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The four C’s of cherry-picking
With cherry-picking, rather than choosing the next available request your agent chooses one they’d rather work on
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Time to build a support operations team
It might be difficult to determine how and when to add a support operations team. Learn how we did it.
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The key to great service? Saying “I don’t know”
Meet Zac Renault, a Zendesk customer advocate who provides French language support. He's an avid table tennis player and someone who isn't afraid to say, "I don't know" when he encounters a tricky customer issue.
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Are your customer service representatives happy?
It's not always easy to tell if customer service representatives are happy or not, but agent satisfaction surveys and agent performance metrics can help
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8 support manager skills to develop
6 support manager skills to focus on that will ensure your support team will be ready for anything
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6 tips to hone your support superpowers
To hone your support superpowers, here are 6 tips to keep top of mind when offering customer support
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Tip of the Week: Auto-assigning Tickets
Today’s tip of the week describes how to automatically route tickets to a particular agent, or…
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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
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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.
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Ibotta scales training hurdles with Zendesk and Lessonly
Lessonly and Zendesk provide a powerful one-two punch for customer service and care agent training and…
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The ROI of empowered agents
Agents who feel empowered show improved performance and increased loyalty—a serious boon in today’s competitive business landscape
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Communication is key to great tech support
Alex has a background in technical support, but it was his experience as a history and…
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The art of business analysis in customer support
Jen Neuls’ early career was in the arts. Now as Senior Business Analyst for Zendesk’s Advocacy…
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Optimize your customer service training
Correctly investing in customer service training not only ensures that customers receive the best possible service,…
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Tiers for fears: Is tiered support for you?
If you’re a business with consistently growing customer base and ticket volume, it might be time…
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