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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.

Contact Center of the Future: Empower Agents with AI Co-Pilots

Despite the accelerating pace of Generative and Conversational AI innovation disrupting contact centers, today’s customer experience (CX) agents are under the same pressure points as always – business performance pressures from one side and demanding customer expectations from the other.

Ticket Deflection: The Key To Increasing Customer Support Efficiency

Ensuring that customers have a superior experience using a product or service is a top priority for most companies. Customers expect to have access to fast and easy customer support when and where they need it. As a matter of fact, research shows that 40% of customers stopped doing business with a company due to poor service. However the current economic climate is forcing more companies to make tough decisions regarding where to focus their resources.

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.

How to Build a Customer Experience Strategy: 5 Best Practices + Examples

There are many moving parts in play when trying to explain, let alone execute, an exceptional customer experience. It truly takes a village and a good customer experience strategy to get things done effectively. Staying on top of your CX strategy is vital as customer behavior and digital channels of engagement continue to change how business is done. But it’s easy to be overwhelmed even before you get started.

State of retail CX 2023

The retail industry is under enormous pressure to change. Over the past few years, shoppers have moved from in-store to online and are now somewhere in between. And they expect the same level of excellent service on every shopping channel (even emerging ones like livestream commerce). What does this mean for retailers? It’s no longer enough to offer great products. Brands are now competing on the quality of customer experiences.

Top 5 reasons why customers need an endless aisle

An endless aisle is an innovative solution that blurs the lines between brick-and-mortar and online shopping. When a product is out of stock or a store isn’t large enough to carry its entire catalog, an endless aisle captures an in-store customer’s intent to buy in the moment by directing them to the retailer’s website via an in-store kiosk or tablet, a QR code, or NFC device.