ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This week we feature an article by Christa Heibel who writes about how important employee feedback is to a successful customer service experience and high CSAT ratings. – Shep Hyken. In my past experience as both a consultant and owner/operator of a BPO, I understand that CSAT surveys tend to get all the attention.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: What is the biggest enemy of good customer service? How can companies get better customer feedback? What should companies look for when hiring customer service employees? What role does empathy play in customer service?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He writes about what specifically makes feedback effective in helping you improve your customer service. Feedback, the one thing that businesses know that they need but dread to receive it at the same time. But at the end of the day, it’s the feedback that makes or breaks a company. Net Promoter Score (NPS).

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 15 Strategies for Effective Customer Service Resolutions by Pratik Salia (Knowmax) Handling customer conflicts well isn’t just about resolving issues—it’s your chance to turn frustrated customers into long-term customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. It’s time to put up or shut up.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

She provides multiple strategies to improve the customer experience in order to gain and retain repeat customers. It’s been said that customer service is dead. We live in such an instant gratification world that customers will often simply seek the next best thing if they don’t get the desired outcome to start.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 11, 2025

A company investing in VoC clearly cares about the customer experiencebut if your survey looks like an afterthought, what message are you really sending? Remember, the survey experience IS part of the customer experience! Customers notice when a survey is slapped together with a generic, low-budget tool.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

He writes about visualizing customer feedback in order to motivate your business to succeed. There are thousands of articles about the importance of customer service to your business’s success. You can read just as many articles about the importance of customer feedback in operating your business successfully.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. Plus, Michelle weighs in on ChatGPT and how it will impact customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Many organizations want a silver-bullet solution for Customer Experience , one quick thing they can do that will fix everything. However, there isn’t one for Customer Experience. It takes constant attention and small, deliberate changes to improve Customer Experience.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 6, 2025

The shorter your survey, the better your response rates will typically be. For that reason, super-short surveys are increasingly popular, often consisting of just one or two questions: the likelihood that the customer will recommend your company (NPS) and an open-ended "why?" But there's no free lunchand heres the catch.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Theres been plenty of talk about the death of surveys, but lets be clearsurveys are far from dead! I am sure many of you can appreciate this given the number of surveys you probably receive on a weekly or even daily basis. Surveys are evolving into smarter, more dynamic tools for capturing customer feedback.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2025

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How can companies leverage artificial intelligence to improve customer experience? What challenges do businesses face in becoming truly customer-centric? How can customer feedback effectively enhance products and services?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 19, 2019

This week we feature an article by Georgina Nelson who explains her approach to collecting customer feedback that will help you provide a better customer experience. One of the biggest misconceptions about collecting customer feedback is the idea that asking more questions provides more of the insights you’re looking for.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 15, 2021

H e shares different strategies to help your business monitor and measure customer satisfaction. Customer experience is crucial for businesses looking to retain existing customers and attract new ones. If they’re not, there could well be an experience-related reason for this.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly. To thread this needle, we’ve identified four key areas that, since being addressed, have led to elevated customer experiences: . Happy Enabled Employees = Happy Customers. Voice of Customer.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

To what extent will a company go to try to get customer feedback ? Is it an incentive to fill out a survey? At the end of a project with a customer, she sends an email requesting the customer take a short survey. So, what constitutes a bribe to get feedback? You want feedback.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 27, 2021

He writes about how customer experience can determine the lifeline of a business. It is the volume of customers that makes the difference to a considerable extent. Hence, customer satisfaction has become a very important factor for the sustainability of a business. Customer experience leads to customer satisfaction .

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’m all for getting customer feedback. Ask customers on the way out of a store, call them on a phone or send follow-up surveys via email. I wrote about surveys a few years ago. The gist of that article was about getting more customers to fill out those surveys. Don’t wait two weeks to send the survey.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Top Takeaways Companies can improve their service and product offerings by listening to customers. Engaging customers through surveys and advisory boards (made up of customers) allows companies to understand their customers needs and generate new ideas. Customer surveys should be a two-way communication.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Due to this, competition is fierce as many SaaS companies are highly vulnerable to churn if they are not satisfying their customer base.? . In a Hubspot survey, 40% of salespeople said getting a response from prospects was more difficult than 2 years ago. . In-depth client understanding.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Why does a company send out a customer satisfaction survey? Generally, it is to find out if they did a good job or what they can do to make the experience better. In the weekly Super Amazing Show I do with Brittany Hodak, we talked about surveys. And in general, short surveys get higher response rates.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I checked my email the next morning, there was a survey from the hospital. This absurd question made me aware of how many surveys I actually receive. But they keep coming, despite the fact that social media offers much better tools for learning what customers are thinking. Survey Overload.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2019

This week we feature an article by Charles Richard who shares an article about how important it is for software development companies to have a successful customer experience strategy. We all crave for “more”- entrepreneurs expect more from their employees whereas your coworkers as well customers may expect more from you.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customers want their concerns resolved swiftly, without having to wait in line or being handed from one executive to another. . A good customer experience (CX) begins with a 24-hours seamless website user experience, followed by top-notch customer care, and concludes with the receiving of the product/service purchased from you. .

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CCNG

JUNE 5, 2024

I am thrilled that the vast majority of organizations have started to realize that it is important to get feedback from their customers. In this article, I would like to discuss some of the common mistakes made in conducting customer surveys and then lay out how a complete customer feedback program should be organized.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2018

This week we feature an article by Anand Srinivasan who looks at a few ways a business can keep tabs on the customer experience through continuous testing. – Shep Hyken. The objective of this process is to reduce the time it takes for developers to gather user feedback data and use it to tweak the product.

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Interaction Metrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Finding the right customer satisfaction survey company can make or break your ability to measure customer satisfaction and gain actionable insights. The best firms do more than simply collect customer feedbackthey help you interpret data, identify pain points, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Optimize Your Feedback Loop. Collecting, Responding and Reacting to Customer Feedback. They discuss strategies for collecting customer reviews and feedback and what to do with it after you collect it. Top Takeaways: First you have to get customer feedback. Next you must respond to it.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How To Make Your Customer Strategy Fun by Chip Bell (Forbes) Is your organization about fun? How often do your customers giggle? If you want customers to return, give them a good experience they can rely on and trust.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What is a feedback survey? Is it simply a strategy used to gauge customer satisfaction, or is it a means of actively involving and engaging your customers? A feedback survey is a great way to get valuable information about your customers’ preferences while keeping them engaged with your brand.

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CCNG

AUGUST 16, 2023

Seeking the voice of the customer is an admirable objective. The voice of the customer is frequently identified as a requirement in establishing your customer experience strategy, improving processes, introducing new products, identifying the need for new services, and staying in tune with the ongoing changes in your marketplace.

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VirtualPBX

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What Are Automated Phone Surveys? Automated phone surveys are a common tool businesses use to collect feedback from customers. They are affordable, quick to implement, and provide a direct line to customers. These surveys give businesses real-time insights into the quality of their service and customer experience.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

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