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How to Achieve an Effective Customer Care Plan

Helpware

The benefits of a well-structured customer care plan are essential as they assist in retaining customers and creating loyal brand ambassadors, both of which are essential to the long-term success of your business. The survival rate of small businesses is approximately 50% at the five-year mark.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 6, 2017

ShepHyken

This article has eleven “data drive” reasons customer advocacy is important and seven tips on how to increase advocacy. How to Build Trust with Internal Customers by Elaine Fogel. My Comment: My friend and colleague Jay Baer, author of Hug Your Haters, is an expert on social media and customer service.

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Guest Blog: Exceptional Customer Support Is Fresh, Not Canned

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Daphne Kasriel-Alexander who tells us how to create mega-fans who can then become your biggest advocates. – Shep Hyken. Forced to listen to fake-happy ‘customer care’ puppets reading from scripts? User lover blossomed: Moving from fans to brand ambassadors.

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How to align your brand promise with your front-line customer service agents

Liveops

When we dug into this important aspect of customer service, we found five critical elements—and the ways that traditional call centers sometimes undermine the brand promise. Review these to see if your front-line phone agents are supporting or detracting from your brand. Call takers are brand ambassadors.

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Turning Agents From a Contact Center Expense Into a Revenue-Generating Advantage

Vistio

So how do you make sure your customer experience hits the mark? In many ways, agents serve as your brand ambassadors, often acting as the first, primary, or only point of human contact customers have with your company. More satisfied customers. Those that can’t deliver lose out to competitors who can.

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Great CX Starts with Your Agents: 4 Ways Agent Experience Impacts Customer Experience

Vistio

And they’ll reward companies that fulfill that with customer loyalty.” . Relaxed agents hear what customers aren’t saying. In many ways, agents serve as your brand ambassadors, often acting as customers’ first, primary, or only point of human contact with your company. And both customer and agent loyalty increase.

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Creating Brand Distinction, Optimizing CX with Channel Management

HGS

The most iconic brands in the world are unparalleled due to unswerving and perpetual use of their distinctive brand features over many years. And this leads to deep brand penetration and retention in customers’ minds. As such, brand growth is born out of a commitment to these features. New Channel Proliferation.