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Future of fashion: stitching convenience with sustainability

To keep pace with customer expectations, the fashion industry is slowly but surely making its move towards sustainable practices. Read how weaving a focus on CX might just be the key to gaining customer trust.

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Christmas is coming. How retailers can be merry this season.

Discover how retailers can deliver a memorable yet affordable shopping experience during this holiday season in a climate where inflation is soaring and consumer confidence is at its lowest.

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Top ways to drive collaboration between support and development teams

Collaboration between CSAs and developers can be difficult at best – and a blocker at worst – which can have disastrous impacts on customer support success metrics. But there's a better way.

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How to improve customer service: 20 effective tips for 2024

Customer service is the cornerstone of any business, creating relationships that last a lifetime. Improve customer service and the positive knock-on effects can be felt at every level.

Women in Leadership

At Zendesk, we care about creating an inclusive environment for all leaders, in particular women leaders, so that we can celebrate achievements, provide networking opportunities and collaboration to help support women in CX and beyond.

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How to start a virtual call centre that provides excellent customer service

Learn the best way to set up and manage a remote customer service team.

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Retail reopening - the importance of an omnichannel service approach

As Europe begins to work through a phased scheme to ease lockdown restrictions, retailers are slowly…

Guides and ebooks
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Insights to Explore: A change management guide

The role your data plays has probably evolved since your business has grown, which means now…

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3 steps to improving customer satisfaction this Black Friday

Despite the Black Friday phenomenon being just a few years old this side of the pond,…

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Mastering change management

See how you can master change management, a structured approach to organising people, processes and technology in order to smoothly implement change within a company

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What is customer service?

Customer service is the support you offer customers throughout a business relationship. Today, how we deliver customer service is changing, so make sure your customer service team is ready.

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How Freshly provides seamless, time-sensitive support

As one of the fastest-growing prepared-meal companies, the most important part of our business is accurately shipping fresh, nutritious meals to customers every week

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Customer support like texting your (girl)friends

We’re each the sum of the five people we spend the most time with, says Olivia June, founder and CEO of VINA.

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Raising the bar: 4 more leaders in customer service

Achieving great leadership in customer service means going beyond what’s expected.

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Support beyond tickets

Zendesk isn’t just a ticketing solution.

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Geckoboard conquers global support with data

Research by Global Workplace Analytics found that the number of full-time US employees who regularly work at home has grown by 115% since 2005.

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How Spokeo connects more people, faster than ever

Spokeo uses the Zendesk Support, Guide, and Chat products, along with a key integration with Tymeshift, to provide seamless omnichannel support across its email, live chat, and self-service channels

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Sales and support: Collaborating to increase growth

This is the third post in a four-part guest blog series from Base CRM dedicated to exploring the ways that sales and support can partner to help drive each other’s KPIs and business objectives

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