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Myra Golden Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Whether it was recently or too long ago, prepare yourself because this is for you: National Customer Service Week! I know customer service pros are the bee’s knees, so I’m thrilled to be the returning keynote speaker of National Customer Service Week!
Inside Customer Service
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The conversation reminded me how important it is to show appreciation and support to customer service professionals who are working hard to serve us. I talk to a lot of customer service professionals like Lauren. Many feel beat up by angry and unreasonable customers.
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Customer Service Life
OCTOBER 13, 2020
The other day I was reviewing emails sent to our customers to make sure they were doing all of the following behaviors (Coincidentally, these are the behaviors on our quality form): Making a human connection. Reviewing the customer’s history and notes. Empowering the customer.
Contact Center Pipeline
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Customer service operations in the hardest-hit industries are still struggling to perform at the most basic level. Customers have taken to social media and have even reached out to the media to share accounts of their time-consuming efforts spent […].
Nobelbiz Guide: 7 KPIs For Excellent Customer Service
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Day 3 of Customer Service Week was fun! I shared ten super-energizers that are fantastic for Customer Service Week and beyond! Customer Experience DesignOh, wow! If you missed the live event, no worries. We’ve got you covered with the replay below.
GetFeedback
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
How to provide the best customer service and support during this unprecedented holiday season. Guides
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Always thinking about how everything in life ties to customer service, I wondered, “What is a good recipe for customer service?” Leadership defines the customer service and CX vision for everyone to follow.
Customer Service Life
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe – If you were going to hire a character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to spearhead the customer experience effort in your organization, who would it be? Beyond “buy 10 get one free”: What is customer loyalty? Happy (belated) New Year!
Speaker: Vicki Brackett, Author and COO of Sinousia
Author of the new book The Leadership Toolbox and Chief Operating Officer of Sinousia, Vicki Brackett shares creative and proven ways to engage your employees in either work at home environment or traditional brick and mortar. These strategies have been vetted by thousands of employees and have a track record of making immediate impact to customer service satisfaction scores, sales conversion, absenteeism and employee retention. When it comes to employee performance, you must be proactive on the front-end, or you are forced to be reactive on the back end!
ShepHyken
AUGUST 5, 2020
What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? This is similar to an exercise that we do in our customer service workshops.
Customer Service Life
DECEMBER 6, 2021
As a customer service leader, there’s a certain balance I’ve struggled to find. Spending too much time interacting with customers can leave me feeling like our team is treading water and not making progress on key initiatives.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 20, 2021
So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.
Myra Golden Media
JUNE 29, 2021
Mark your Calendars for October 4 – 8, 2021, because we’re celebrating National Customer Service Week! This year’s theme is, Celebrating the Heart of Service. Customer Experience Design
Speaker: Cognigy and CCT
Adding chatbots and voice bots are great first steps contact centers are taking to automate customer service. But what about other digital channels? Customers of 2022 are more likely to expect brands to communicate with them on their channel of choice. Join this live discussion with two contact center solution experts on how to enable live agents to work across all digital channels and deliver a professional multi-experience across all touch points.
Myra Golden Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Are you still trying to figure out how to celebrate Customer Service Week? After the year and a half your team has pulled your company through, don’t let National Customer Service Week pass without an epic celebration of your front line! Customer Experience Design
ShepHyken
JANUARY 31, 2018
I’ve written about the customer service gap before. The second version of the gap focused on narrowing the distance between you and your customers. The closer you are to your customers, and the more you are meeting their needs, the narrower the gap is between you and your customer. This also puts your competition further away from your customers. In a truly customer-focused organization, you might even see the gap reversed.
Inside Customer Service
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Customer service is hard. For example, my vision is "Your Service Culture Guide."
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how to get customers to pay more. The focus, of course, was on customer service and experience. Research has irrefutably proven that customers will pay more for a better experience.
Speaker: Richard Kenny, Sr Marketing Manager - Contact Center, Poly; Roger Lee, VP Customer Success, Gridspace; and Ron Owens, SVP Operations, Avtex
Join CCNG's Fireside Chat for an interactive and energetic discussion as CCNG members share insights and predictions for 2021. Industry experts from Avtex, Poly, and Gridspace will share what they have learned in 2020 to help us prepare for 2021. Each participant will provide recommendations on how to address people, process, technology, and strategy as we continue to serve the needs of our employees and customers in an ever-changing customer service business environment. You will walk away with a revised vision for 2021 and actionable steps to take to better provide for your employees and customers alike.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
And of course, one of my favorite “holidays” is National Customer Service Week , which happens the first full week of October each year. Traditionally, Customer Service Week has been the time to highlight and celebrate the great work employees do to take care of their customers.
