ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be…. Element #1: Fast. Element #3: Clear.

Customer Support 168

Customer Support Customer effort Self service Metrics 168

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This week we feature an article by Matthew Smollen who says e nsuring your clients have an amazing call center experience when interacting with your brand is one of the best ways to encourage repeat and referral business. This is multiplied in a contact center as often the customer experience is the main focus.

Call Center 192

Call Center Scripts Contact Center Advertising 192

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listen to the podcast: Bob Black, one of our podcast listeners, loves our ideas about evoking specific customer emotions. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. Customer behavior can help here.

Customer emotions 221

Customer emotions Call Center Customer Experience Customer Support 221

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

Interactive Voice Response 232

Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Self service Contact Center 232

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2024

Listen to the podcast: You have a hidden impact on your return on investment for your customer experience management programs. This hidden impact kicks in between a given moment in your customer process and the customer behavior that results from it. She asked the right blokes about this one.

Customer emotions 195

Customer emotions Construction Surveys Finance 195

ShepHyken

AUGUST 26, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Doug Sandler, busts some popular customer service myths. Arming employees with knowledge and training is key. work to prove or debunk a myth (or myths) through a series of experiments involving trial and error, advanced exploration and communication.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Airlines Government Consulting 0

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week we feature an article by Jessica Wise who shares a story to illustrate how you can develop a lifelong relationship with your customers by creating a customer experience they will never forget. The chance to shock and awe your customers will arise when they present you with a problem that needs solving.

Customer Experience 282

Customer Experience Personalization Customer Service Marketing 282

ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

This week we feature an article by Mike Schoultz who shares his top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer. Customer service designs that are remarkable get talked about. And getting talked about in this light is a great thing, right? No question.

Customer Service 236

Customer Service Scripts Customer Experience Personalization 236

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. I wondered how I did that.

Customer centricity 427

Customer centricity Airlines Consulting Consulting 427

ShepHyken

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week we feature an article by Eugene Aronsky who talks about good customer service versus bad customer service and how proper training and proper knowledge are key to answering any question that a customer may have. – Shep Hyken. Good customer service is essential for a successful business.”

Customer Service 215

Customer Service Call Center Sales Marketing 215

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 10, 2020

Psychologists call this a Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), and it can wreak havoc on your customer-driven growth. . We explored FAEs in our latest podcast and the effect they can have on your Customer Experience outcome. The danger with FAE is it leads to a total misinterpretation of customers. What is an FAE? .

Consulting 448

Consulting Consulting Call Center Personalization 448

ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Benny Tjia shares lessons learned from the hospitality industry about creating a customer focused culture. It was roughly about three years ago when I started developing Bornevia, a customer service help desk software, along with my team. Shep Hyken.

Best practices 204

Best practices Customer Service SaaS Education 204

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When I was in corporate life, my boss asked me to improve the Customer Experience and do it for the least cost. what is a Customer Experience?” This idea was revolutionary in that day, but today, the business world has more or less accepted that emotions are a significant part of interactions with customers.

Customer emotions 435

Customer emotions Management Journey mapping Customer advocacy 435

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2020

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. We do a lot of waiting in our lives.

Wait times 403

Wait times Management Consulting Consulting 403

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.

Customer effort 457

Customer effort Government Consulting Consulting 457

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 2, 2020

There’s a silver lining in everything, even this pandemic. However, from a business perspective, a silver lining is that its impact forces business to re-examine business, embrace risk, and reimagine things from a different perspective. In this issue, we will discuss how to avoid being one of them.

Customer Experience 488

Customer Experience Airlines Journey mapping Consulting 488

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This week we feature an article by Tim Richardson who writes about a hospitality experience gone bad and then reminds us what must be done to provide a great guest experience. – Shep Hyken. Think about an incredible service experience you’ve had recently. What about the service experience was extraordinary?

