Would it be helpful if you had a way to reach out to your customers before they need to reach out to you? Proactive customer support is one of the biggest customer service trends right now. Proactive customer support is about identifying and resolving customer issues before they become problems. Proactive support also involves identifying ways in which a customer experience can be enhanced without the customer asking for it or even knowing that it’s possible. The truth is, we humans are notoriously bad at asking for help. We may need assistance, but unless it’s easy to come by,...
Continue readingExpand Zendesk with apps and integrations
There is almost 700 apps and integrations available in Zendesk. With these extensions you can expand Zendesk even more and resolve customers, and yours, issues better. Best of all, most of these apps are totally free for you. Let’s now take a better look at four great app, Pathfinder, JIRA, TimeTracking and Unbabel. Pathfinder The Pathfinder app displays a timeline of customers web page visit. App displays user activity within a 30 minutes before and after a ticket is filed.When viewing a ticket, the Pathfinder app allows your agents to see which Help Center articles and community posts customers...
Continue readingWhat you should know about omnichannel customer service
New or smaller businesses often face a puzzle when thinking about channel selection. The number of communication channels available can feel overwhelming. The most obvious choice might be to choose one, maybe two, channels and handle all customer contacts through them. Unfortunately nowadays it’s not longer enough. Customers require businesses to provide a seamless experience as they move between channels and interact with your brand in-store, on your website, mobile app or with your call center. Customers expect a seamless and consistent approach across all those channels. They are becoming more comfortable interacting with companies across a growing number of...
Continue reading5 Business goals that benefit from live chat
Offering customers live chat will often require some balancing. Different stakeholders will have different views as to where it offers the best value. Support might want to keep it focused on the customer experience, while sales might see it as a tool for increasing conversions. Ultimately it’s up to the support manager to determine how live chat would be best used to support the company’s goals. This capability for instantaneous communication can have a fast and significant effect on your business goals. This is why it’s crucial that your live chat goals align with your business objectives. Here...
Continue readingBecoming customer service leader
Nowadays customer service softwares, like Zendesk, collect more and more data on customers and also customer service agents. But what you should do all of this data? You can’t just to quantify and measure your efforts – you must do something worthwhile with the data and always be thinking about how to make the most out of your data. Zendesk recently organized “Raising the Bar” webinar where Cyrus Dorosti, Support Director at Optimizely, had a great quote: “It’s not about which metric you use, but how you use it.” This is especially true in customer service. There are lots...
Continue readingWhy Zendesk?
If you have customers, you need Zendesk. Over 300 million people around the world receive support from Zendesk-powered customer service departments and help desks. Even though average industry ratings for customer service are low, Zendesk customers experience positive ratings for over 86% of their interactions. This is the Zendesk difference. Zendesk is not just another help desk tool. It is the easiest and fastest way for creating great customer service. This unique way of customer service comes down to three things, product, people and practice. Simply put, Zendesk offers industry-leading products, great people and the best practices for improving...
Continue readingHow artificial intelligence will improve your ticketing system
There is a lot of talk about how artificial intelligence is going to come and change customer service, but how exactly will it help you to handle more tickets in less time, and make your ticketing system more productive. Effective AI ticketing system translates routine tasks into efficient communication. Customer service agents will commonly receive insignificant customer inquiries such as cancellations. Agents get bogged down by low-level routine tasks, so they could benefit from an AI-powered ticketing system that can quickly point customers towards the answer they’re looking for. For example, as the ticket comes in, the ticketing system...
Continue readingTop 3 Zendesk features
What is Zendesk? Zendesk is a customer service platform. It’s designed for companies who want to create good customer relationships. With Zendesk, customer relationships are more meaningful, personal and productive. Everything starts by providing great support to customers, after this comes self-service and proactive engagement. Something is beautifully simple when design and function work together to solve a problem. With Zendesk, this means taking design elements that people have grown to expect from consumers software and incorporating them into an easy-to-use platform. This makes the tough work of customerservice simpler and easier. One of the best features of Zendesk...
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