Inside Customer Service
APRIL 21, 2022
Someone who had never spoken to a customer. Why are customer service scripts a bad idea? That's the feeling customers get when they like and trust you. Customer: "Hi, my name is Alicia. Agent (sticking with the script): "May I please have your customer id number?"
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 23, 2020
You call the customer service hotline. A pleasant customer support agent picks up the phone and enthusiastically greets you, ready to help resolve your problem or answer your question. The friendly voice comes on after you, the customer, may have already spent 30 minutes holding.
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Along those lines, I want you to come up with a customer service promise. For some companies, their tagline is their customer service promise. For example, Zappos.com ’s tagline is Powered by Service. Three words that exhibit a commitment to the customer. And, that love they show their clients is in the form of delivering amazing customer service, keeping promises to customers and more.
Speaker: Noel Roberts, CTO and VP of Marketing, Aria Solutions
Join CCNG member Noel Roberts of Aria as he discusses how to leverage chatbots to deliver excellent customer service that improves the customer experience and drives ROI. We’ll look at some of the challenges facing organizations, including common pitfalls, and will recommend ways to avoid them.
Inside Customer Service
JUNE 16, 2022
The vice president was talking about his company's customer service team. His primary concern was customer retention. He worried that employees were too transactional and didn't work hard enough to retain customers. Customer service reps didn't always see the big picture.
TechSee
OCTOBER 9, 2018
This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. Key preferences to consider in Millennial generation customer service: Text me, I don’t like to talk: Millennials prefer to communicate over text messaging and rarely make phone calls. They demand highly convenient and fast service. Self-service platforms. Know your customer.
Inside Customer Service
MARCH 10, 2022
Tyler clearly possessed a customer service superpower: the ability to identify my unspoken service cues. What are service cues? Service cues are unspoken customer needs. They're often very subtle, but they can be the keys to a customer's heart.
Contact Center Geek
OCTOBER 4, 2022
I know it’s not quite the winter holiday season, but yesterday kicked off Customer Service Appreciation Week and that’s pretty wonderful, too! I am thankful every day for the people that choose to work with us to support our customers. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Speaker: Chris Bauserman, VP Segment and Product Marketing, NICE inContact
Building a best-in-class customer service team and customer-centric organization is a marathon, not a sprint. Join CCNG and Chris Bauserman, VP Segment and Product Marketing for NICE inContact, for a discussion and set of tools that you can use to benchmark your operations and identify the next best action your organization can take to build your CX of the future.
Steve DiGioia
MAY 2, 2022
So, what can pro wrestling teach us about customer service? The Keys to Great Customer Service. We are all well aware that great customer service can only be achieved by: Anticipating the customer’s needs. Focusing on the customer’s safety.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 1, 2021
Sh e provides tips and examples of how to improve the customer experience with automated support emails. Email automation is a way to keep your customers happy. With automation, you improve the quality of communication and keep customers updated in a timely manner.
ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
She shares a 3-step guide on how to improve the employee experience while maximizing customer engagement. Where would a business be without a customer service team? There’s no denying that without an effective customer service team , a business would fall apart.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Customer Service compassion interpersonal skillsIt was a lazy Sunday afternoon and while channel surfing, I ran across a marathon of The Golden Girls. A GREAT tv show! On this episode Dorothy has been sick, tired and feels something is just not right.
Speaker: Rana Gujral, CEO at Behavioral Signals
Automation can enhance productivity, management of volume, and leave agents with more energy to focus on meeting customers where they are. But how, exactly? Join Rana Gujral, CEO at Behavioral Signals, to learn the best ways to apply automation most efficiently.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
National Customer Service Week is coming up the first week in October. This is a time to appreciate employees for doing a great job taking care of customers. And, of course, there is showing some love and appreciation to your customers. What makes good customer service?” While all that – and more – can create good customer service, there is an even bigger answer. We cannot determine if we give good customer service.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Throughout it all, frontline customer service staff across industries have stepped up to help companies and brands maintain a positive, reassuring presence for their customers. This has been a grueling year—a marathon of fear, uncertainty and constant course-corrections.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 7, 2020
In our second post on Customer Service Week 2020, Sitel Group’s Olivier Camino and Sweetwater’s Jeff Ostermann provide insights into their companies’ employee experience cultures and highlight CSW activities to engage and support their teams.
AnomalySquared
JUNE 15, 2022
Customer service experience is the customer's view of how a company treats them. It is what builds the thoughts and feelings a customer has towards a company, and drives behavior and loyalty. Improve your customer service through outsourcing.
Advertiser: Interactions LLC
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