Consulting 124

Consulting Consulting Sales Marketing 124

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better. Customers now expect: Their time be valued. The more YOU KNOW. .

Self service 76

Self service Contact Center Benchmark Chatbots 76

CCNG

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There are five key performance indicators you should track to make sure your contact center operations are aligned with customer expectations. FCR should be a North Star metric for all contact centers as it measures efficiency, performance, agent training levels and tests internal processes and systems.

Metrics 195

Metrics Contact Center Average Handle Time Surveys 195

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2019

I believe it is crucial to do more than discuss your theories about Customer Experience strategy. In other words, theories are fascinating but falderal unless you implement them in your Customer Experience. I find it exciting to discuss practical tools and approaches. The Reasons Behind Our Reasoning. Let me explain.

Journey mapping 373

Journey mapping Customer emotions Scripts Consulting 373

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 2, 2020

Apple has an excellent experience. We could all learn a lot from how they approach business as usual to facilitate customer-driven growth. Why do I like Apple’s experience? What we do want is to know how to facilitate customer-driven growth. Their retail experience encourages feelings of ownership.

Customer centricity 398

Customer centricity Customer emotions Consulting Consulting 398

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. They focused their attention on the customer-facing teams at first. That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. After all, no one can address everything at once.

Finance 195

Finance Customer centricity Accountability Technical Support 195

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Many companies are attempting to improve their Customer Experience focus on some of the right things and then ignore the others. So while the vast majority of companies today know that putting the Customer at the heart of everything they do is important, when it’s time to do it, they are flummoxed. Step two: Have a plan.

Customer emotions 414

Customer emotions Education Consulting Consulting 414

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. As the Head of Customer Support and Engagement at HotDoc, she is responsible for leading the customer support and engagement strategy.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Customer centricity Contact Center Consulting 207

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.

Customer emotions 390

Customer emotions Consulting Consulting Call Center 390

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. Maersk Line is an excellent example.

Customer Experience 390

Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Education 390

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. Rightly so, to be honest.

Customer Experience 385

Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys 385

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.

Wait times 89

Wait times Feedback CRM Surveys 89

ShepHyken

JULY 22, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Boaz Amidor, shares four techniques that have striking, measurable results when it comes to the efficiency of the Customer Support Program of companies providing online and mobile customer support. Customer support is just like this. Shep Hyken.

Journey mapping 180

Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback Surveys 180

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

BlueOcean

MARCH 19, 2024

On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. We know a seamless outsourcing transition is essential for maintaining operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, and you need to go on the transition journey with a team of people you barely know.

outsourcing 71

outsourcing Customer Care Best practices Management 71

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated.

Customer Support 124

Customer Support Bilingual agents outsourcing Contact Center 124

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.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response outsourcing 52

AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Large language model (LLM) training has surged in popularity over the last year with the release of several popular models such as Llama 2, Falcon, and Mistral. Training performant models at this scale can be a challenge. These features improve the usability of the library, expand functionality, and accelerate training.

Scripts 100

Scripts APIs Engineering Finance 100

Call Design

JULY 22, 2020

One of the most significant challenges that contact centres face is an incredibly high rate of agent turnover, creating a cyclical problem where the Learning and Development team is continuously training new agents for them only to stay with the company for a couple of months. Facilitate a Great Onboarding Experience.

Gamification 173

Gamification Consulting Consulting Personalization 173

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When companies implement specific tools and best practices, they can significantly improve their customer experience (CX), increase agent performance, and ensure high-quality service. It represents a holistic approach that is aimed at transforming call center functions into a streamlined, customer-focused powerhouse.

Best practices 105

Best practices Call Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 105

JustCall

APRIL 3, 2024

It shows more customers are interested in your product or service. But, it also leads to chaotic calls and handling long call queues for customer support and sales teams. It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI. It can further lead to a dip in customer experience and a shrinking ROI.

Sales 52

Sales Interactive Voice Response Abandon rate Wait times 52