ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Nathalie Herrman who writes about three key principles that are at the root of all great customer service. She also reminds us that the customer experience begins with the employee experience. – Shep Hyken. Where was the empathy? It made me want to scream. Where was the humanity?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing. In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. In general, technology is augmenting —not replacing — the employee.

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Contact Center Self service Banking Airlines 275

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Brie Tascione, writes about the importance of improving the customer experience in the healthcare industry to improve loyalty and reduce frustration. Any service industry today must keep up with the technological advances when communicating with their customers.

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Healthcare Advertising Education Technology 318

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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Customer Experience Airlines Average Handle Time Contact Center 232

ViiBE Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has massively disrupted the retail sector making remote customer service and satisfaction increasingly essential to provide. Both customers and companies are adapting to find new ways to resolve after-sales issues and effectively collaborate from a distance. How are customers feeling?

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ViiBE Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has massively disrupted the retail sector making remote customer service and satisfaction increasingly essential to provide. Both customers and companies are adapting to find new ways to resolve after-sales issues and effectively collaborate from a distance. How are customers feeling?

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Customer Service Chatbots Self service Sales 52

Eptica

JANUARY 5, 2021

Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Reviewing 2020 – our top blog posts from last year. blog post here ?on on the Enghouse Interactive blog. Why creating empathy in your customer service is so hard. blog post here ?on on the Enghouse Interactive blog.

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Self service Marketing Management Customer Service 104

ShepHyken

AUGUST 16, 2019

Communicating clearly and effectively is key when working with customers. Clarity will help your team minimize confusion and assist customers fast and more successfully. Card pieces is an easy game that helps develop negotiation skills and improve understanding and empathy. Hugh Beaulac, ? MC2 Bid4Papers ?. Crazy Comic.

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Personalization Customer Service Marketing Sales 215

ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Ian Landsman writes about the importance of training and preparing customer service representatives to interact with customers. I agree that every employee should go through customer service training, and it should be ongoing. Shep Hyken.

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Customer Service Education Customer Support Management 209

Steve DiGioia

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re in a leadership role, you should know by now that your customers are always evaluating your every move. Your position of power comes with a responsibility to deliver the best possible service and products to your customers. That’s right, your every move. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.

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Feedback Management Customer Service Customer Experience 182

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Customer Insights/Measurement/Analytics. Customer Journey Mapping. Project/Program Management.

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Journey mapping Analytics Customer centricity Government 307

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. The 5 Rules for improving the customer complaint process are: Read between the lines. Embrace customer complaints. Empathize with the customer. Be fast, stupid.

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Consulting Consulting Call Center Metrics 383

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Video outperforms all other communications methods when agents and customers need to quickly resolve an issue. This blog will provide some insight into the benefits that can be extracted from video along with how. Blog #2 of 4: It’s NOT just another channel.

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Contact Center Technology Customer centricity Analytics 92

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This month, our readers have turned their interests and attention toward topics of empathy, vision, quality programs and leaders, and how to show appreciation to our agents for the upcoming Customer Service Week in October. Here are our top 5 blog posts in September.

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Customer Service Coaching Contact Center Call Center 147

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Language is essential to your customer experience , so today, I thought we could examine why. My focus on language this week started when Shane Smith from Everetics , a customer support and service consulting company, sent in a None of Us Are as Clever as All of Us video on the importance of language. I felt that way, too.

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Lumoa

MARCH 9, 2023

In the world of customer experience, “customer empathy” is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changer. Put simply, it means genuinely caring about the experience your customers have with your brand. Customer empathy is at the heart of Lush’s approach to building trust with its customers.

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Comm100

MARCH 14, 2024

Chatbots have become a ubiquitous part of customer service and support. As businesses strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of their customers, the adoption of chatbots has emerged as an essential move to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.

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Chatbots Customer Service Personalization Feedback 88

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. Falling Into the Empathy Gap.

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Customer emotions Consulting Consulting Call Center 390

Comm100

APRIL 2, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores are a vital metric for any business trying to track and improve their customer service and support. The scores provide a snapshot of how satisfied your customers are with your products or services, indicating areas of success and those needing improvement.

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Wait times Feedback CRM Surveys 89

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of my followers weighed in with their own experiences that tell a truth that is hard to swallow, the world has changed for good, but it’s not good for customers. She thinks customer service is out the window and that getting a good experience is a pleasant change from the usual. It turns out it wasn’t.

