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What is employee experience: the essential guide for 2024

Everything you need to know to create a happy, motivated, and productive workplace.

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Employee experience journey mapping: Full guide (+ template)

Enhance employee satisfaction and productivity with employee experience journey mapping. Try our template today.

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Customer feedback management: A beginner’s guide

Discover the power of customer feedback management in understanding and meeting customer needs, reducing churn, and fostering loyalty. Dive deeper with our guide and kickstart your feedback journey by downloading our customer satisfaction survey templates below.

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What is omnichannel? A CX guide for 2024

Omnichannel is an approach that makes it easier to communicate with customers across different channels. Learn how you can meet customers where they are and provide smooth, consistent experiences.

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Customer communication: 8 tips to build an effective strategy

A strong customer communication strategy helps your team deliver consistent brand messaging and build meaningful connections with buyers.

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How to use Zendesk for HR

In this guide, we’ll show you how your HR team can use Zendesk’s low/no code tools to modernize your help desk and start building for the future of work, right here in the present.

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Customer enablement: What it is + why you need it

Customer enablement is critical to business success. When you educate and empower your customers, you enhance their experience and improve brand loyalty.

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Value chain: Definition, examples, and guide

The value chain gives you the tools to maximize your company’s value and profit margin by evaluating all business activities.

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What is the buyer’s journey? Definition, stages, and examples

Mapping the buyer’s journey allows you to gain a deeper understanding of your customer’s path to purchase so you can improve your sales, support, and marketing efforts.

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Lead funnel: How to build it, definition, and stages

Use your lead funnel to streamline the customer journey for prospects, leading to higher conversion rates and easier sales.

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What is a knowledge base? A comprehensive guide

Help customers find answers on their own by offering a knowledge base—a virtual library of information about your product or service.

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Sales and operations planning (S&OP): Definition, process, and best practices

See how sales and operations planning uses data to zero in on supply and demand issues so you can balance your business processes and set your teams up for success.

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What is a ticketing system? (+3 ways companies use them)

Use ticketing systems to efficiently manage high ticket volume, deliver timely customer support, and boost agent productivity.

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How to build a sales playbook framework (+ a free template)

Creating a sales playbook will streamline your sales process and solidify your branding in each customer interaction.

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51 customer service statistics you need to know

Here are the trends, insights, and customer service statistics to know to exceed your customers’ expectations in 2023 and beyond.

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Customer touchpoints: How to identify them + examples

Discover everything you need to know about customer touchpoints and use templates to map touchpoints across the customer journey.

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13 ways AI will improve the customer experience in 2024

Use artificial intelligence to enhance the customer experience at every stage of the buyer’s journey.

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