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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 18, 2024

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) Today, your customers compare you to every customer experience they have with every other brand. Our customer support agents need AI more than our customers.

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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. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Dollar Shave Club Teaches a Valuable Customer Service Lesson

ShepHyken

The Dollar Shave Club continues to impress me with their amazing customer service. I have used them as an example of how to create a membership experience , but now I want to focus on their ability to deliver amazing customer service. One billion dollars! For information contact or www.hyken.com.

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True Confessions: The Trials, Tribulations, Agony, Ecstasy and Irony of 20 Years as an Independent Analyst

Contact Center Pipeline

Every November since I began writing this column in Contact Center Pipeline in 2011, I’ve written about veterans and veterans’ issues in the customer service profession. As a veteran myself, and a veterans’ advocate, it was something I wanted to do. But for this November issue, I’m doing something different.

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

CSM Magazine

Encoded , a leading Payment Service Provider and pioneer of innovative secure payment solutions for contact centres and e-commerce, has announced that business process outsourcing (BPO) specialist Sigma Connected is using Agent Assisted Payments solution. Calls relate predominantly to general customer service and early arrears enquiries.

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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes it is differentiating, and offers consumers definite benefits – such as practiced by companies like Zappos, Wegmans, Ritz Carlton, Rackspace, Southwest Airlines, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Baptist Health Care, and Zane’s Cycles – and sometimes it is just one of multiple factors which contribute to customer loyalty or disloyalty behavior.

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IntouchCX Acquires Mexico-Based Contact Center Beliveo

24-7 InTouch

IntouchCX and Beliveo are leaders in the customer care industry, focused on pairing the highest customer experience with best-in-class technology. It also demonstrates both companies desire to drive greater depth of expertise and knowledge in the customer experience industry. “We