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Providing a great customer experience during the holiday rush

To help keep the annual holiday rush manageable, we’ve compiled a list of tips that’ll help…

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How Zendesk customers benefit from self-service

For a deeper dive into the benefits of customers helping themselves, we highlighted five of our…

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Sales and support: Collaborating to increase growth

Businesses must seek to grow with existing clients and enhance the value of these relationships over time

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How to support your robot co-worker

We’ll learn to work well alongside our robot co-workers, but to get there, both sides are…

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Why chatbots won’t necessarily replace humans

Chatbots will play a much larger role in customer interactions in the next five years, but…

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Untapped: the ROI of customer service

Customer service can have a direct impact on the bottom line. So why do so few companies understand the ROI of customer service?

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How will artificial intelligence assist customer service agents?

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

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FAQ-page design: Be savvy about self-service

With DIY on the rise, customers will greet a well-designed FAQ page as a useful tool—and a welcome relief.

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Machine learning: a new potential in customer service

Machine learning will soon affect many aspects of our lives, so here are some potential innovations coming to customer service by way of machine learning

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How video can enhance self-service

The human brain processes video at astounding speeds. Try using it in your support pages.

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How AI is shaping the latest customer support trends

With the growing vigilance of how trends are being affected by automation, we've noted a few…

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3 Results of bad customer service

Here's a list of what providing bad customer service can do for your company

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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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Why you must offer chat support

It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar: having spent some time researching a product online, Jane…

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Zendesk and WeWork partner to help growing businesses create better customer relationships

We’re excited to announce that today, Zendesk is partnering with WeWork on the launch of their…

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Uncover the value of support: 3 ways to combat customer frustration

If your company’s current processes can’t properly address a barrage of customer grievances (and you’ll know…

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Forrester’s 2017 Customer Service Trends

Exceptional customer experiences have become the norm—these days customers expect seamless, helpful, and deeply personal service.…

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