ShepHyken

JUNE 5, 2020

She shares how businesses can utilize consumer insights to help improve customer service and experience. Consumer insights are key to understanding customer experience that enables marketers to direct and plan their product and marketing mix. Today’s modern tech-savvy customers are expressing their customer experience in the form of product reviews, star ratings, consumer forums, social media, call recordings, comments on the website, and chat transcripts.

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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.

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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? As she moved into this role, she realized the opportunities that would come from providing a better customer experience. While this question was general, it focused on what was getting in the way of success for both the employees and their customers.

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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.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 8, 2018

Some people are just naturally good at providing great customer service. I realized that there was a point in my life that I could look back and say, “That’s when I knew I was passionate about taking care of customers.” That was my “Customer Service DNA.”.

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Callminer

JULY 30, 2020

No company wants to receive complaints about bad customer service, but even companies that strive to create exceptional customer service will occasionally disappoint a customer. Still, responding to complaints about bad customer service can be difficult, even for your best call center agents. Keep reading to learn what our panel had to say about the best ways for call center reps to address complaints about bad customer service.

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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.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Companies now know that customer experience is the key competitive differentiator. Their customers are more likely to make repeat purchases, to try additional products or services, and to recommend the brand to family and friends. Computer Vision-powered self-service.

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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.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2020

Many companies have a great focus on providing an excellent or, as I like to call it, amazing customer service experience. They do customer service training during the onboarding process. Customer service training doesn’t have to be so formal. The repetition of the message—which can be as simple as customer service is important —is the key to sustain the power of their initial training.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 8, 2017

Customer service is what I’m all about. It is my life’s mission to help companies create a customer service experience that customers think is amazing. But, surely some company that is totally focused on their customers would already own it. Well, it was expensive, at least by my standards… unless I wanted to have an asset that would brand me to customer service forever. These are the brands known for amazing service.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This week is National Customer Service Week. Happy Customer Service Week! It became a book, officially titled, Be Amazing or Go Home: Seven Customer Service Habits that Create Confidence with Everyone. Delivering good customer service is a habit. You practice it day after day on real customers. You may even get special customer service training.

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Callminer

APRIL 30, 2020

Given the often-hectic nature of call-based customer support, it is not at all uncommon for conflicts to arise with confused or otherwise frustrated customers. The most successful companies have solutions in place for monitoring customer interactions and analyzing customer sentiment. For more information on improving the customer experience, download our white paper, Leveraging Emotion to Improve CX & Elevate Contact Center Performance.

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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!

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Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 21, 2020

Every person with purchasing power can be turned into a loyal customer, but it needs to start with the customer experience. An all-too-frequent scenario happens when a customer urgently orders an item from a retailer’s website and only receives an email confirmation but no shipping information as to when their order will arrive.

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2020

Call me boring, but I want the same thing every time—at least when it comes to customer experience. We want our customers to always have a good experience with us—one they can count on always happening every time they do business with us. If, for some reason, there is a problem, we want our customers to know they can always count on us to resolve it for them. It is, but this is good monotony—the kind of monotony our customers like.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2017

Every week, I’m asked, “What is changing in customer service?” The expected answer is that I’ll talk about all the new ways customer service and support is conducted – and I do. There’s self-service solutions that include robust frequently asked questions and video. There’s social media customer service with multiple channels like Facebook and Twitter. If you look at what customer service is, it is the same as it was fifty years ago.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 9, 2019

Some people claim that customer service is getting worse. Customers are getting smarter and expecting more. The customer service “bar” is raised by great companies who teach us what good customer service should be. And, when there is a customer service “horror story,” it seems to stand out much more than when everything is right and works the way it’s supposed to. The post No Toilet Paper – Is Customer Service Getting Worse?

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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.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s almost a given that every company has some form of a customer service department. Even the smallest companies – with just one solo entrepreneur – will act as if they have a customer service department. Why do people reach out to the customer service department? So, understanding that, why would a company choose to deliver an amazing customer service experience to just some of their customers and not to every customer?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 24, 2020

This week we feature an article by Paul Selby, a product marketing director for ServiceNow Customer Service Management. He shares tips and examples of how both companies and customers can adapt during a worldwide crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. An open letter to companies—and customers—on how to navigate the challenges of these extraordinary times. customers and? That includes how we interact in the realm of customer service.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2020

She shares tips and tricks on how to create a Disney-like customer service experience. Delivering excellent customer service is an art. This era belongs to creating valuable and stellar experiences for the customers. And good customer service is defined as taking that extra step for the customers without being asked. In this increasingly competitive global economy, Disney has emerged as a leader in creating lifetime customer relationships.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Context and customer service. This got me thinking about context in a customer service setting. For an all-too-common example, there are few things worse than contacting customer service and being forced to start from the beginning — rehashing a previous conversation.

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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.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 12 Ways to Celebrate Customer Service Week by Vanessa Brangwyn. Achievers) vAbove all, Customer Service Week is an opportunity to stop and think about the interconnected well-being of all the people who make up your business: the ones who use your product or service and the ones who serve your customers and help make your organization run seamlessly.

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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. or “Please rate your service on a scale from 1 to 5.”.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 1, 2020

We were a self-service station, so our role was that of cashier more than anything else. He said, “Son, this is a self-service gas station. First, we all have two responsibilities: do the job we were hired to do and also take care of the customer. I may have been a cashier, but I also knew that my job, beyond collecting money, was to take care of my customers. Second, a boss can kill the customer service buzz.

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ShepHyken

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve talked and written about the differences between customer service and the customer experience, also known as CX. Customer service is typically what transpires between people throughout the buying process or when there is a problem. That’s part of the customer experience, but there is much more to CX than service. When you need support, there are good self-service options. They have good customer service.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2020

She writes about how one negative interaction can affect the customer’s overall experience. At a time when every customer counts, we must never forget how our customers see us. One single negative contact can ruin your reputation in the eyes of not only that one customer but also everyone he or she knows. Each department depends upon and dovetails into the other to produce quality service or product.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last week, I shared ten ideas to drive a better customer experience in 2020. Without any further delay, here are ten more ways to create a better customer experience in 2020. Create your customer service mantra. Customers love relevant information.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 10 Ways To Provide a Cutting-Edge Retail Customer Experience by Janelle Estes. Top 5 B2B Customer Experience (CX) Best Practices for 2020!

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Then someone says, Wait, does she have customer service skills? I don’t care what her resume says, does she have the skills we need to properly take care of our customers? Does she have customer service skills? Every business, whether they sell cars, software, or chicken nuggets is in the customer service business. How we relate to a potential customer takes a skill set that cannot be taught in school or a few specialized programs.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

National Customer Service Week is coming up soon. This is a week to celebrate and appreciate not only our customers, but also the people who make our customers happy. In fact, the original intent was to focus more on employees than customers, but I’m happy to celebrate both. In customer service, there are so many ways to do things right. Warmly welcome the customer into the conversation. Every year it is the first full week in October.

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BetterXperience

JULY 9, 2020

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 30, 2018

These days, customers are savvier than ever. Thanks to social media platforms, customers wield more power than ever before. Surprise and Shout-Out to Customers. Tim Hortons is another brand that has made customer service a key component of its ad strategy.

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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. Last February, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published, “ Why is Customer Service so Bad? Long phone queues and poor response times cause customers to give up, at least for the time being and try again later.

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Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates

Too often, organizations and their CX experts only look at the company's relationship with the customer to look for improvement. While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. It's time to look within: your employees' relationships with each other, and with the company. This webinar will provide you with strategic tools that can be used to raise the bar of service throughout your organization.

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