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Self-service support: Why companies need it and how to do it right

See how self-service support and agents can work together to provide an exceptional service experience that keeps your customers coming back.

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Creating an FAQ page? Here's what you need to know.

Get creative with your FAQ page to provide robust self-service options and enrich your customer experience.

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19 best FAQ page examples & how to build yours

FAQs are important customer-facing resources every business should have. Take a look at some FAQ page examples for inspiration to make your own.

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs for help center customization

To help businesses ensure they’re building meaningful help center experiences, we created a hierarchy of needs for help center customization best practices

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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'Many to many'—providing richer, scalable customer support in the Zendesk Community

An active user community is a great way for users to connect with one another, share ideas, and get answers to questions. Here's how the Zendesk Community improved and enhanced our customers' experience

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How we improved self-service for our customers

By improving our own customer service offerings, we aim to learn best practices we can pass along to our customers that enable them to do the same

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Keep it customer-centric: Self-service tips from Freshly

After enjoying considerable return on its knowledge base investment, Freshly continues leaning on self-service to support its growth

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The 3 keys to silo-free, scalable self-service

Having a knowledge base is one thing; but how do you manage content as it gets used across your business, in new and different contexts? Scale it smartly with these tips in mind.

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What is tier 0 customer support?

Tier 0 support is a great way to help your customers help themselves

Meet us at the top

Read the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report.

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Support your support with self-service

More than 20% of agent time is spent looking for info, but having a good knowledge…

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Providing automated self-service where customers (and agents) want it most

As customers trend towards becoming more self-sufficient, they’re becoming more accustomed to interacting with AI-powered tools for the support they need.

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The data-driven path to building a great help center

Given the importance of great self-service support, which course should companies take to build out theirs? We turned to the Zendesk Benchmark for answers.

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Join the Zendesk Experience Research Panel and help shape the future of our products.

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Differentiate your brands with unique help center experiences

Brands that fall under the same parent company have unique customer bases, branding, and personalities. Why should their help centers be any different? Learn more about multibrand functionality in Guide Enterprise.

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The dynamic, long-term impact of self-service

Self-service is often considered an end goal for a support organization. In reality, it's much more dynamic, driving long-term efficiencies and customer-first philosophies across the entire business.

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Tap into the right self-service analytics to measure success

If you're unsure how knowledge management is moving the needle on customer support, let self-service analytics be your guide as you plan for the future

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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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Make self-service easy with the Web Widget

Most customers would rather not call support if they don't have to. Learn how to make it easy for them to find what they need

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