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The CEO's Guide to M&A Due Diligence: Why You Must Examine the Support Queue

When CEOs think about mergers and acquisitions (M&A), due diligence usually means combing through financial statements, assessing market share, or reviewing legal risks. Those areas are critical—but they don’t tell the whole story. Hidden in plain sight is one of the most valuable due diligence resources you can access: the customer support queue. Support data isn’t just about answering tickets.

CRM Integration with Customer Support Platforms: Why It's a Game-Changer for B2B Success

If you want to deliver standout customer service in B2B, one of the smartest moves you can make is connecting your CRM system with your customer support platform. When the two work together, your support team gets a full picture of the customer—past interactions, purchase history, preferences—everything they need to provide faster, more personal, and more effective help.

Why Customer Service Ratings and Reviews Matter

Feedback matters in the customer-centric era of business we work in. Whether it’s a customer telling your CEO that an agent did a great job or giving them a “negative” face after a chat session, there are many ways companies can receive feedback about their business. One method that has increased in popularity over the years is ratings on third-party sites like G2 and Capterra.

5 steps to get started with self-service - Step 5: Optimize your help center and plan maintenance

On August 12, the Zendesk team hosted the last delivery of our series 5 steps to get started with self-service - Step 5: Optimize your help center and plan ongoing maintenance. Join us in this Zendesk session, to watch our experts Patty and David guide attendees through advanced strategies for optimizing and maintaining a Help Center as part of a broader self-service series. The focus was on enhancing knowledge base articles with multimedia, managing content efficiently using article lists and context panels, and leveraging enterprise features like team publishing and article verification.

The Private Equity CEO's Guide to Using Customer Support as a Value Creation Engine

When a private equity firm acquires a company, value creation becomes the ultimate goal. Investors expect measurable growth, higher profitability, and improved operational efficiency — and quickly. While sales expansion and product innovation often steal the spotlight, there’s a powerful, overlooked growth lever that costs far less to optimize: customer support. In B2B SaaS, a strong support function is more than an operational necessity.

The Difference Between B2B Customer Support and B2C

Here at TeamSupport we use the term “B2B” a lot, but not everyone knows what it means or why it’s important. B2B is simply shorthand for “Business to Business”, and it generally refers to who you sell your product to. If your company sells a product or service to other businesses, you’re a B2B company. The inverse of B2B is “B2C” – This means Business to Consumer.

How Customer Expectations Are Related To Customer Satisfaction

Does your customer service software help you measure customer expectations? Understanding the relationship between customer expectations and customer satisfaction is crucial to business success. Companies must grasp, understand, and manage customer expectations effectively in order to deliver experiences that meet or exceed them. When they do, businesses can use that momentum to enhance customer satisfaction, build stronger customer relationships, and drive business success.

6 steps to implement Zendesk WFM | Step 1: Plan your setup

Get started with Zendesk Workforce Management (WFM) in this comprehensive onboarding session designed to help you streamline and optimize your customer support operations. In this video, you'll learn how to: Confirm WFM is successfully activated Manage and customize user access Create Teams and assign tailored Roles Monitor agents in real time with tracking tools Each topic includes a live demo to walk you through the key features and workflows, so you can confidently apply what you learn directly in your own Zendesk account.

6 steps to implement Zendesk WFM - Step 2: Organize your work streams and tasks

Get started with Zendesk Workforce Management (WFM) in this in-depth onboarding video and Q&A, designed to help you master the tools that are transforming customer support. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Integrate Zendesk WFM with your existing tools Implement WFM best practices Empower your team to achieve WFM excellence What you’ll learn: Create Workstreams Create general tasks Validate tasks using the Agent Activity feature Set up Automation.