Especially in an era of remote work, it can be difficult to manage the morale of your customer support team. After all, a support agent isn’t a career choice for professionals who are afraid to talk to people. Support teams in the B2B (business-to-business) industry are often full of social personalities and employees who choose to work in an office environment where they can collaborate with colleagues to solve problems.
If you work in a team, OneDesk offers an easy way to manage and share projects amongst team members. While you can share projects with individuals, often it is faster and more consistent to share your projects using teams. In OneDesk you can organize your users into ‘Teams’. Using teams is a great way to manage access to projects, with the least amount of managerial overhead. Here’s everything you need to know about teams in OneDesk.
Though the world is going through some pretty dramatic changes, Zendesk and our ecosystem of partners are here to help with tools to keep your business moving forward.
Messaging helps people foster strong relationships with their family and friends. Now messaging platforms are open for business. Conversational business comprises the different ways messaging channels can be used in support, marketing, sales, and beyond. Customers, shoppers, prospects and leads want to communicate with businesses with the same ease and convenience that they experience when talking to their friends and family.
We all know that knowledge is power. Having a colleague around, whose shoulder we could tap on and ask for help, is also something that is very powerful. However, the whole tap on the shoulder for help option hasn’t been available since most of us shifted to a work-from-home setup – the best alternative we have is reaching out to a teammate on our internal collaboration tools.
In OneDesk there are a large number of options that allow you to configure the software to behave in just the way you want it to. However, most of these options are non-critical and only need to be tweaked along the way, as you decide you want to change the way some things work. Out-of-the-box, OneDesk is almost ready to go to work for you, but you do need to take a few actions and provide a bit of information to get fully configured.
To deliver the perfect customer experience, activities such as creating efficient processes and workflows, quality management, planning shift schedules, etc. are absolutely critical. These come under the umbrella of customer service operations, a core capability that helps scale and improve the level of customer support offered by your company. So who ensures support operation tasks are ideated and executed well so that your customer service standards do not drop?
If your customers succeed, you succeed. So it’s critical for your Customer Success team to work closely with your customers and understand the needs and specific problems they face. However, that’s easier said than done. You’ll need to develop a keen understanding of your customers and their various pain points. In this piece, we’re going to lend you a helping hand. We’ll dive deeper into the science of pain points by covering the following: Let’s get started!
Have you ever wondered what keeps you motivated at work? Is it a word of appreciation from a colleague? Healthy competition between you and your teammates? Or a coffee-break that you spend catching up on a game or just getting a breather? Motivating factors like these work best in an office environment. However, things are different when you’re working from home.
In the most recent release of OneDesk we made big changes to Customer Organizations. Whereas prior to this release customer organizations were relatively simple groupings of customers, now they have become more sophisticated objects, with properties and features that will change the way you use OneDesk.
