What’s your type? 4 types of customer service operations

“Actions speak louder than words,” right? How you behave means more than what you say or what you look like. Turns out, this applies not just to people, but to sales, marketing, social media, and especially customer service management. In our latest Zendesk Benchmark report (released today), we decided to explore this idea by taking the time to look beyond typical industry designations (what your company “looks” or “sounds” like) in a search of a more relevant and accurate classification for benchmarking customer service performance. The four types of customer service organizations Using a cluster analysis process, we grouped customer service...

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G Suite gains traction in the enterprise

Google’s G Suite business (Google Workspace) is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business customers. Today, there are more than 3 million paying companies that use G Suite. G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google...

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