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First reply time: 9 tips to deliver faster customer service

First response time refers to how quickly an organisation can respond to a customer. Learn how to measure, track and improve this crucial metric in our guide.

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Making the most of an NPS survey

What can an NPS survey tell you about your customer experience?

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Why your business needs a sales CRM

With so much money and time invested in sales growth, why are sales leaders still falling…

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Introducing Answer Bot®

A new way for customers to find the answers they seek even faster - introducing Answer Bot.

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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Knowledge management is power—and empowering

Equipping your frontline customer service teams with product knowledge is one thing.

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Customer journey map: What it is and how to create one (and examples)

Every company wants to understand what makes customers come to their business – and what makes them leave.

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Fantastic voyage: Customer journey mapping is well worth the effort

Customer journey mapping is a way for companies to see what customers really and truly experience with your brand, whether they’re browsing your knowledge base or being talked through a concern by

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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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What is SLA? Customer service SLAs guide + free templates

Here’s how and why you should create service level agreements.

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The benefits of proactive chat

The name of the customer service game these days is knowing what your customers need before…

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6 Reasons why every call centre should use an integrated ticketing system

Despite major improvements in other realms of customer service, many companies are using outdated technology and…

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Ticket deflection: the currency of self-service

Forrester Research predicts that self-service will be the #1 customer service trend in 2017 because of…

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Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for CRM | Zendesk

In this report, Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Centre 2017, Gartner examines the global market for customer service and support applications.

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Ticket escalation: what it is and how to manage it

Learn how ticket escalation works and why a dedicated escalation process is important for your business.

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What is a follow the sun model?

The sun never sets for businesses that rely on remote support, and global support, for customer…

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A Zendesk cheat sheet for picking your support solution

Choosing the right support solution for your organisation is no easy task.

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Roll out and manage multiple customer service channels

There is a seemingly infinite number of ways to interact with customers these days. Live chat, messaging, SMS—even self-service counts.

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On hold no more: top 5 benefits of a callback service

No one likes calling a company only to be put on hold. In fact, according to…

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Uncover the true value of your customer support organisation

Uncover the true value of your customer support organisation with the technology trends that matter most in 2017.

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