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The Customer Service Management Process: Quality and Consistency

The customer service management process is a crucial part of maintaining customer relationships. It helps businesses keep track of customer interactions, identify and resolve customer issues, and ensure quality and consistency in the customer experience. By understanding the key points of contact in the customer service management process, businesses can ensure they are providing the best possible service to their customers while also improving their bottom line.

What is employee experience? Guide for the future of work

One thing about employee experience is very clear: Workers don’t want to go back to the days of long commutes and uncomfortable pants. Collectively, workers are calling BS on “the way it’s always been done” in favour of flexible work and healthier work-life boundaries. Instead of drawing a line in the sand, now is the time to bring your employees to the collaboration table and start problem-solving. In the future of work, employees are your most important stakeholders.

Things Holding You Back From Switching Service Desks (And Why They're Wrong)

For IT leaders, it is easy to feel *stuck* with a service desk provider that isn't really working out. But switching to a new service desk tool is a lot easier than you think! This is our list of things IT leaders think are holding them back from making the change... but actually aren't!

How to Create the Ideal Shift Schedule (Free Template Included)

A well-thought-out shift schedule can be your competitive advantage, especially in industries that need to operate 24/7, like healthcare and law enforcement, and in companies that need to offer round-the-clock support. Not only will a customer service representative’s shift schedule impact their overall mental and physical health, they also disrupt sleeping patterns – which can affect an employee’s energy and durability.

Customer Service Management and Measurement: Observing and Measuring Customers in New Ways

There’s no question that customer service is important for any business. Happy customers are more likely to return and recommend your company to others, while unhappy customers can damage your reputation and even lead to lost revenue. In fact, customers who rate a company’s customer service as “good” are more likely to refer them to a colleague.

Creating a Customer Service Management Plan

Optimizing your company’s customer service model is not something you should delay or compromise. Customer satisfaction and retention rates are far too crucial for your bottom line. It’s a proven fact that 60% of customer-centric companies are more profitable than companies that don’t prioritize the happiness of their customers.

Best practices on maintaining your agent workforce

Recently the Zendesk Community showcased our best practices on how to manage & maintain your agent workforce. This is part two in our series, hosted by Cat Hurley, Director of Customer Advocacy, where she covered how to empower your team to thrive, work through growing pains as they arise, and plan ahead to handle changes in a looming turbulent marketplace. We were also joined by Jared Loman from Kajabi, who shared his expertise & experiences on our focus topic!

How Chatbots Have Improved and Elevated The Human Experience

Ever wish a robot could cook or clean for you? We might not be on Jetsons-level technology, but for customer service and sales professionals, the robot assistants are already here. When you hear “chatbots” what do you think of? Helpful robots, conversational cannon fodder, or malevolent machines bent on siphoning off human employment? Well for one, chatbots aren’t coming for Customer Support jobs. Secondly, the others are both correct, but only to an extent.