take advantage of a customer service advice from the experts.

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How to spot a phishing attack

Phishing emails often appear normal, but it’s easy to identify warning signs if you know where to look

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The 5 most important customer service techniques

Customers are king and in order to treat them like royalty, your customer service team needs to deliver the best experience every time

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The 3-step process for better agent training

Customer support leaders need to create an agent training process that's simple, repeatable, and scalable. Here's how

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How your support team can nurture your community

As a Community Engagement Specialist, Brett Bowser applies years of hands-on customer-service skills to a different, and increasingly essential support experience

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Don't be afraid of change

Without a change management process to ensure success, all kinds of disruptions can occur, slowing down productivity and eating away at resources

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More than just a rep—the modern customer service job

In the era of the customer, the customer service job has evolved beyond its tired clichés and become a full-fledged (and promising) career

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Why support advocates should never fear the banana

Robin Frerichs is in the unique position of supporting Zendesk support agents, building a bridge between customer experience and the advocate experience

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Customer experience is a team sport

As products become increasingly complex, effective cross-departmental communication is a must—and the key is to treat customer service like a team sport

Meet us at the top

Read the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report.

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7 ways to improve your agent capacity

If your agents are constantly switching between channels and unable to communicate and collaborate in real…

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How to make your workflow flow

As your support teams grow, here are some tips on how to optimize operations at scale

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How to collaborate across teams to scale customer support

For enterprise companies with hundreds of employees and dozens of departments, you often need to go outside of your customer service team to answer a question

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Join the Zendesk Experience Research Panel and help shape the future of our products.

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11 customer service response templates to improve workflow

Respond to customers fast by using customer service response templates. Don’t worry about sounding robotic—you can always add your own unique touch to keep your communication human and empathetic.

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Customer service BPO: What is it + do you need it?

Customer service BPOs can help you reach your support goals. Learn what they are and how to determine if they are right for your organization.

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Solving your customer problems without causing more problems

What your agents experience and how they keep track of customer needs is the crucial difference between a business that works and one that works well

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4 tips for springboarding from Tier 1 support

See how Leah Guest used her training ground in Tier 1 support as a jumping-off point for her current position as a Voice of the Customer Platform Coordinator at Zendesk

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Innovate, explore and onboard with a sandbox

Developers have been playing in sandboxes since the '70s. Then and now, these controlled computing environments allow them to work free of real-world ramifications.

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