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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

ShepHyken

Customers want their concerns resolved swiftly, without having to wait in line or being handed from one executive to another. . A good customer experience (CX) begins with a 24-hours seamless website user experience, followed by top-notch customer care, and concludes with the receiving of the product/service purchased from you. .

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Want More Sales? Give All Your Money Away!

Beyond Philosophy

This year, outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia announced that it would give 100 percent of its Black Friday retail and online sales to grassroots environmental organizations. In a subsequent blog post , company CEO Rose Marcario reported that Patagonia had expected Black Friday sales to reach $2 million. Sales soared in 2012.

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Sigma Connected Adopts Encoded Agent Assisted Payments to Further Enhance Both Security and the Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

The Birmingham-headquartered BPO which started out with just 20 full-time staff in 2011 and now employs over 5,000 people in the UK, USA, Australia and South Africa, is using the Encoded solution to streamline payment processes, strengthen the organisation’s security framework and improve the agent and customer experience.

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Act Like an Owner – Revisited!

ShepHyken

One of my favorite concepts to cover in my customer service keynote speeches is to act like an owner. I originally wrote about this in 2011 and shared the story of an 18-year-old server at a pizza restaurant who took so much pride in his work that the guests thought he owned the restaurant. You’re coming with us.”

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5 Facts to End the ROI Debate on Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. In addition, higher levels of customer satisfaction are tied to high levels of positive cash flows with low volatility, and positive earnings surprises.

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Wells Fargo: They Should Do This

Beyond Philosophy

The San Francisco-based bank, whose employees opened many fraudulent and unauthorized accounts in their customers’ name, now enjoys the dubious honor of shouldering the most substantial penalty the agency has issued since its formation in 2011. Wells Fargo blew it with their customers. Extreme Says It Best for Wells Fargo.

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REI and Balancing Sales and Customer Experience Improvement

PeopleMetrics

Sales or Customer Experience? Through the lens of his personal experience, the ex-employee asked : “If REI is focused on customer experience and a co-op style of business, why are employees only being measured by membership sales?”. Improving Customer Experience through Measurement.

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