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How to improve customer service: 20 effective tips for 2025
Customer service is the cornerstone of any business, creating relationships that last a lifetime. Improve customer service and the positive knock-on effects can be felt at every level.
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How to start a virtual call centre that provides excellent customer service
Learn the best way to set up and manage a remote customer service team.
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Retail reopening - the importance of an omnichannel service approach
As Europe begins to work through a phased scheme to ease lockdown restrictions, retailers are slowly…
Guides and ebooks
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Insights to Explore: A change management guide
The role your data plays has probably evolved since your business has grown, which means now…
Discover AI innovations shaping service at Zendesk AI Summit
Join us for our biggest digital event of the year. Hear from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, be the first to see new AI innovations, and choose sessions tailored to your role. Plus, get your AI questions answered by experts during the live Q&A. Now available to watch on demand.
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3 steps to improving customer satisfaction this Black Friday
Despite the Black Friday phenomenon being just a few years old this side of the pond,…
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Mastering change management
See how you can master change management, a structured approach to organising people, processes and technology in order to smoothly implement change within a company
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What is customer service?
Customer service is the support you offer customers throughout a business relationship. Learn why it’s important and assess your own customer service aptitude.
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Zola marries passion for support with modern tools
Zola is reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience.
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How Freshly provides seamless, time-sensitive support
As one of the fastest-growing prepared-meal companies, the most important part of our business is accurately shipping fresh, nutritious meals to customers every week
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Fullscript’s prescription for omnichannel customer success
Fullscript provides a single, easy route to better health.
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Customer support like texting your (girl)friends
We’re each the sum of the five people we spend the most time with, says Olivia June, founder and CEO of VINA.
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Raising the bar: 4 more leaders in customer service
Achieving great leadership in customer service means going beyond what’s expected.
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Geckoboard conquers global support with data
Research by Global Workplace Analytics found that the number of full-time US employees who regularly work at home has grown by 115% since 2005.
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How Spokeo connects more people, faster than ever
Spokeo uses the Zendesk Support, Guide, and Chat products, along with a key integration with Tymeshift, to provide seamless omnichannel support across its email, live chat, and self-service channels
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Sales and support: Collaborating to increase growth
This is the third post in a four-part guest blog series from Base CRM dedicated to exploring the ways that sales and support can partner to help drive each other’s KPIs and business objectives
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Which call center metrics should you really focus on?
There are a few call center metrics that tell a broader story beyond the number. They can even provide details you weren’t looking for in the first place
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Customer success for the win-win
Your customers live busy lives, so you have to enable your customer success team to make the process of learning to use your product as streamlined as possible
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Work smarter: live chat best practices
As with any communication channel, there’s a right way and a less effective way to offer live chat to your customers
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