Customer support management
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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Article 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
Article 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.
Article Businesses are made up of people
Businesses are made of people, and those people have relationships and ties to the communities they live in
Article 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
Article 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
Article 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
Article 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.
Article 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.
Article 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
Article Keep support knowledge fresh and useful
Knowledge is the product that your support team owns and builds every day
Article Making the most of an NPS survey
What can an NPS survey tells you about your customer experience?
Article 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
Article The ROI of empowered agents
Agents who feel empowered show improved performance and increased loyalty—a serious boon in today’s competitive business landscape
Article 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
Article 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.
Article 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
Article 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.
Article Sales and support: acquiring customers
Acquiring customers requires not only an amazing sales team, but the ability to provide prospects with quality experiences
Article 6 Benchmarking best practices
Benchmarking done right is much more than a casual, anecdotal look at the competition. Here are some benchmarking best practices
Article 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