With an increasing expectation for real-time communication, live chat and messaging are crucial channels for customer service excellence.

Let’s look at some of the most efficient ways to increase live chat engagement on your site

How your agents handle the delicate back and forth of a live chat conversation matters. Some may say proactive chat scripts are the answer. But are they?

Different customer service channels offer unique sets of benefits to a business and to customers. Here's what to keep in mind when weighing live chat vs. phone support.

The name of the customer service game these days is knowing what your customers need before they ask, making proactive chat an essential tool

With hundreds of thousands of members and nearly 100 employees, FabFitFun’s email, phone, live chat, and social channels have to keep up with the company’s rapid growth

“People remember how you make them feel,” said restaurateur Danny Meyer at a retail trade show earlier this year. Your product has to be great—but so, too, does your hospitality

While adding a live chat channel can increase website conversion rates by 29 percent, you can further optimize your chat channel and increase conversion rates with chat conversion tracking. Conversion tracking enables you to see how many of your 600 conversions were influenced by a chat and even which agent was involved

You’ve made the important step of deciding to implement a new Chat channel, but now what? There are many things to take into consideration, from where you place the Chat panel to how you’ll staff your Chat agents

As with any communication channel, there’s a right way and a less effective way to offer live chat to your customers

Meet Peachy Garcia, who currently holds the record for most chats served here at Zendesk. As a senior customer advocate supporting the Zendesk Chat product, Peachy is well-suited to teach us a thing or two about

It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar: having spent some time researching a product online, Jane is ready to make a purchase. She starts to check out and scans the shipping options. Will it arrive when she needs it to with regular shipping or should she pay to have it expedited

Huckberry’s philosophy—treating customers as equals—isn’t limited to brand messaging and doesn’t end at the point of purchase. This core belief permeates all areas of the business, including support

Customers today can be a bit challenging. They want to find answers online…until they want to talk to a human. They expect not only the right answer, but, increasingly, a lightning-fast answer. Enter live chat

Join our product marketing team for an in-depth walk-through of all product updates in the last quarter. In this 60-minute webinar, we’ll take you through the new features in Support, Help Center, Chat, Talk, and Message

Ditzo’s decision to eliminate both email and voice as contact channels in early 2016 was a surprising one. It might even be called revolutionary

Because it is often the first place a customer looks when they want help, the Zendesk Chat Widget can serve as the voice of your website. To deliver a quality customer experience it’s essential that the chat widget is customized

This Zendesk tip of the week looks at agents logged in and agents serving to measure agent productivity.

Pipedrive uses the Zendesk Support, Help Center, Talk, and Chat products—and nearly every feature within Zendesk Support. “Zendesk fulfills all our needs,” Kõiva said, “and there’s no other software out there that is able to do that

Most customers prefer chat to email—why wait for a response via email when a question can be answered within minutes on live chat? As more and more customers expect support via live chat, it’s important for businesses to not only juggle live chats, but exceed chat expectations, whether it be via web or mobile

This Zendesk tip of the week overlays wait time on Chat Reports to identify increases in wait times.

Harry’s brings the same focus on quality to their customer service as they do to their razors

In February 2015, Taylor Stitch moved to Zendesk and now uses the Zendesk family of products—Zendesk Support, Zendesk Chat, and Zendesk Talk—for seamless support

Living by an ‘innovate or die’ mentality, the founders of Dorm Room Movers adopted Zendesk early in their startup journey and today have built