Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2016

Be careful about policies you issue that are focused on the organization and not on the Customer. Uzbekistan Airways decided to weigh customers before boarding their flights for “safety reasons.” 8: Losing Customers’ Trust is the Worst Penalty VW Will Face. 5: Amazon’s Destructive Culture Exposed—or Not?

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Consulting Consulting Customer Experience Personalization 268

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Surely customer support could help me sort this out. It was incredibly distressing to encounter a customer service representative who clearly couldn’t care less if I ever left my house again. Give inconsistent or incorrect answers to customers. 10) shut down customer support channels for cost rather than customer choice.

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Customer centricity Airlines Feedback Construction 316

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant … Continue reading → The post 6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture appeared first on Brad Cleveland. I recall a new restaurant with great food and impeccable service that quickly built a following.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 25, 2017

This week we feature an article by Reuben Yonatan who writes about how using chatbots for customer service properly can be a powerful customer service tool. Chatbots can be great for handling basic customer support functions, communicating with customers when a rep isn’t available and more. – Shep Hyken.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Shep Hyken.

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Nicereply

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A roundup of the best customer service articles from 2022—to help you learn something new, revisit long-standing topics, or simply enjoy. Achieving stellar customer support is a moving target, involving a mix of strategy, processes, policies, analytics, and even a little art. 2022’s top customer service blogs.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2018

New Direct-to-Consumer companies are flourishing by focusing on building strong relationships with their customers that they own directly, bolstered by better experiences. Amazon customers are spoiled by choice, but they are also overwhelmed by it. Eliminate Choice. Succeed With Experience.

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industry standards Personalization Engineering Consulting 207

ShepHyken

AUGUST 4, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jeff Dahms, write about the importance of using customer data properly and aligning it with the internal culture of an organization. It appeals to the logical, pattern-oriented left brain, involved in making decisions that shape the customer experience.

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Analytics Employee engagement Morale Surveys 202

ShepHyken

MARCH 2, 2018

I recently came across an article where the author very aptly noted that “retail moves at the speed of culture.” And culture nowadays is dominated by those born between 1980 and 2000. In fact, Accenture found that when made to feel welcome in stores and treated right, Millennials can be extremely loyal customers.

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Sales Employee engagement Technology Customer Experience 198

Vonage

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Culture is reflected in how people behave. It is a given if you want to change your culture, you must change behaviors. Leadership has to be focused on the strategies that will have a lasting impact on the customer-focused culture. Customers expect the person or whatever channel they prefer to be responsive.

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Feedback Technology Personalization Management 69

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

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APIs Enterprise Government Customer Experience 254

ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Brooke Cade writes about how important communicating with your employees and listening to their insight is for improving company culture. Feedback from customers and opinions of management can all be skewed due to a limited perspective.

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Brand ambassadors Construction Morale Feedback 215

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. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. Where does the customer get put on your agenda? Is it in there at all?

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Customer centricity Airlines Consulting Consulting 427

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.

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Best practices Customer Service SaaS Education 204

JivoChat

AUGUST 22, 2023

Learning how to start a travel blog will help you share your passion for visiting different places and getting to know cultures from other countries all around the world. Step by Step How to Start a Travel Blog How to start a travel blog is simpler than you might believe. Will you make videos for your blog too?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? The first one was, “We put customers first.”. We had six values.

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ShepHyken

MAY 4, 2018

This week we feature an article by Meyer Baron who writes about the essential stages of a winning customer experience. Smart companies promise a positive customer service experience, and they deliver. – Shep Hyken. Customer experience” means different things to different people. Improved customer service training.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, George Aveling, shares an experience he had demonstrating unconscious bias during the customer experience. So, what has this got to do with the wider world of the customer experience? Unconscious bias in customer service can cost companies money. Shep Hyken.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 26, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Doug Sandler, busts some popular customer service myths. MYTH – Great customer service starts with understanding the customer is always right. Unfortunately, the customer may always think he is right, but in reality, that just isn’t the case.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 22, 2019

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Doug Bell who writes about how leaders can optimize their company’s customer experience. It is important to have a plan in place for managing the customer experience and having a customer-focused culture. – Shep Hyken. A Simple Playbook for Managing Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

What we know from early research on employee engagement is that if you have happy employees, chances are you’re going to have satisfied customers. My new ebook, Happy Employees Make Happy Customers , explores this concept in great detail. So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

Contact Center 26

Contact Center Call Center Customer Service 26

CCNG

MARCH 8, 2023

As soon as an agent starts “just going through the motions” rather than engaging with customers, interaction quality plummets—and so do customer satisfaction scores. In this blog post, we're discussing how to recognize warning signs and prevent contact center agent apathy before it affects performance metrics (and profits!).

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Morale Contact Center CCNG Agent burnout 195

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, Lorraine and I have checked to see if we had any accounts opened with the bank without our consent. Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, we don’t trust them because they lied. Fixing a Broken Culture. As an outside culture expert, I say, ‘Good move’.

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ShepHyken

JULY 5, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Experience Hotel Blog) The Experience Hotel team decided to conduct a survey on the impact of the different types of emails you can send to your customers. My Comment: Do your customers open your emails to them?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 9, 2018

On our Intuitive Customer podcast , Professor Ryan Hamilton and I have been talking about the ways that customers are irrational in their decision making, often focusing on things that seem irrelevant. And this is true across ages and cultures. Don’t Mess With Masculinity. Let me give you a real-life example.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 26, 2023

We have studied ways to best serve our customers ad nauseam. We use numerous metrics to gauge customer sentiments. We sit through seminar after seminar to learn the latest tactics to enhance the customer experience and spend thousands of dollars on certification courses signaling to our peers our “expertise”.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Customer Service Airlines Best practices Consulting 287

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 4, 2015

Quality sales cultures are the ones where the Customer comes before the close, like Mackay’s quote indicates here. Ricoh Canada has a real world example of making this kind of change to their sales driven culture and making it work. Not all mind you, but enough that I knew it wasn’t a culture where I wanted to hang about.

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Sales Customer centricity Customer Experience Accountability 398

ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. America’s Best Customer Service Companies by Newsweek. Newsweek) Newsweek has again partnered with respected global data research firm Statista to identify the stores that consistently provide the Best Customer Service 2021.

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Customer Service Government Customer Experience Marketing 352

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.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

She writes about using email marketing to improve customer service and experience throughout the entire customer journey. With the variety of online products and services, customer expectations are constantly growing. And this doesn´t just impact initial interactions but contributes to customer retention, too.

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Marketing Customer Experience Entertainment Customer centricity 146

Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

Customer Service 20

Customer Service Contact Center Call Center 20

Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

Customer Service 20

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. The majority of a Senior Manager’s time is spent in meetings, not with Customers.

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