Skip to main content

Infographic 1 min read

4 steps to optimize your customer service technology

Last updated August 19, 2019

Implementing your technology solution is a major milestone—and just the first step in a journey. As your business evolves, the technology supporting it needs to evolve with you. Routine check-ins are key. As your business evolves, follow these straightforward steps to ensure that the technology supporting it evolves with you.

  • 3 to 6 months: Take a step back and understand how your business is evolving. Does the use of your technology align with the ways in which your customers engage with your brand? Does your team understand how to customize what they’ve got?
  • 6 to 12 months: Fine-tune the last round of changes. Do they still make sense? Dig into your metrics with an eye for any bottlenecks.
  • 12 to 18 months: Congrats, you’re growing. Chances are those initial workflows and business rules don’t serve your now larger team. Take the time to figure out: What do you need to get to the next level?
  • Annually: What are your corporate goals? Tune your service strategy and also execute against it.

The Zendesk CX organization offers broad customer service expertise and deep product knowledge to guide you through these changes. Learn more about how we can help.

Related stories

Article
1 min read

Customer success playbook: A comprehensive guide

Customer success playbooks help align your team goals with your customers’ to drive better results and retention. Enhance your customer experience with our free success playbook templates.

Article
3 min read

Voice support is as popular as ever. Here’s the newest way to manage customer service calls

Introducing the Zendesk Voice API for seamless customer support.

Podcast
1 min read

How companies can bolster the well-being of their support teams with Tade Anzalone at Calm

As any support team manager can attest to, the deleterious effects of stress and burnout have…

Article
1 min read

Behind the scenes: How top hospitality brands deliver 5-star guest service

Discover how Zendesk can enable you to provide world-class customer service consistently, even in the midst of labor shortages and rising costs.