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Building a best-in-class customer self-service experience

It’s common knowledge that the benefits of self-service for your customers, your team, and your company…

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Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center

In the global market for customer service software, Zendesk is named a leader in the 2019…

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Customer Experience Guide

We all know that for any company to succeed, it must first and foremost focus on…

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Team up on self-service with Team Publishing

The key to a great self-service experience for your customers is having great content. In order…

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How Google and Apple are mapping out business messaging

Google's Business Messaging and Apple Messages for Business are the latest spots on the messaging landscape, but how will they map out their strategies?

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Improvements to Zendesk’s terms and policies

It’s the blog post that you’ve anxiously been awaiting—Zendesk’s updates to its Terms and Policies!

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Onboarding a business process outsourcer? Follow the four "Ts"

If you don’t get your BPO team onboarded quickly, and fully trained on your processes, product, and voice, you risk delivering sub-par service to your customers

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4 surprising findings on big companies and customer support

Some big companies were born digital; others are just starting to modernize their customer support. New Benchmark research points to best practices for both.

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Debunking the myths of omnichannel customer experience

If you have found yourself thinking the following – this webinar is for you. Omnichannel is…

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How AI assistants close the gaps in customer service

AI assistants are capable of quite a bit more than their living room responsibilities. In the…

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Every ticket is a puzzle: One advocate’s drive to solve them

Carl McDowell is a Tier 2 Technical Support Engineer at Zendesk in Melbourne. In this interview, he talks about life as a Talk Product Champion.

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How Zendesk customers gain value with ticketing and real-time support

Instant communication is the expectation when it comes to support, and when more than 53% of…

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Using a smart knowledge base to unlock agent potential

Arm your agents with a smart knowledge base to help them become more efficient, more effective, and enjoy higher levels of satisfaction

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Support your support with self-service

More than 20% of agent time is spent looking for info, but having a good knowledge…

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Proven tips for retailers to make the most of this holiday shopping season

We spoke with a few ecommerce agencies to get their advice and quick tips on how merchants can be successful during this shopping frenzy

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Providing automated self-service where customers (and agents) want it most

As customers trend towards becoming more self-sufficient, they’re becoming more accustomed to interacting with AI-powered tools for the support they need.

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How to develop your customer service voice and tone: A guide

Customer service tone of voice comes down to attitude—that is, the quality or feeling in your voice expressed by the words you are using.

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