Zendesk Global Benchmark Report: Customer Satisfaction on the Rise (UK)

August 8, 2013

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Customers Seek Self Service and Mobile is on the rise

The Zendesk Benchmark report also examined trends in customer self-service and introduced a new metric, the Self Service Score. Globally, for every four people helping themselves in forums and communities, one is submitting a request. The score represents the number of customers using self-service tools such as online forums and communities. The higher the score, the more effectively self-service tools serve the customers. Companies are realising that enabling self-service support is good for business and good for customer satisfaction.

Customer self-service is growing in popularity

Customers are also increasingly turning to mobile to help them and are doing so before contacting companies directly.  Over the past year, the percentage of customers accessing self-service content from their mobile devices has grown 50 percent. It reached 26 percent for the second quarter of 2013, compared to 17 percent in the same period a year earlier, according to the Zendesk Benchmark.

“The mobile consumer expects to find information with just a few swipes of a touch screen,” Price comments “Companies are moving quickly to offer customer self service that’s just as good on a four-inch screen as it is on a big screen.”

Mobile self-service usage is significantly higher in some industries, such as media (84%) and social media (57%). Industries with the some of the lowest customer preference for mobile globally include finance and insurance services (11%), education (10%) and software (10%).

Download the full Zendesk Benchmark report for Q2 2013 at: www.zendesk.com/resources/customer-service-benchmark

About the Zendesk Benchmark

The Zendesk Benchmark is based on actual customer service and support interactions between 16,000 participating companies and their customers across 125 countries. Introduced in March 2012, it allows companies to compare their customer service performance against industry peers. Its measures key metrics around customer support efficiency, customer self-service behavior, and levels of customer engagement.  Customer satisfaction is based on the percentage of positive responses to the question of whether or not a customer was satisfied with a customer service interaction. For a country to be included in the quarterly report, it must have a minimum of 10,000 responses during the quarter.

About Zendesk

Zendesk builds cloud software for better customer service, bringing companies and their customers closer together. With Zendesk, companies engage directly and openly with customers, building more meaningful customer relationships that last a lifetime. More than 30,000 companies, such as Gilt Groupe, Disney and Box, use Zendesk to provide service to more than 200 million people worldwide. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, Zendesk has offices in seven countries and funding from Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, GGV Capital, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners and Redpoint Ventures. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.