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How to create seamless conversational customer experiences

Chatbots offer exactly what customers expect from a brand in 2022: instant, convenient and effortless interactions. But the truth is that no matter how intelligent your bot is, there will always be situations when a human takeover is necessary—or at least highly advantageous to reach the best outcome. A seamless hand-off between bots and live agents creates messaging interactions customers love.

Business-to-business messaging with Slack and Zendesk

There's something so old-fashioned about poring over email threads trying to find answers. Traditionally, business-to-business communication has been relegated to emails, video chats and phone calls. It left a lot to be desired—namely, convenience. We message our friends, family and colleagues on a variety of platforms and apps, so why can't businesses leverage the same kind of rich, intuitive communication when they interact with other businesses?

How Zendesk Does Knowledge Management Vol. 3 Community Event

Recently the Community hosted our 3rd KCS event where we took a look into how Zendesk handles Knowledge Management. Our experts from our Self Service Team showcased their best practices around KCS and explained the importance of the solve/evolve loop and how it can identify any gaps missed by Knowledge-Centered Support. We also sat down with customers and addressed questions live from the community on our topic of focus!

The ultimate guide to CX in FinTech

Consumers have embraced the idea of banking and investing online, and that’s good news for FinTech companies. But with more people doing their business and their banking online than ever before, it is challenging for FinTechs to differentiate their offerings from traditional financial service providers who have online offerings as well. The highly competitive landscape creates challenges for FinTechs who want to attract customers away from traditional financial service providers.

Christmas gift shopping behaviour has changed - Now is the time for retailers to adapt

With inflation on the rise and an uncertain economic environment ahead, customers are rethinking their purchases. By focusing on what really matters to customers, retailers can offer an affordable yet memorable Christmas shopping experience this season.

Why FinTechs need to deliver superior digital customer service right now

As the world turned digital, the FinTech industry was ready to ride the wave. But now the market is showing signs of slowing. FinTechs that are not growing their user base are at risk of being acquired. And because there are now so many players in the digital space, there’s fierce competition to keep and acquire new customers. And therein lies the key to success: customers. More and more, the distinction between a stellar FinTech and a struggling one is the quality of its customer experience.

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.

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!

Startup growth-hacking strategies are not one-size-fits-all

There’s no such thing as a foolproof startup growth hack. There’s lots of talk about some of the most famous growth hacks, but they’re usually not repeatable because everyone needs to find their own magic formula: a combination of foundation-building, customer focus, timing, and luck.