Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

September 2022

How to Identify and Address Customer Pain Points

Every product or service is designed to address specific customer pain points or challenges. Yet, why is it that only a few are an instant hit among the masses, and the rest pass by unnoticed? Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, you can excel only when you identify and solve for the right customer needs. Read this guide and find answers to.

How to Leverage Software to Improve Customer Service Efficiency

As the software industry progressed, so has the customer service sector. As a result, the customer service landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, and software has played an enormous role in this change. Gone are the days of waiting on hold for hours or dealing with frustrating automated menus. Instead, today’s customers expect and demand a much higher level of service, and software is one of the vital tools that customer service teams use to meet those expectations.

A+ integrations

Yext User History (Support) reveals a requester’s journey through your Yext Search experiences—up until and after case creation. Arm your agents with this data so they can provide more relevant answers. The component displays all of the actions a customer has taken in Yext search. With this visibility, your agents can both communicate more efficiently with customers as well as identify gaps in documentation that haven’t effectively answered the customer’s questions.

Top 3 things retailers are missing in digital CX

Change is the only constant in the retail service industry. That’s certainly been true in the past several years, when a record number of customers flocked to online channels to do their shopping. Almost overnight, retailers big and small had to adapt to a whole new way of serving their customers digitally. For retailers to compete in today’s crowded market, they need to create excellent customer relationships in all the places people shop—online and in brick-and-mortar stores.

How e-commerce brands use conversational AI to reduce customer effort

The e-commerce market has exploded over the past few years and is continuing to grow at an accelerated rate. By 2023, online retail sales are anticipated to reach.17 trillion. With more people doing their shopping online than ever before, e-commerce CX has become a priority for many businesses. With a highly competitive landscape of as many as 12 million e-commerce companies, delivering easy and convenient customer experiences is more than a differentiator—it is a necessity for brand success.

How tech scale-ups can improve customer experience using data

To provide the best customer support at any phase in your customer’s lifecycle, your teams need access to contact and company data—and every team must have access to the same information. This requires a centralised location for all relevant communications and open support tickets, and the ability to streamline information between sales, marketing and support teams.

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.

How to Configure an Email Ticketing System with Invgate Service Desk

Handling IT support through email can be challenging, but adding an email ticketing system might help you put some order into the chaos. This means that by using it, you can meet the customer where they are and you wouldn't need any training for the end-users. In this video, you will see how to configure an email ticketing system in less than 5 minutes with InvGate Service Desk.

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 7 Digital Workplace Trends You Should Be Keeping Up With

The recent onset of digital workplace trends is the driving force of change behind the shifting and agile, modern workplace. If the past few years have taught us anything, organizations have no choice but to adapt to the rapidly accelerating tide of digital transformation. Along with the evolution of digital transformation has come a more comprehensive digital workplace technology landscape. To increase productivity and employee experience, organizations redefine what a digital workplace is to keep up with digital workplace trends.

50 Customer Service Statistics You Need To Know (Updated For 2023)

Customer service is becoming a critical driver of how a company is perceived, what drives consumer loyalty and determining where they open their wallets. Companies are equally praised for the exceptional support they provide, while others are relentlessly chastised for failing to deliver. Below, we want to show you how that perception has become reality with 42 customer service statistics you need to know for 2021.

What is Agent Experience? (+Tips to Improve AX)

Approximately 96% of business leaders reported that focusing on agent experiences makes it easier to retain top talent. That’s not all. An astounding 87% of business leaders also shared that prioritizing employee happiness will give them a competitive advantage. Despite these findings, only 19% of companies have made agent experience their strategic priority. As a result, poor agent experience contributes to high turnover rates, especially for contact center agents.

What is Freshworks Analytics?

Analytics is built for for every Freshworks Customer. With Analytics, you can deep dive into your data and obtain insights, specific to your business. Analytics is a no-code platform built for everyone - you decide which metrics you want to track, how you want to see them and you can do it without having to write even a single line of code. Power-packed features to help with business insights.

Self-Service Checklist - What You Need

Imagine you just bought a brand new guitar and you’re ready to shred. Your amp is on and set high, your cords are all plugged in, you’re ready to jam. You strum an E major chord only to find that it plays an F minor – not good. You just want to noodle over Baba O’Reilly but now you have to call support, explain a whole spiel, and potentially deal with long wait times and some irritating back-and-forth until you can finally realize your inner Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Andrew Carothers on Customer Experience | Customer-Centricity, Trends in CX, Crucial Skills

Welcome back to our series where we interview influential CX Leaders. Recently we spoke to Andrew Carothers (Sr Manager, Digital Experience @Cisco) about the customer-centric business model, emerging trends in CX, crucial skills in the field - and more! "Andrew is a Senior Customer Experience leader helping companies and their partners increase customer adoption and retention, improve renewals rates, and drive growth at scale through digital engagement. Builder of award-winning strategies and programs.

Why Do Organizations Need an ITSM Ticketing System

For an IT team, the ability to respond to problems efficiently is arguably one of the most important aspects of the department. Sluggish reactions to IT issues can slow down an entire business, leaving core functions of an office slowed down or even completely unable to be performed. As a result, business leaders have a significant interest in ITSM ticketing systems.

Why your business isn't customer centric

Raise your hand if you’ve heard that your business needs to be customer centric. Now raise your hand if your business is customer centric. If you didn’t raise your hand at all – and not only because you are in a public space and are wary of strangers seeing you perform erratic movements – then you better quickly learn why your B2B business needs to be customer centric. Never even heard of customer centricity?

The Modern Traveler Takes Off: 4 Examples of Travel Companies Taking Steps to Enhance the Travel CX

Due to a last-minute cancellation, a traveler from Vancouver, BC was forced to book a flight that cost four times the amount of her original ticket ($960 CAD instead of the original $250 CAD). While she was booked on a replacement flight scheduled to depart days later, this interfered with her larger plans, an “adventure of a lifetime” to Australia. The once giddy and enthusiastic mood quickly darkened.

How To Grow Your Online Store with Great Reviews

No reviews or negative reviews? Get the answer from Godard Abel, CEO and Co-founder of G2. One of the first things customers look for before making a purchase is authentic reviews from fellow shoppers. In fact, about 95% of customers read reviews before making a purchase. Customer reviews provide social proof, build credibility, influence consumer purchase decisions, and help boost online sales by 18%.

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.

Creating Knowledge Base Articles to Reduce Your Number of Tickets

Knowledge base articles can help your organization optimize resources and keep useful information in one place. Doing this can reduce the number of tickets by giving end users basic knowledge to resolve some situations by themself. It will also help agents who are unfamiliar with that topic to help others. In this video, we’re showing you how to easily create and administrate knowledge base articles in InvGate Service Desk.

This Season, AI is in Vogue: Conversational AI For Retail and eCommerce CX

Back-to-school, Christmas, or simply refreshing one’s home decor for the changing season. Whatever the occasion, the holiday shopping season is fast-approaching, and for some, already underway. Yet, this season is a bit different from those of the past. For one, consumer habits have evolved since the pandemic- nearly 40% have switched brands or retailers during the pandemic, and more than 80% have new shopping behaviors, such as adopting “buy online and pickup in-store” services.

ITSM Fundamentals: The Core Functions of ITSM

As businesses grow, hire more employees, and develop larger networks of IT assets, their need for a more comprehensive IT strategy grows. There has to be a framework upon which they handle requests, issues, or anything else relating to their internal network to keep a mid-size business running smoothly, This is where IT Service Management (ITSM) comes in. ITSM goes beyond just a basic ticketing system, setting a solid foundation with sets of procedures for every key aspect of IT.