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Airlines Calibration Self service Consulting 365

Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming w ebinar “How and Why Customers Use Self-Service” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of ContactBabel . Blog #1 Into the Vortex “Cross Channel is the New Omni-Channel”. Customers now also expect to have choices….

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Self service Contact Center CRM Customer Support 58

ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Marcelle Santos, a copywriter at TextExpander , a software that helps individuals and teams communicate efficiently and consistently with their customers. She shares why customer standards matter and how your organization can meet them. Raise your customer service standards.

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Customer Service Accountability Self service Customer Support 161

Expivia

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In this blog, we embark on a journey through practical QA scenarios, illuminating how Auto QA, enhanced with advanced prompting , is reshaping the assessment landscape. In this blog, we embark on a journey through practical QA scenarios, illuminating how Auto QA, enhanced with advanced prompting , is reshaping the assessment landscape.

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Contact Center Technology Feedback Analytics 52

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Understanding Vectors by Vecteezy As an industry and a discipline, customer success managers are getting better at delivering a higher percentage of positive customer experiences. What is empathy? Customers want to feel heard, understood, and supported – and empathy helps customer service teams meet those needs.

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Journey mapping Construction Best practices Feedback 80

ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2022

He shares how organizations can deliver a total customer experience. What is the total customer experience? Customer obsessive, customer-focused, customer-centric, the idea is to take customer service to a higher level. Here are four areas that help to deliver a total customer experience. .

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Sales Marketing 179

Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Self-Service Helps Agents Too. The Pressure is On.

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Self service Contact Center CRM Quality management 52

Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. Redefining the Customer Agent Experience.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 21, 2020

Amidst all this unsentimental chaos, empathy often takes the back seat. Will the real CEO (Chief Empathy Officer) please stand up? The average entrepreneur will tell you that empathy is important. But is empathy even prevalent? Clearly, empathy is both prevalent and much-needed for success. Empathy at its best! .

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Sales Morale Personalization Scripts 158

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2024

So, it’s not a matter of if but when regarding a customer crisis. Too many organizations do not plan for a customer crisis, and I want to change that. To that end, I have five rules to handle a customer crisis. Many of the principles we use to manage a customer complaint apply in this planning and building of a crisis process.

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Telecommunications Engineering Education Management 195

Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Great service is comprised of many parts and each must be present to create the experience every customer desires. Training for the needed service skills is an essential foundational aspect of great service in any industry. Most businesses follow service standards and guidelines that are specific to their industry.

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Best practices Management Customer Service 231

Vistio

MARCH 25, 2024

As AI’s impact continues to ripple throughout virtually every industry, one area where artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a lot of optimizing is customer service, where CX leaders are imagining a world in which AI-powered chatbots can respond to any customer inquire through automated messaging services.

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Customer Service Chatbots Scripts Analytics 52

Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2023

Call centers are at the heart of modern customer service and that makes active listening an indispensable CX tool. As call center managers, you have the power to train and encourage your agents to become active listening experts; enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Contact Center Call Center Abandon Call Construction 67

Nicereply

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today we will go through 12 things to do to improve your customer support in 2022. 12 things to do to improve your customer support. Blog tip: 3 Customer Service Skills for Handling Difficult Conversations. Blog tip: 6 Tips for Writing Satisfying Customer Service Responses.

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Average Handle Time Customer effort Metrics Customer Support 98

24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will delve into the key aspects that contribute to a positive patient experience, explore the role of generative AI and tech-enabled patient care, and examine how patients perceive interactions via digital platforms. This, in turn, can lead to improved population health and reduced healthcare costs.

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Healthcare Consulting Consulting Technology 52

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 5, 2021

Due to the pandemic we’ve seen major shifts in the contact centre, with existing trends such as remote working accelerating and customer needs changing dramatically. In this post, we highlight some of the key developments of last year in a review of our top blogs from 2020. Optimising for contact centre remote working.

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Self service Service level Technology Customer Service 40

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Jeremy Watkin on How Listening to Your Customer Service Reps Can Give You a Competitive Advantage. Do you realize there is a hidden gem in your customer service department? But first… Shep Hyken discusses the power of the customer satisfaction survey. Customer Service Stop Words.

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Steve DiGioia

MARCH 25, 2020

So many others are sharing their stories or suggestions on how they’re coping with the isolation and fear of the unknown that it seemed petty for me to still write about customer service tactics when most businesses aren’t even open – and some may never reopen because they couldn’t withstand the revenue losses during the imposed shutdowns.

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Personalization Management Sales Customer Service 262