Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Why companies need customer tutorials [+ how to create them]

There’s nothing more frustrating than making a purchase and discovering you don’t know how to use the item you just bought. The situation can be equally upsetting for the business selling a product or service. If a customer doesn’t know how to use it, they won’t see its value—a recipe for churn. This is why customer tutorials are a valuable tool in your company's mix of marketing and customer support content.

How Netflix Started: The Inspirational Success Story

Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph's in his keynote at Freshworks ON Fest spoke about the value of innovation, persistence, and optimism and the Netflix’s inspirational origin story. On August 29, 1997, two men launched an online DVD-rental store with 30 employees and 925 titles. They called it Netflix. Watch the video to listen to Marc Randolph speak about the corporate culture that made Netflix a success and went on to dominate entertainment streaming.

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.

10 Ways to Align Your Teams for a Service-Optimized Organization - Podcast

In this episode of the Vivantio Vibe podcast, we share with you 10 ways to align your teams and garner support from the boardroom for optimizing your service management platform. Whether you're a C-level leader looking to rally your teams to investigate and adopt state-of-the-industry methods, or a CS/CX manager who needs to win support and resources from the boardroom, it's essential to have a strategy for communicating your vision and advocating for the action and resources required for success.

Personal selling 101: What it is and how to do it well

Customers love to feel special and understood. According to research from Epsilon, 80 percent of customers say they’re more likely to do business with a company if it offers personalized experiences. Additionally, 90 percent indicated they found personalization appealing. Personalization often begins long before a consumer even considers making a purchase.

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.

Gross sales vs. net sales: Key differences explained

As a sales manager, your eyes are glued to your company’s revenue. You’re focused on helping your team close more deals and increasing profitability. But are you sure you’re measuring sales revenue in the best possible way? Gross sales and net sales are two common metrics that offer distinct advantages when it comes to gauging revenue. If you’re not sure what they are and how they differ from each other, you’re not alone.

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.