Keeping your company data safe with new security updates to Gmail

Keeping company data secure is priority one, and that starts with protecting the tools that your employees use every day. We’re constantly adding security features to help businesses stay ahead of potential threats, and are excited to announce new security features for Gmail customers, including early phishing detection using machine learning, click-time warnings for malicious links, unintended external reply warnings and built-in defenses against new threats. New machine learning models in Gmail to block phishing Machine learning helps Gmail block sneaky spam and phishing messages from showing up in your inbox with over 99.9 percent accuracy. This is huge,...

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See the customer journey more clearly: Introducing the Pathfinder app

Imagine you’re a customer in need of help. Perhaps, you wanted to learn more about Zendesk’s Insights feature (as one example). Your first step might be to search our Help Center and check out one of our articles about Insights. But, that might not be the information you’re looking for. A second step then, might be to also check a forum about the Insights dashboard on the Zendesk Community. However, the forum doesn’t cover your issue. Finally, you reach out to a Zendesk support advocate for help. In some support situations, the advocate might suggest that you read Help Center articles...

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Trivago’s Support Experiences

At trivago, more than 950 employees are focused on driving innovation across both the company’s hotel metasearch and marketing solutions by challenging the industry’s status-quo. Since 2005, trivago has been one of the fastest growing internet companies within the travel technology sector. Today, it’s the world’s largest hotel metasearch company. Every month, over 120 million travelers use trivago to find their ideal hotel for the lowest possible rate by comparing prices from more than a million hotels. To provide travelers with the level of detail they need when searching for hotels online, trivago realized they needed to build close relationships with...

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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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FAQ-page design: Be savvy about self-service

FAQ-page design: Be savvy about self-service Wonderful conversation makes the world go ‘round, and we’ve heard your support agents are pretty wonderful to talk to. But self-service is gaining steam—in fact, one Zendesk survey found that 67 percent of respondents actually prefer it, and 91 percent would use a knowledge center if it met their needs. At the heart of a sterling self-service offering? A killer FAQ page. Customers who’d rather help themselves will greet a well-designed FAQ page as a useful tool—and a welcome relief. With fewer tickets for agents to address, it’s aso a boon for efficiency...

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Google Glass is Apparently Still Around

Today, in its first update since September 2014, Google Glass got a “MyGlass” companion app update, some bug fixes and now supports Bluetooth. That means the new “XE23” version can now hook up mice, keyboards and other Bluetooth-enabled objects to their Glass device. The app update rolled out yesterday and, in an even bigger surprise, the firmware update for Glass came out today. So, Glass is alive? Well, yes, but it never really died. Despite seeming to go the way of the Dodo (you can’t buy it anymore and Google shut down the website in 2015), it never really left...

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Deliver a seamless online customer experience

You’re a busy support leader with a team to manage and KPIs to meet. Up and to the right is a series that focuses on simple, actionable tips you can use right now to meet your goals. We’ve all experienced that frustrating moment when you’re online and in dire need of help but there isn’t an easy way to get in contact with the company. It might be a “Contact Us” page buried in the page footer, a lengthy form requiring information that the company should already know, or simply an email address with no indication of when you’ll...

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