ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pradeep Rathinam who writes about how we must understand what the large population of millennials expect when it comes to customer service. – Shep Hyken. Notably, millennials like to do things a little differently from the generations of yore. Then there’s the whole Veruca Salt syndrome.

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ShepHyken

MAY 25, 2018

This week we feature an article by Matt Nolan who shares five keys to building more compelling, sustainable customer relationships. Customer retention used to be considered just a “service problem.” Service has become an always-on, everywhere requirement – in the customer’s eyes, great experiences have to be connected and fluid.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We hosted the Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal Alex Mead ( alexmead@sky.com ) recently to talk about it, and I wanted to share what we discussed here with all of you, too. One thing I appreciate about Mead is how his opinions make me think. He predicts that customers can ask, “Hey!

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I am surprised daily about how many organizations can’t articulate how their improvement in various experience measures, like Net Promoter Score® , will benefit the organization. This connection is essential to understand to create a winning customer strategy. . The same is true for customer data.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since my request, we were lucky enough to have a new one from Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of Customer Smarts , based in Sydney, Australia, and podcast host of “Customer Smart.” Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2020

We encourage clients to research their customers all the time. Late last year, we decided to take our advice and study our customers and prospective customers, and well, anyone. ROI is one of the areas the organizations are struggling with regarding their investment in Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? They have neglected to focus on return on investment for the initiatives they have implemented. .

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ShepHyken

APRIL 26, 2019

This week we feature an article by Chanice Henry who writes about the importance of listening and understanding your customers in order to give them the experience they want. Wish to inspire a step-change in how customers interact with your brand digitally ?

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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. This strategy is ideal for getting an improvement program off the ground. After all, no one can address everything at once.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Author, speaker, consultant, and The Agile Brand podcast host Greg Kihlstrom , ( www.gregkihlstrom.com ) Principal Chief Strategies for GK5A, joined us on a recent podcast to discuss what it takes to be prepared to implement AI and improve your customer experience. These predictions will ostensibly come from AI.

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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.”.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s time for an update. The idea is to get people thinking about things they had never considered before and help them reframe their experience through the lens of the customer rather than operations. #1 1 : What is the Experience You Are Trying to Deliver? 2 : How Customer-Centric is Your Organization?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 3, 2023

He appealed to me on a recent podcast to help him refine and focus his advice. So, without further ado, here are my insights gained from a decades-long career: Watch Colin talking about this on YouTube: Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to see all the latest videos! However, flexibility is essential.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2020

Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. We discussed this concept on a recent podcast with guest Zoey Chen, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business. Customer loyalty is a function of memory.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently.

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JivoChat

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Do you know how to create a blog on WordPress? With just a few steps, you can have your own blog up and running. The platform is simple to use and allows you to create a website for free, which gives you the opportunity to develop customized web pages and publish the content you wish. . Make a Plan For Your Blog.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We all can feel it looming in one way or another. Recessions are also a time of change. When times are good, companies can get away with complacency. However, when times get tough, that won’t work anymore. The companies that are healthy survive, and the weak ones don’t. Inflation is terrible, too.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It is essential to reflect where we have been and where we want to go at this time of year. With that in mind, I have some predictions for the trends in Customer Experience for 2020 and beyond. . I discussed these predictions on a recent podcast. Customer Experience has matured.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 2, 2020

Some people watch things happen, some make things happen, and some say, “what happened?” ” Some organizations out there concerning the pandemic (and maybe other things, too) are falling into that third category. In this issue, we will discuss how to avoid being one of them.

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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. Emotions create memories.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We discussed what growth is to organizations and how to approach getting it in today’s marketplace on a recent podcast [TL1]. We also discussed how your Customer Experience plays into the mix to help you facilitate customer-driven growth. . Focus on Unmet Needs to Improve Business Growth.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2023

What do you get when you put three old guys in front of microphones and ask them to talk about one of their favorite subjects? An authoritative view on just about anything. However, with three pioneers of Customer Experience involved, we have an authoritative view on the topic and predictions about what’s happening next.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Negative Employee Experiences Can Translate Into Poor Customer Service, Report Says by Emilie Shumway. (HR How to Build Customer Loyalty with a Thank You Page by Thomas Griffin. Consider the opening stats.

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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. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback last year, so we’re back with another edition – this time even bigger and better!

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 14, 2022

I read a fascinating report the other day from Zendesk called The Customer Experience (CX) Trends Report 2022. I saw a dichotomy between what people are saying and what they are doing regarding Customer Experiences (CX). So, I reached out to Zendesk to get their take on the report and invite them onto our podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2020

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today. We discussed the profitability of lousy customer service on a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 22, 2023

Our recent guest on the podcast, author Vanessa Patrick , Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Marketing, and researcher in the Consumer Behavior Marketing field, has a new book, “The Power of Saying No: The New Science of How to Say No that Puts You in Charge of Your Life.” Plus, gender is part of it.

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ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Mike Schoultz shares a few customer experience stories that demonstrate how companies have handled customer experiences, some well and some not so well. Are customer experience stories growing in your companies’ marketing?

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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? No one wants that. What we do want is to know how to facilitate customer-driven growth. Apple gets those all the time for free.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 27, 2019

Think about the last time you shopped online but decided not to buy. Were you just browsing, or was there something about the user experience that made you hesitate? This is not unusual—our research shows that more than 50 percent of a customer’s experience is based on emotions.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 14, 2020

However, they are also crucial for fostering customer-driven growth in your organization. In this issue of Why Customers Buy, we are going to discuss the six fundamental principles of how to influence people, and you might be surprised by what you discover. Today, Ahearn is one of his 20 certified trainers around the world.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Customer strategy results in some interesting questions. Recently, Claire Hillman, a listener (and viewer of our new YouTube channel ) asked us one she has been mulling in her strategic planning: Should I move to where my customers are or move them to where I want to be? Consider the time before the iPhone.

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Comm100

JUNE 15, 2022

If you want your brand to stand head and shoulders above the competition, developing an unbeatable customer experience is essential. However, consistently achieving customer satisfaction across all aspects of your business is a considerable challenge. What is a customer experience (CX) program?

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