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? We experience these at the L.L.

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Scripts Employee engagement Customer Service Customer Experience 231

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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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

In the contact center industry, for example, there are fewer phone conversations going into customer support centers than in the past. That’s what we all fear. Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM. Their roles have evolved, with the human performing critical value-added functions and machines handling rote tasks.

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Contact Center Self service Banking Airlines 281

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 319

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. Clarity will help your team minimize confusion and assist customers fast and more successfully. Hugh Beaulac, ? MC2 Bid4Papers ?. improve team cohesion ?.

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Personalization Customer Service Marketing Sales 221

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. Positivity.

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Customer Service Education Customer Support Management 209

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. Employee Experience.

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Journey mapping Customer centricity Analytics Government 307

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. Now, you might be thinking, “But I’m the boss!

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Feedback Management Customer Service Customer Experience 182

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 was talking to someone.

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Scripts Consulting Consulting Personalization 195

ShepHyken

MARCH 2, 2018

In fact, Accenture found that when made to feel welcome in stores and treated right, Millennials can be extremely loyal customers. But a memorable and distinctive experience is not something that only young people seek. And all of this is absolutely correct, but the picture is far more nuanced. Now let’s spend a minute on Millennials.

Sales 198

Sales Employee engagement Technology Customer Experience 198

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.

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Consulting Consulting Call Center Metrics 383

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.

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Customer emotions Consulting Consulting Call Center 390

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. Lush’s approach is a great way to build customer trust through authenticity and empathy.

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Customer Experience Accountability Customer Service Customer Care 169

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

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Customers are not loyal because of the Customer Experience you provide. They are loyal because of the Customer Experience they remember you provided. Furthermore, customers don’t remember the entire experience but only bits and pieces. The human memory isn’t as reliable as we would like to think.

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Consulting Consulting Customer Experience Marketing 419

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. Sure, it happens, I thought.

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Airlines Calibration Self service Consulting 365

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 91

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

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 183

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 93

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. The average entrepreneur will tell you that empathy is important. But is empathy even prevalent?

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Sales Morale Personalization Scripts 158

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

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 162

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. The Pressure is On. Self-Service Helps Agents Too.

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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. Then we’ll analyze how your organization can respond to these changes and the ways in which technology can benefit your ability to serve customers.

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Customer Service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response outsourcing 52

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. Most people agree that customer emotions are essential to an experience. Both are negative emotions.

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Customer emotions Call Center Customer Experience Customer Support 221

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 Education Engineering Management 195

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 15, 2023

People cut back on what they perceive as the ‘nice to haves’ like training and conferences, and many businesses would include Improvement in their customer experience on this list. How confident are you to deliver an excellent Customer experience (CX) in 2023 as we enter these turbulent times? Which are you?

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Customer Experience Self service Feedback Management 195

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued.

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Journey mapping B2B Customer emotions Personalization 300

Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Great service is comprised of many parts and each must be present to create the experience every customer desires. We all know that without proper training, few employees are prepared to serve their customers in any meaningful way. We must “care” for those we serve, even if it’s only for the time the customer is in front of us.

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Best practices Management Customer Service 231

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. Map your customers’ “fishing nets.”

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Management Entertainment Consulting Consulting 472

24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The integration of technology in health tech is changing the way medical professionals deliver care and reshaping the overall patient experience. Generative AI to Shape the Future of Patient Care A positive patient experience encompasses the entire journey, from booking an appointment to post-treatment follow-ups.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Consulting Consulting Technology 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. Bonus: It makes your agents’ jobs more interesting , too.

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Contact Center Call Center Abandon Call Construction 67

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

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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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

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I f ChurnZero were to release a greatest hits compilation of our top content, milestones, and life events in 2019, this blog post would be it. With over 70+ published blogs this year, we whittled down our list to the ten most popular posts from the ChurnZero team and friends. . Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019 .

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