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Reach your help desk from your blog with Zendesk for Wordpress

Given the fact that an estimated 10 percent of the internet runs on WordPress, the chances…

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Too many passwords? Access Zendesk using your Google and Facebook logins

Today, companies can now access Zendesk with their familiar Google or Facebook logins. These new integrations…

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Increase efficiency, drive down cost, and improve customer satisfaction all at the same time

How can your organization increase efficiency, drive down cost, and improve customer satisfaction all at the…

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What Does Support in "Real Time" Actually Mean

Is ‘customer time’ the same as ‘company time’? If not, then the starting point of service…

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10,000 Customers And (Still) Counting

Today, Zendesk is happy to announce that it now has 10,000 customers. Big milestone for us…

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How fruit got on the loom

They say Corporate America has no sense of humor. Are “they” right? Find out by following…

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How to Say You're Sorry

If you screw up you should apologize. Period. Even if the wronged party cops a major…

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Don't Keep Your Customers Waiting

Nothing says DISRESPECT quite like forcing someone else to wait. And yet, that is exactly what…

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Ep. 9: Seeing the Light

Fight Scene! Evil Three vs. The Bartender

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Your call is being recorded to ensure quality customer service

“Your call may be recorded to ensure quality customer service.” Pretty much every call to a…

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Default triggers explained

Triggers are business rules that are automatically executed in response to certain events that have occurred…

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8 Ways to Ramp Up Help Desk Response Times

These days customer feedback and distress signals come in a head-spinning variety of formats and flavors.…

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Social studies: A business-to-consumer social media report card

When the Internet entered the mainstream, life became a lot more challenging for traditional retailers. The…

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Do you benchmark your customer service? You should. Here’s why.

[Update: Since we wrote this blog post, we’ve launched the Zendesk Benchmark. Check it out to…

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How LEGO Designs a Customer's Experience

Below is an amazing graphic produced by LEGO that it calls the experience wheel, designed, in…

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Automatically turn voicemails into support tickets

This is a guest blog by James W. Breeden, CEO of LiveAir Networks. He describes how…

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The Upside of Downtime? Zendesk’s Lessons Learned on Datacenter Migrations

A couple of weeks ago, Foursquare had a major outage. We felt their pain; site outages…

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