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Workflow

How to make your workflow flow

March 12, 2019
Agent experience Operations Workflow

As your support teams grow, here are some tips on how to optimize operations at scale

How to collaborate across teams to scale customer support

March 8, 2019
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For enterprise companies with hundreds of employees and dozens of departments, you often need to go outside of your customer service team to answer a question

The path to a better customer service workflow

March 4, 2019
Customer experience Customer Support Workflow

You’ve done the work of building a strong team of great agents. Now, empower them to provide the best customer service they’re capable of.

Enhancing the agent experience with contextual workspaces

January 4, 2019
Agent experience Productivity Support Workflow

Support agents don't benefit from clunky interfaces or confusing processes - to ensure that agents have everything they need at the right time, they need a contextual workspace

Zoom + Zendesk: the benefits of video for remote support

July 17, 2018
Agent experience Apps and Integrations Apps Marketplace Workflow

We spoke with Zoom’s head of support and our own experts about the benefits of using Zoom’s video app in Zendesk, and we’ve included a few additional benefits for agents that use video for remote support in customer service

What we’re learning from Answer Bot

November 6, 2017
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At Zendesk, we have jumped into exploring this newer world of business-applicable machine learning with Answer Bot

Support beyond tickets

October 31, 2017
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Saving time, improving efficiency, boosting productivity: isn’t this what every business owner wants? Yes it is.

How will artificial intelligence assist customer service agents?

July 21, 2017
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New innovations in artificial intelligence will have big upsides for customer service agents, notably for their productivity and efficiency with customers

The more the merrier: Add teams to Zendesk Support

April 14, 2017
Customer experience Infographics Support Workflow

Your customer service team answers many of the day-to-day questions that arise (and they’re great at it), but expertise from other departments is sometimes required

How to build ideal workflows in Zendesk Support

January 25, 2017
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Join our latest Fine Tuning discussion to learn more about the remaining “building blocks” of an ideal workflow

Building your Zendesk workflow brick-by-brick

September 22, 2016
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Building your Zendesk is a lot like building with LEGOs. Each component of Zendesk is made to work in harmony with the others so that you can create the strongest spaceship—or ticketing system—you can imagine. In today’s Fine Tuning discussion, I’ll walk through some key features, or building blocks

Community Tip: How to set a reminder on a ticket

August 8, 2016
Admin Tips Workflow Zendesk Tips

Learn how to use custom ticket fields and automations to set a reminder on a Zendesk ticket

All about the “About” custom ticket field

June 30, 2016
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When the About field is set correctly, it allows you to categorize the topics your customers are asking questions about. This, in turn, can help speed up ticket

Tip of the week: Best practices for altering your custom ticket fields

June 21, 2016
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This Zendesk Tip of the Week covers best practice for altering custom ticket fields in your Zendesk.

Streamline your Zendesk notifications for effective team communication

April 27, 2016
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We’re often asked how to optimize Zendesk notifications to ensure that both customers and your support team aren’t overwhelmed. Today, I’ll walk you through my steps for auditing your notification strategy

Community Tip: Managing complex SLA needs with Zendesk

May 5, 2015
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Recently, we’ve had the amazing opportunity to play around with enhanced service level (SLA) functionality in Zendesk, and it resulted in some pretty significant changes to the way we work. I thought I’d share some of what we learned along the way in this Community Tip

Zendesk on Zendesk: The lifecycle of a problem ticket

April 30, 2015
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Join us in the Zendesk forums today for the next installment of our Zendesk on Zendesk series. We’re hosting a day-long discussion focused on the lifecycle of a Problem ticket. I’ll post suggestions about how Zendesk Support tracks and resolves

Community tip: Funneling customer orders through Zendesk

April 21, 2015
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My company recently got rid of our CRM for various reasons and, while we were not quite ready to graduate to an ERP system, we had to bridge the gap between our Sales team and the processing of our orders. That’s where Zendesk came into the fold

Meeting customer expectations… at scale

April 8, 2015
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Meeting expectations. It doesn’t sound thrilling, or particularly hard. In fact, it sounds like the note your professor might scrawl on a “C” grade term paper: “meets expectations.” But in the world of customer service

Fine Tuning: Agent productivity

January 29, 2015
Admin Tips Support Workflow Zendesk Tips

Is your ticket volume growing, causing your support agents to stress about staying ahead of the game? Today is your day! We’re hosting a discussion in our forums today focused on increasing

Community tip: connecting Zendesk and Google spreadsheets

December 18, 2013
Admin Tips API & Developer Tools Workflow Zendesk Tips

At Control Group, we’re constantly reevaluating our own internal workflow to be more productive using the tools we already have

Community tip: queuing up overnight tickets

April 1, 2013
Agent Tips Workflow Zendesk Tips

When things are busy, like first thing in the morning, support teams may rely on colleagues outside of the customer service organization to help solve tickets. The key is finding an easy way to help

Simplified IT service management, part 4

March 5, 2013
Customer service leadership IT Support Workflow Zendesk Products

I went through my years in IT support never knowing the difference between incidents and problems. My colleagues and I would use them interchangeably when it came to logging faults and I’d say many support analysts are the same

Tip of the Week: Escalating Tickets

October 21, 2011
Admin Tips Agent Tips Workflow Zendesk Tips

One common step in ticket workflows is escalation of issues from agent to agent, or team to team. This can be a necessity when your various agents have different skill sets, language competencies or regional responsibilities. Zendesk, of course, has a solution for this. We have more than one, in fact. Obviously, the simplest option […]

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