Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

May 2023

Skills-based routing: definition, process and best practice

If you have a large support team, it can be difficult to maintain complex workflows. In an ideal world, your team would easily distribute tickets to the people who know how to handle them best – with no time lost unnecessarily bouncing support tickets between different agents or departments. Without the right tools, teams have to use cumbersome and costly workarounds to route tickets to the right places.

Fill knowledge gaps with the Knowledge Capture app

A comprehensive knowledge base is an essential piece of any 21st-century support operation. But implementing it is just the first step – maintenance comes next. The best way to maintain your knowledge base is by harvesting support agents’ collective knowledge – but they’re often swamped and enabling their contributions can be a huge operational hurdle. Fortunately, you can easily capture content using the Zendesk Knowledge Capture app, which helps agents in three key ways.

Tips for using Zendesk AI for your customer service

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The top trends behind manufacturers' CX revolution

Manufacturers are taking the ‘glass half full’ approach to forecasting their performance for the next couple of years. Specifically, they are viewing CX as a potentially profitable tool as they look to overcome what has been a difficult period of supply chain disruption and rising costs. The rationale is that if they can continue to delight customers, it will help them stand out from a crowd of competitors.

How to control customer service costs in the software industry

As a result of today’s macroeconomic climate, software companies are looking for ways to control costs, accelerate net retention and drive profitable growth. This requires a focus on building customer loyalty through differentiated CX. And agents play a critical role, but many are struggling to keep up with evolving customer expectations. Learn how a tiered approach to customer service can increase customer satisfaction and keep operating costs in check.

How manufacturers can cut service costs with AI

It’s fair to say the manufacturing industry is on the fast track to digital transformation. The pandemic exposed the fragility of our global supply chains, resulting in empty shelves and overstocked warehouses. Meanwhile, as the pandemic subsides, inflation is driving up the cost of goods and logistics, putting the squeeze on companies still recovering from the past few years. So it’s no surprise that manufacturers are looking for ways to cut costs whilst still maintaining quality.

How AI can enhance the customer experience and control costs I Conversations with Zendesk Podcast

We explore the exciting potential for leveraging AI in the world of customer service and experience.. We discuss: Zendesk makes customer service better. We build software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync.

The role of review management in transforming customer experience management

As businesses continue to evolve and compete in today’s highly digital and connected world, the importance of excellent customer experience management cannot be overstated. With the rise of social media, review sites and platforms such as marketplaces, customers now have more power than ever to share their experiences with others. As a CX Trends 2023 case study by Zendesk found out, 66 per cent of customers said that a bad interaction with a business can ruin their day.

The fastest way to understand what your customers want l Zendesk AI

The world is changing and customer experience is shifting alongside. Advances in technology, combined with new and ongoing business challenges, put us all under pressure to continue to evolve, improve, and do more for our customers. We can achieve this by combining AI with rich and dynamic conversational experiences and customer data to provide more personalization—all while respecting the customer’s desire to manage privacy on their own terms.

Consumers expect AI to radically transform service

It’s clear that we’ve entered a new era in artificial intelligence and companies around the world are grappling with how to respond to this constantly evolving technology. Zendesk research indicates that AI will affect every customer touchpoint and businesses that want to remain competitive must have a thorough understanding of what consumers want and expect from the technology.

Our top four CX trends for 2023

If the last year taught us anything, it’s that we must stay flexible and agile in response to market conditions. From the ongoing effects of the pandemic to the war in Ukraine and cost of living crisis, 2022 saw customer service businesses rocked by new obstacles and challenges that forced them to evolve their customer experience (CX) approach to navigate the changing landscape.

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What is Employee Engagement? (+5 strategies for improving it)

The more engaged workers are, the better it is for the business. When team engagement is high, employees will do their best work and bring unique benefits to the company: improved customer retention, reduced employee turnover, and more revenue (to name a few). If you want your organization to succeed, you need to prioritize your people. Especially in the wake of the Great Resignation, it’s essential to start examining—and improving—your employee engagement strategy.

How do you calculate your customer retention rate?

Customer loyalty comes by respecting and continuously exceeding customer expectations. According to a study published by Rare Consulting, 83% of customers say that their loyalty to a brand is mainly down to the fact that they trust them. The same study also reveals that while price (81%), quality (80%) and convenience (55%) are the key factors in making a purchase, companies and brands that are liked (86%) and trusted (83%) benefit from more loyal customers.

What is a sales analysis?

Sales analysis is the process of identifying and processing sales and revenue-related data. Processing this data ultimately allows you to interpret it, which in turn allows your teams to factor any findings in to future sales initiatives and marketing activities. A sales analysis typically includes dashboards and graphs that make it easier to track how sales are developing.

WhatsApp chatbot: use this tool to optimise your customer service

Have you considered streamlining your contacts and optimising the customer experience with the WhatsApp Business chatbot? The feature was released to users of the tool to celebrate the milestone of 5 million companies registered on the app. In this article, you’ll learn how the WhatsApp chatbot works, how to activate it and what it can do to reduce your response time and offer 24/7 support to your customers and prospects.

Era of intelligent CX: Zendesk to unveil new AI capabilities

The world is experiencing a defining moment for humanity: after years of advances, artificial intelligence is having its coming out party. When experts compare it to the invention of the printing press or the Internet, that’s not hyperbole. AI will revolutionise huge segments of our society, and while the full ramifications of this technology cannot be fully known – after all, AI continues to rapidly evolve – Zendesk expects it to affect every single customer touchpoint.

Build vs. buy: 5 reasons companies end up ditching their homegrown solutions for Zendesk

Lots of companies have asked us: why should we buy a CX solution when we could work with in-house developers to build our own? Building your own CX solution is time- and labour-intensive, and it requires an ongoing investment of developer resources to maintain. Many of our customers started with homegrown solutions only to realise that their systems couldn’t meet their needs or deliver the ease and efficiency that Zendesk can.