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Raising the bar: 4 more leaders in customer service

We've recognized support leaders from four of our customer stories to highlight how they're raising the bar as customer service leaders.

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Scaling and sustaining your customer service organization

Our advocates have shared a few lessons and solutions that they’ve learned about structuring, scaling, and…

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Highlight your team’s performance with 7 customer support metrics

By measuring key customer support metrics alongside and against each other, support leaders get a full view into the customer experience

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Tip of the Week: Auto-assigning Tickets

Today’s tip of the week describes how to automatically route tickets to a particular agent, or…

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Why staffing can make or break your omnichannel strategy

A critical part of actualizing your omnichannel strategy is how you organize and manage your team to staff multiple channels

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4 industry leaders on how they use the Knowledge Capture app

We talked to industry leaders from Electronic Arts, Fossil, Clever, and FINALCAD to see how they’re each using Zendesk Guide and the Knowledge Capture app

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SEO and customer service: The benefits of aligning efforts

Did you get here after googling a search term? Your customers find you this way, too.

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What if language wasn’t a barrier for customer support?

With Unbabel for Zendesk, and with help from artificial intelligence, language will no longer be an insurmountable obstacle for customer support agents

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Raising the bar as a customer support leader

There are many metrics that come out of customer service, but success in helping your customers and providing leadership goes beyond an awareness of them

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What we're learning from Answer Bot®

At Zendesk, we have jumped into exploring this newer world of business-applicable machine learning with Answer Bot

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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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Ibotta scales training hurdles with Zendesk and Lessonly

Lessonly and Zendesk provide a powerful one-two punch for customer service and care agent training and…

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Meet Answer Bot®

Answer Bot works alongside your support team by automatically responding to your customers’ questions with content…

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Conversion Tracking in Chat

With Conversion Tracking, you can learn which chats are helping you accomplish business goals like sales…

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Skills-Based Routing in Zendesk Chat

All customers have different needs. Skill-Based Routing sends customers to the right agents, ensuring they quickly…

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Roles in Zendesk Chat

With roles and permissions, managers can create new roles for their agents and control what they…

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