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As we continue to ask ourselves, “How can we most be helpful to others, right now?” we think the answer lies within certain values essential to our company like appreciation and gratitude.
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Customer orientation: definition, examples & skills
If you want customers to be loyal to you, you have to start putting them first.
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Design in Health helps solve for a better patient experience, from testing sites to nursing homes
Before COVID-19, Design Institute for Health (DIH) at the University of Texas was already reimagining healthcare…
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New Zendesk app integrations are here
The newest integrations from Zendesk—at your service.
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The workplace paradigm has been pretty stagnant for about 100 years: 9-to-5 Monday through Friday; come…
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Changes to SMB sales cycles better position teams for the challenges ahead
Sales cycles for smaller teams had long been changing, even before a global pandemic transformed everything…
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