āActions speak louder than words,ā right? How you behave means more than what you say or what you look like. Turns out, this applies not just to people, but to sales, marketing, social media, and especially customer service management. In our latest Zendesk Benchmark report (released today), we decided to explore this idea by taking the time to look beyond typical industry designations (what your company ālooksā or āsoundsā like) in a search of a more relevant and accurate classification for benchmarking customer service performance. The four types of customer service organizations Using a cluster analysis process, we grouped customer service...
Continue readingG Suite gains traction in the enterprise
Googleās G Suite business (Google Workspace) is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business customers. Today, there are more than 3 million paying companies that use G Suite. G Suiteās GmailĀ is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google...
Continue readingFAQ-page design: Be savvy about self-service
FAQ-page design: Be savvy about self-service Wonderful conversation makes the world go āround, and weāve heard your support agents are pretty wonderful to talk to. But self-service is gaining steamāin fact, one Zendesk survey found that 67 percent of respondents actually prefer it, and 91 percent would use a knowledge center if it met their needs. At the heart of a sterling self-service offering? A killer FAQ page. Customers whoād rather help themselves will greet a well-designed FAQ page as a useful toolāand a welcome relief. With fewer tickets for agents to address, itās aso a boon for efficiency...
Continue readingGoogle Glass is Apparently Still Around
Today, in its first update since September 2014, Google Glass got a āMyGlassā companion app update, some bug fixes and now supports Bluetooth. That means the new āXE23ā version can now hook up mice, keyboards and other Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass device. The app update rolled out yesterday and, in an even bigger surprise, the firmware update for Glass came out today. So, Glass is alive? Well, yes, but it never really died. Despite seeming to go the way of the Dodo (you canāt buy it anymore and Google shut down the websiteĀ in 2015), it never really left...
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Deliver a seamless online customer experience
Youāre a busy support leader with a team to manage and KPIs to meet. Up and to the right is a series that focuses on simple, actionable tips you can use right now to meet your goals. Weāve all experienced that frustrating moment when youāre online and in dire need of help but there isnāt an easy way to get in contact with the company. It might be a āContact Usā page buried in the page footer, a lengthy form requiring information that the company should already know, or simply an email address with no indication of when youāll...
Continue readingGoogle Gives $1 Million Donation to Preserve LGBT History of Stonewall Inn
Google is donating $1 million to preserve an oral history of the 1969 Stonewall riots that were the groundbreaking moment for the LGBT rights movement. Sen. Chuck Schumer made the announcement on Sunday that Google.org, the companyās philanthropy branch, is donating the grant to the LGBT Community Center in New York City to start the project. Schumer says the purpose of the project is to spread the word and educate future generations about the Stonewall riots. āThe purpose is to spread the word about the Stonewall uprising and the progress we have made as well as the distance we...
Continue readingGoogle Gives $1 Million Donation to Preserve LGBT History of Stonewall Inn
Google is donating $1 million to preserve an oral history of the 1969 Stonewall riots that were the groundbreaking moment for the LGBT rights movement. Sen. Chuck Schumer made the announcement on Sunday that Google.org, the companyās philanthropy branch, is donating the grant to the LGBT Community Center in New York City to start the project. Schumer says the purpose of the project is to spread the word and educate future generations about the Stonewall riots. āThe purpose is to spread the word about the Stonewall uprising and the progress we have made as well as the distance we...
Continue readingHow AI is shaping the latest customer support trends
What does the near future have in store for us? It looks full of self-driving cars, built-in curators for Netflix queues, and homes that know your temperature preferences better than you do. Artificial intelligence is likely to touch on every aspect of our lives, and thereās no telling what crazy innovations weāll be seeing in the next decade. Itās difficult to be completely certain when it comes to artificial intelligence, but itās a pretty safe bet that it will change the customer experience as we know it (and likely sooner than later). Itās telling that business leaders are placing...
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