Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Kickstarting your customer experience program

If you’re not yet focusing on the customer experience with your organization, it’s time to get started and kick it into high gear. Customer expectations are higher than ever and evolving. You’ve got to get ahead of that. There are often challenges to getting a customer experience program off the ground in any organization, so let’s overcome those and get moving.

What is an agent touch?

Whether it's to inform your sales or marketing teams, it’s likely that you’ve done lots of analysis on your customers to help determine exactly what they need and want. But have you ever analysed how your teams are interacting with your customers to inform service improvements? Learn more about how understanding your agent touches can benefit your business.

Why you need to connect sales and customer service right now

The fact is, better customer experiences are better for business. Great CX means your customers are happier, feel taken care of, and are more loyal, all of which leads to more profits. It takes the right tools and data to fuel those experiences, and a lot of it is already at your fingertips. Your customer service team knows a lot about your customers - how they actually use your products, what’s working and what’s not, and what they want to do.

Integrations to brighten up your month

Lodago (Support) (Sell) optimizes your online appointment booking so you can save time, energy, and money. Make appointment scheduling as easy as possible so that you can boost your productivity and sales. You send interactive emails to your prospects from your CRM. The availability of your calendar is integrated inside the email. Your prospect opens your email and can choose a time slot directly inside the email, without leaving their inbox.

Looking ahead to the future

The future of building successful businesses is rooted in how deeply they understand their customers as well as how quickly they can keep up with and exceed their expectations. With actionable insights, businesses can be more agile and respond faster to customer needs — generating better service and creating better products along the way. The end result is Zendesk’s vision of the world: a global economy powered by lifelong customers.

Sales development representative: SDR sales role guide

If you’re reading this, you probably have a solid idea of what’s required for a strong sales team: The question is: which members of your team are handling all of this? If you expect your sales representatives to handle this avalanche of logistics while also closing deals, you’re setting yourself up for some seriously burned-out teams and major issues with efficiency. The secret to a successful modern sales team isn’t the closers—it’s the people behind the scenes.

Value chain analysis how-to: Definition, examples, and guide

At this point in the sales market, there’s no such thing as a truly unique company or product. With hundreds of overlaps in product types, product features, company values, and overall pricing, it’s challenging to stand out from the crowd and even harder to do so without blowing your budget. Value chain analysis lets you pinpoint the costs and values of every aspect of your business so that you can put your best foot forward and increase your profit margin.

What exactly is direct selling? | A direct sales explainer

When someone mentions direct sales, your first thought might be of a well-intentioned friend hawking health powders and supplements for some multi-level marketing company. While technically direct selling, that image doesn’t come close to describing the impact of the direct sales model. If you’ve waited in line for the new iPhone in front of the Apple Store, you’ve participated in direct sales.