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The secret sauce to any great customer service and support organization is the team that makes it all possible. Check out our lessons, tips, and philosophies to help you engage and equip your agents so they can have better customer conversations.


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Time to tackle your ticket backlog

A huge ticket backlog can be an intimidating prospect for any customer service team. Our Zendesk support team shares a few tips on how to tackle it.

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What it’s like on the front lines of support

Support looks different from company to company. We asked a few agents on the front lines of our Tier 1 support for insights into guiding and empowering customers.

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Agent feedback: putting the pieces together

When it comes to agent satisfaction, there are compelling reasons to move beyond a surface understanding of its importance

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Keep support knowledge fresh and useful

Knowledge is the product that your support team owns and builds every day

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

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Making the most of an NPS survey

What can an NPS survey tells you about your customer experience?

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5 benefits of turning know-how into knowledge

To build and maintain a great knowledge base, the best people to “hire” are the ones that use the knowledge day in and day out

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The ROI of empowered agents

Agents who feel empowered show improved performance and increased loyalty—a serious boon in today’s competitive business landscape

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Sales and support: aligning to improve customer retention

Companies that are in it for the long haul must place as much emphasis on retention as they do acquisition

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Introducing Textback, born in our hackathon

Phone-tree, or IVR, administrators can now add a text-back option for callers needing support. And it all came about at the Zendevian Cup, our annual hackathon.

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Save the day with a churn survey

A churn survey is a great way to learn why a customer left you, and what you can do prevent further churn

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Pain points of live chat and how to solve them

With live chat, there's a lot of pressure to keep up with the masses in real-time. But it can also increase sales, reduce support costs, and increase CSAT.

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6 Benchmarking best practices

Benchmarking done right is much more than a casual, anecdotal look at the competition. Here are some benchmarking best practices

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Customize your CSAT survey

The simplicity of the CSAT survey lends itself to analyzing trends in satisfaction. Companies that focus on improving their scores have a competitive boost

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Communication is key to great tech support

Alex has a background in technical support, but it was his experience as a history and…

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Sharing customer feedback

Simply collecting responses isn’t enough: sharing customer feedback properly is required for your company to make truly informed decisions.

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Transforming your customer service in 4 steps

What are the keys to transforming your customer service operation? It could be the literal million-dollar question.

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The art of business analysis in customer support

Jen Neuls’ early career was in the arts. Now as Senior Business Analyst for Zendesk’s Advocacy…

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