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Frost & Sullivan award Zendesk for leadership in omnichannel digital customer engagement

Frost & Sullivan named Zendesk as a recipient of its 2020 North American Omnichannel Digital Customer Engagement Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership award. Every year, Frost & Sullivan presents Best Practices Awards to companies that inspire growth, leadership, and innovation through differentiation that is predicted to transform their industries in the near future.

Sending surveys in the time of coronavirus

In tumultuous times, you may be inclined to pull back on customer communications. After all, if you knew a friend were sick or an employee had just lost a loved one, could you be sure of the best way to reach out, or if you should reach out at all? But what are the rules if the whole world is experiencing a crisis? You may be wondering if sending a survey to your customers means bothering them at a sensitive time.

Understanding customer engagement platforms

Customers live in an omnichannel world. From phone and email, to social media platforms, live chat, and messaging apps, customers expect to engage with a brand on their own terms, and in the same communication channels they use to connect with their friends and family. And once they engage with a company, customers want fast, personalized service, meaningful marketing, and smart, thoughtful recommendations.

Customer Data Management: 5 Key Elements to Build Your Strategy

How much data does the world generate in a single day? The answer through a simple Google search is a mind-boggling 2.5 quintillion bytes! This data is valuable to organizations because it helps to answer questions on how customers make buying decisions. So customer data is collected, stored, and analyzed in an organized manner by companies and this process is called customer data management.

Build a business case for your management to invest in field service management software

As a manager handling a team of employees who go on-site and resolve customer issues related to your product/service, buying field service management (FSM) software to help you manage the workload of your team is critical—especially as your business scales and the team grows. However, such a purchase decision will often require management buy-in. The management needs to completely understand the ROI associated with such a product.

We use self service to decrease ticket volume, and you can too

The Customer Advocacy team at Zendesk noticed a spike in ticket volume in the summer of 2019. There’s no way we could have known that less than a year later we’d be in the midst of a global pandemic that has resulted in a surge in ticket volumes across a wide range of industries. As the situation continues to unfold, self service is emerging as a practical solution for customers and businesses alike.

11 Experts Share Their Tips on How to Adapt to Working From Home

If you are working from home for the first time, you may have needed some time to figure out what works best for you. However, when you’re asked to do this for the very first time in a limited timeframe, what do you do then? You turn to someone who has done this before, made mistakes and learned from them, and knows the best practices like the back of their hands.