ShepHyken

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This week we feature an article by Chanice Henry who writes about the importance of cyber security in providing a trustworthy experience for your customers. – Shep Hyken. Customer loyalty is built on trust. Every employee working with customer data needs to consider their treatment of data very carefully.

Customer Experience 259

Customer Experience Government Coaching Customer retention 259

ShepHyken

APRIL 12, 2019

This week we feature an article by Joel Gottesman who shares tips to ensure that seasonal employees provide an excellent customer experience. Many of these employees were tasked with challenging customer-facing positions. However, these employees also present unique challenges to delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Customer Service 271

Customer Service Education Healthcare Customer centricity 271

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2019

As a reader of Shep’s blog, I’ll assume you know you’re in the people business. In fact, you probably spend time trying to inspire people (yourself and team members) to serve and create loyalty-building experiences for other people (customers). How have leaders at Airbnb crafted a 21 st -century customer experience?

Technology 242

Technology Customer Experience Personalization Engineering 242

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Dianna Booher, shares 10 lessons learned from a poor customer service experience. As Dianna says, changing any of these dynamics can help elevate your customer service. You, as customer, will become their main source of information. Shep Hyken.

Customer Service 220

Customer Service Construction Personalization Management 220

Avaya

APRIL 12, 2019

Many Interactive Voice Response systems (IVRs) haven’t caught up to these high expectations. Customers are greeted by outdated touch-tone phone systems, confusing menu options, and clumsy PIN and password authentication. Ask yourself: When customers call your IVR to resolve complex issues, how is the call answered?

Interactive Voice Response 75

Interactive Voice Response Engineering contact center solutions Call Center 75

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 11, 2019

An omnichannel experience – consumers expect it and businesses admit they aren’t great at delivering it, so why aren’t they investing in improving it? The surveys were administered as part of our latest research project, the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark.

Benchmark 48

Benchmark Self service Surveys Contact Center 48

VocalCom

JULY 9, 2018

What do customers really want? As technology changes the ways in which they interact with brands, expectations continue to shift. While many companies are embracing tools such as artificial intelligence to drive better experiences, customers still seek a human touch and the assurance that any technology used is truly for their benefit.

Interactive Voice Response 48

Interactive Voice Response Contact center software Chatbots Self service 48

NICE inContact

JUNE 14, 2017

How often do you actually ask customers how they feel about the service they receive, what their expectations are, or how they would prefer to contact your business? If you’re like most customer service organizations, probably not as much or as often as you’d like. appeared first on inContact Blog.

Self service 58

Self service Interactive Voice Response Surveys Contact Center 58

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.

APIs 254

APIs Enterprise Government Customer Experience 254

Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Customers are spending their money with companies that can save their time and provide accurate information. Yet major Indian companies and organisations are falling short on customer satisfaction. Small companies in India are unable to afford call centres for resolution of customer issues. Accessibility from anywhere.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Government Chatbots Self service 40

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.

Customer Service 209

Customer Service Education Customer Support Management 209

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. Contact centers have to adapt and continuously evolve in order to meet customer expectations. Consumer Behavior, Higher Expectations are Changing the Game.

Contact Center 122

Contact Center Self service Analytics Banking 122

ShepHyken

JUNE 8, 2018

Meet Mor and Yoni, two of the Lightricks support team all-stars. Forced to listen to fake-happy ‘customer care’ puppets reading from scripts? The dissatisfaction you’ll be left with goes both ways: the cost of disappointed customers is high for companies, too. Your customers are moved by honesty. Stay away from scripts.

Customer Support 189

Customer Support Brand ambassadors Scripts Customer Care 189

ShepHyken

JUNE 1, 2018

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills who discusses the importance of integrating an effective customer support system and how to decide upon live chat software for your organization. – Shep Hyken. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” – Bill Gates , Microsoft Founder. Probably not.

Customer Support 257

Customer Support Sales Marketing B2B 257

ShepHyken

APRIL 21, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Dianna Booher, shares ideas for handling tough personalities while offering great customer service. Solving customer problems is expected. The key is to do it in such a way that also restores confidence, even when the customer is difficult.

Airlines 213

Airlines Customer Care Engineering Accountability 213

ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

This week we feature an article by Mike Schoultz who shares his top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer. Check out our thoughts on customer focus. We often get questions and comments on delivering great customer service and experiences. Not my error.

Customer Service 238

Customer Service Scripts Customer Experience Personalization 238

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week we feature an article by Tim Fujita-Yuhas that discusses the importance of empathy when using new technology for customer service. When the topic of customer service comes up, the most common associations aren’t typically positive ones. It’s much more than that, especially in the customer service realm.

