Don’t bother choosing between speed and quality when it comes to customer experience, because businesses need both to be among the best. Speed plus effectiveness is the formula for CX success, according to findings by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Research. Leading CX orgs are customer-centric to the hilt; they resolve customer issues more quickly, all while handling more customer requests overall and engaging with those customers on more channels.

Despite the global pressure of finding ways to solve customer challenges in the new normal, business leaders have found that the right set of tools with a focus on customer experience can be a powerful competitive advantage. But because of the pandemic, offices globally are working at limited capacity, and communication and collaboration with employees, customers and partners has become more difficult.

As many companies are aware, in 1992 the U.S. Congress declared the first full week in October “National Customer Service Week.” It is now an event celebrated worldwide. It is a week many companies use to say thanks, encourage, express gratitude, and show their appreciation for their customer service employees. This year’s theme is particularly significant, Ignite a CX Celebration!

For IT leaders, customer experience was already a hot topic, but the pandemic has amplified the importance of delivering a thoughtful and modern customer experience. Today's challenges bring into focus those attributes and hurdles that most directly tie to customer experience. In a nutshell, positive customer experience ties directly to revenue.

In this article, we’ll compare Zendesk vs Intercom to find out which is the right customer support tool for you. By the end of the article, you’ll not only know all of the main differences between Zendesk and Intercom, but you’ll know which is the right tool for you. Let’s get started.

A lot of companies react to growth pressures by trimming their customer support budget. That may provide some quick breathing room, but it’s not a prudent long-term solution. After all, it’s cheaper to retain a customer than to acquire a new one. And when we polled consumers on what factors inspire the most brand loyalty, 57% cited good customer service, making it second only to price. Luckily, there are ways to invest in better customer service without ballooning the budget.

At Zendesk, my team and I are going beyond adjusting for the new normal. We are taking this difficult time as an opportunity to completely reimagine how we work. Covid-19 forced us on a journey to reenvision and realign our practices, tools, and services.

As an ITIL-aligned, ITSM system, the emergency services were impressed with our flexible approach in fulfilling their needs, our cost-effective high quality solution and top support. It’s critical for each service to keep up with technology, given the thousands of technical incidents being handled every year. Having a best-in-class IT Service Management tool is imperative to the successful running of their systems.

Keeping up with customer expectations is vital to your business — and that means your support operations need to be nimble. Does your support software allow your team to easily add new channels? Or enable your agents to easily switch between channels keeping customer context? If not, it might be time to consider a switch. Here are four ways Zendesk can help you deliver great customer service (and make your life easier).

Across industries, people tend to fall into the habit of using acronyms to describe common concepts they encounter. Customer service representatives are no exception. But anyone new to the industry or trying to understand it from the outside, acronyms make communication confusing and difficult. And even people who have worked in customer service for years may still come across the occasional acronym that leaves them scratching their heads.