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Customer experiences can be complicated, but your customers don’t have to know that. Read our how-to guides for actionable steps and behind-the-scenes tips for building better customer relationships.


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Work smarter: Live chat best practices

As with any customer support channel, there are tried-and-true ways, as well as less effective ways,…

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Help centre or help desk? How to differentiate between these powerful self-service tools

According to knowledge base, collects content from your website and offers it as a self-service tool…

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8 knowledge base article templates that work

The key to success is finding the right mix of knowledge base article templates for your target audience. Use our templates to get a head start.

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3 tips for improving your IT service desk

Get ideas on how to improve your IT service desk so you create a support loop that benefits the entire company—and your customers.

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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7 best practices for creating a stellar mobile experience

Use these best practices to create a valuable, efficient and convenient mobile experience that will keep your users engaged and loyal

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What is customer retention rate? How do you calculate retention rate?

While companies should closely monitor their customer retention rate and churn rate, there are other customer retention metrics worth paying attention to.

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6 call centre training tips for building an exceptional team of agents

Here are six call center training tips to ensure your agents can deliver a positive, helpful customer experience

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How to build customer loyalty in 7 steps

To build customer loyalty, you must dig deeper with AI-driven insights and automation. Read on for strategies to forge people-first customer relationships.

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How to track consumer behaviour (and why you should)

Track consumer behavior and leverage that data to create better, more personalized customer experiences.

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Let’s get conversational: 9 ways to transform your CX with messaging

Messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have made it easy to connect with anyone, anywhere…

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30 customer service email templates and best practices for contacting customers

Use these customer service email templates along with customer support software to speed up your email workflows, save time, and increase efficiency at scale.

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Getting started with Sunshine™

If you’ve ever called a company with a question, only to be bounced to different departments…

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Customer complaints: definition, examples and resolution tips

Customer complaints aren’t ideal, but they can help improve your business. Here’s how to handle them in an impactful way.

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A guide to mobile CRM

Your sales team are unlikely to be in front of their computers all day, so they…

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The 5 most important customer service techniques

Customers are king and in order to treat them like royalty, your customer service team needs to deliver the best experience every time

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How to justify your sales CRM cost

While you might be convinced that your sales team needs a CRM, others within your organisation…

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Optimise your sales CRM to improve customer service

In the experience economy, customers expect to have consistency across all interactions with your business. Customer…

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How four companies deliver exceptional customer experience at scale

Delivering exceptional customer experience at scale can be a challenge, but with a modern, easy-to-use CRM…

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88 effective call centre scripts: Examples + template

Leverage our call centre scripts and customizable template to help agents deliver consistent and excellent customer service experiences.

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