Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

What is Customer Service Week? +8 virtual ways to celebrate it

Customer service jobs can be tough during normal times, but the pandemic has made things even harder. Over the past year, customer support agents have been dutifully fielding a sky-high number of queries from customers worried about canceled flights, ambiguous insurance conditions, delayed packages, and other urgent and emotionally-loaded issues. Customer engagement has reached record highs all while service representatives have been adjusting to longer hours, new technologies, and remote work.

The 2021 Guide to Call Center Reporting & Analytics

Call center reporting converts raw data into insightful reports. Based on the type of report, you can understand agent performance, evaluate key performance metrics, and make informed decisions to enhance your customer service. Moreover, identifying and resolving issues on a granular level can help you build strategies to achieve excellent customer engagement. In this article, we’ll cover what call center reporting is, its benefits, and the top eight call center reports.

Do-not-reply emails: Pros, cons, and best practices

Anyone on a support team will tell you that responding to every customer inquiry is tough, especially if you’re working for a small business with limited resources. Using a do-not-reply email—a special type of account that’s unable to receive incoming messages—may seem like a tempting way to lessen that volume. It’s true that do-not-reply emails have their perks, and they may have a place in your business model.

Reimagining ITSM With Online Communities | Community Matters ft. Stephen Mann

In this episode of Community Matters, IT Analyst Stephen Mann discusses recent IT trends and the influence of online communities in fostering peer-to-peer support among IT professionals. IT service management is continuously evolving. Organizations are taking steps to ensure meeting higher employee expectations while adapting to workplace reconstruction. A critical piece of the puzzle, sometimes overlooked, involves sharing resources and engaging with peers to achieve efficiency.

Zendesk welcomes Cleverly

At Zendesk, we believe a key component of providing great customer experiences includes ensuring your agents are armed with the right tools and processes to deliver them. But with conversation volume increasing by more than 20 percent year over year, over a growing number of channels, support teams are struggling to keep up. As a result, businesses increasingly turn to AI to provide faster and more reliable service and make teams more efficient.