Customer Service 210

Customer Service Customer centricity Enterprise Personalization 210

Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Addressing Customer Needs.

Self service 79

Self service Contact Center Chatbots First call resolution 79

Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. Chatbots for Customers (31.0% Back office support. Subject matter experts.

Self service 66

Self service Contact Center Chatbots Average Handle Time 66

Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #1 of 4: The Customer Experience. Customer Perception = Their Reality. How is it evaluated by your customers – do they think it’s good, bad or are they indifferent? Because that approach is not reflective of the customer’s overall experience. What is it?

Interactive Voice Response 80

Interactive Voice Response Chatbots Self service Enterprise 80

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. It is so important for employees to feel that they can make good customer focused decisions in every situation.

Customer Experience 189

Customer Experience Marketing Personalization Management 189

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jeff Dahms, writes about one of the most important parts of the customer relationship, authenticity. Being authentic is required by all of us in order to deliver an Amazing customer experience. You have a program in place to track Voice of the Customer data.

Customer Service 199

Customer Service Scripts Feedback Personalization 199

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.

Contact Center 92

Contact Center Technology Customer centricity Analytics 92

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.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Airlines Government Consulting 0

Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To drive business, attract new clients, and retain existing ones, financial institutions must invest in improving their customer experience. Enhancing your customer experience is important not just because it will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction but because customers also expect it.

Customer Experience 80

Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Self service Chatbots 80

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This week we feature an article by Valeriya Yordanova who writes about how customer support agents can deliver the fast and personal customer support that today’s customers demand. Unfamiliar with the concept of waiting, customers want their problems solved now with minimum effort from their side. Here is how.

Customer Support 177

Customer Support Personalization SaaS Analytics 177

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. The thing is that the physical location is no longer the final destination, but a touch point: customers may come in to browse and then opt to conclude the transaction elsewhere. What does it take?

Sales 198

Sales Employee engagement Technology Customer Experience 198

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Most consumers expect a positive experience and yet companies continuously fail in customer experience 101. Each of these fine organizations, regularly exceeds their guest or member expectations, often in some pretty amazing ways. I left my bags, a dry-cleaned shirt, and suit at the bell stand and then headed to a meeting.

Consulting 124

Consulting Consulting Sales Marketing 124

ShepHyken

AUGUST 18, 2017

This week we feature an article by Martha Brooke who writes about how to execute a customer satisfaction survey that gives you the data you need. The surveys say they want to know about our experiences as a customer , but do they really want to know? It’s probably not how customers think about their experience in a store like Gap.

Surveys 203

Surveys Automotive Advertising Enterprise 203

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.

Customer Service 162

Customer Service Accountability Self service Customer Support 162

Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes. Blog #4 of 4: Key Findings and Where to Focus Your Optimization Efforts . How Best to Engage with Customers and Prospects.

Contact Center 56

Contact Center Analytics Self service Finance 56

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! Customer First” drives success. Customer service has become the top business priority. Today, customer satisfaction is the top business priority, but successful companies cite it as their 1 priority. 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2% AI, Teams UC and Video. .

Contact Center 60

Contact Center Scripts Cloud contact Technology 60

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #3 of 4 With context, AI seeks to improve more quickly than ever. Customer Feedback takes many forms and most are relatively static and easily processed – surveys, feedback forms, polling questions, correlated to the customer’s continuity of purchases. Aggregating.

First call resolution 52

First call resolution Feedback Enterprise Contact Center 52

Eptica

JANUARY 9, 2019

Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Author: Anne-Claire Bellec - Marketing Director Reviewing 2018 – our top 10 blog posts from the year. At the Eptica blog we’ve looked at all of our posts from 2018 and come up with a top 10 of the most popular and topical, based on the number of views, comments and general feedback.

Average Handle Time 89

Average Handle Time Best practices Surveys Chatbots 89

Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 3, 2022

We all speak about expectations, customer expectations. As a customer, I expect a basic minimum such as: The product or service should work as expected. These are the absolute minimums I expect and what a vendor should provide. And customers have other expectations from their service provider.

Advertising 351

Advertising Accountability Customer Experience Customer Service 351

CCNG

APRIL 13, 2021

These organizations are now seeing significant success and growth from Cloud-based services and this growth is expected to continue in the future. First, having one fully integrated solution in place is easier for the customer because it creates a much more consistent experience across channels. The final benefit is cost.

contact center solutions 370

contact center solutions Contact Center CCNG Contact center software 370

ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Customers are getting smarter. That’s why customers have higher expectations from you. Looking at growing customer expectations, 70% of businesses are working towards improving the customer experience as they expect more personalization.”. Their great customer expectations from you.

Self service 157

Self service Feedback Airlines Metrics 157