In today’s fast-paced and digital world, messaging has become an increasingly popular form of communication for customers. It is important for companies to adapt to their customers' preferences in order to provide the highest levels of satisfaction, gain more customers, and provide the best customer experiences. That’s why we’re excited to announce the addition of two new messaging channels to our live chat software: WhatsApp and Google Business Messages.

A knowledge management system (KMS) gives internal and external users organized access to the necessary information.

A terrific customer experience (CX) is vital across industries and organizations both large and small – from retail to travel and telecommunications. Because, today, it’s pretty competitive out there, customer preferences and loyalties are shifting, and choices abound. Yet just how great of an impact can it have on companies and their customers? As solid proof that CX is bigger and bolder than ever, we compiled a list of 22 eye-opening customer experience statistics.

Customer journey pain points refer to points in the journey, or aspects of it, that bring up obstacles or frustrations that could put customers off. They can dictate whether a purchase is made, the sale size, frequency, and likelihood of referral. While pain points are typically focused primarily during the sales cycle, for B2B firms, a comprehensive look at the entire customer journey is necessary to mitigate pain points’ negative impacts.

The B2B customer journey is vitally important; improving it can lead to better business relationships. The best way to enhance or kickstart a quality customer journey is to establish the right B2B customer journey map. After all, one can’t get desired results without using the right blueprint, and the linear sales funnel that most businesses focus on doesn’t consider the bigger picture.

Customer experience is more important now than ever before. Today, a staggering 80 per cent of customers consider their experience with a company to be as important as its products. While 60 per cent of customers in the UK expect the customer experience to be connected. And to further complicate matters, we live in an omnichannel world where the average consumer will use as many as 10 channels to communicate with a company.

In 1966, Eliza was born. The brainchild of Joseph Weizenbaum and a team of computer scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eliza is widely recognised as the world’s first chatbot. She was pretty basic compared to today’s chatbots but could identify key words in sentences and then ask questions back to the user based on that input.

How do you turn a customer into a fan? Ironically, one of the best ways to trigger word of mouth is to use your own voice and speak one-to-one with customers. Speaking directly to a customer enables you to better understand their needs, which means you can tailor solutions and offer additional services as they become more receptive to cross selling and upselling. Voice interactions can make a customer feel more appreciated as they experience being ‘seen’ and ‘heard’.

What is the difference between energy consumed by 1,000 employees in an office vs. energy consumed by 1,000 remote workers in their homes? It’s complicated. Companies that have performed a sustainability audit probably know how much power the office consumes. They may have designed the building to run on renewables or to conserve energy. They may have tracked recycling and composting. But when much of their workforce is remote, how can they evaluate their sustainability programmes?

It’s always nice to wake up to good news. We are delighted and honoured to learn that we’ve been ranked #1 across three categories in G2’s 2023 Best Software Awards: Pop the champagne! At Zendesk, we love to celebrate successes, but we know that we succeed only when our customers succeed.