ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How the ‘Zero Consumer’ is Inspiring Innovative Visual Imagery for Retail Success by Peter McCall (Total Retail) Consumers’ shopping expectations have skyrocketed. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 24, 2021

We got a suggestion from a listener—and we took it. He asked us if we had any advice for businesses with a small budget on how to use concepts from the behavioral sciences to improve moments in their Customer Experience. Then, we talked about what we would do if our fake restaurant was really in need of improvement.

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Enterprise 221

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Sharpen) If your customer service reps were honest, here’s a look into what they’d say – and tips you can use to help them during this spooky season and beyond. There have been changes and the introduction of new tactics and strategies.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Increase Employee Retention With These 4 Tips by David Finkel. The customer experience really starts on the inside of an organization with the employee experience. Here are my top five picks from last week. Take care of employees and they stay.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

An example of a company known for having excellent rapport with its customers is Apple. Tips for Building Rapport Listen Actively Active listening is foundational to building rapport. In doing so, you not only grasp the customer’s issue more comprehensively but also show them that their concerns are being taken seriously.

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Customer Service Personalization Marketing 116

ShepHyken

APRIL 16, 2021

This week we feature an article by Derek Goodman, entrepreneur and creator of Inbizability. He shares some tips on how to grow your client list despite a global health and economic crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. If you don’t already have a high-quality website , now’s the time to invest in one. Create a Media Kit .

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2020

I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. SmartBug) In this blog, we look at five customer retention strategies that you can implement to deliver more value to your customers and increase customer loyalty. You’ll have to read the article to find out about this one.) Not really.

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Customer Service Customer retention Customer centricity Education 232

ShepHyken

JUNE 8, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Sage , an international company that helps organizations of all sizes with accounting, payroll, and payment solutions. If you’re really unlucky, they might even leave a negative review. It discusses customer experience gaps that hinder profitability and how to close them.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

And, regardless of what message we think we give, its others who make assumptions which we’re judged against. Whether they’re correct or not, an impression is made based on the unconscious signals we send. So, what do they think of me, or you? If we don’t know, who’s at fault? The post What Do They Think of Me?

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Personalization 191

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This week we feature an article by Eric Melchor, founder of Elevate My CX. If you’re a Customer Experience specialist, you might think that salespeople are not the kind of role models to get customer care tips from. I give them customer experience tips and insights, not the other way around.”. But you’d be surprised.

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Airlines Sales Employee engagement Customer Experience 288

Steve DiGioia

MAY 17, 2021

That’s what our customers want and that’s what we wish to provide. Thankfully, many have developed useful acronyms to help. “Your job is to understand all of your customers’ needs—some of which they may not even realize they have,” one training manual says. Store these in your CS toolbox to use as needed.

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Customer Service Personalization Sales Technical Support 341

Steve DiGioia

MARCH 25, 2020

It seems like the logical thing to do. So, what should I do? What should we do? Thankfully we have the wonderful scientists and medical personnel to support the first stage of recovery – identifying potential remedies and treating our neighbors with the best care possible. We realize this now more than ever.

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Personalization Management Sales Customer Service 262

aircall

AUGUST 30, 2021

Really, an effective remote team should feel pretty similar to a team with a physical office. Humans are social creatures who want to feel safe and have a sense of belonging—the key here is relationship building. . You may be asking yourself, “how do I create an inclusive and productive work-from-home culture?”.

Feedback 133

Feedback Management CRM Technology 133

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Burnout gets worse and starts to have a larger effect on attrition, performance, and customer interactions.” We caught up with Ryan to discover why stress looms so large in customer success, and how CSMs can better navigate the stressors of 2024’s lean-running, efficiency-focused SaaS economy. Not being empowered.

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Morale SaaS Coaching Management 52

Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this guide, we cover some common topics surrounding small business customer service and provide some insights gained from our years of working in support — as well as insights from small business leaders who’ve created great customer service programs of their own. 5 strategies and 13 tips for small business customer service.

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Totango

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an era when customer success (CS) has become pivotal, it’s no longer enough to have a team dedicated to CS. Drive business outcomes leveraging Totango The first topic we discussed was how each of our experts leveraged Totango to drive business outcomes within their respective organizations.

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Automotive Journey mapping Self service Sales 99

CSM Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

It is worse today than in 1979 when I decided to do something about customer service and developed the world’s first customer service program, Feelings which was released in January 1980. I keep wondering if customers have given up on demanding better service or if this is the new normal in customer service. I said they are really bad.

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Customer Service Management 105

delighted

AUGUST 4, 2023

When will we get our first response? When will we get our 100th response? What nice graphs and visualizations can we create with this newfound data? In this post, we’ll cover 5 tips for digesting negative feedback to reduce the likelihood of feedback burnout as a customer experience professional.

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Feedback Management Surveys Personalization 78

BlueOcean

MARCH 14, 2024

If that’s the case, here are a few discerning questions to ask: Do you need to add capacity? Do you have to scale for rapid growth or seasonal volume? Do you just need to focus on your core offering? What does it really look like to source a strategic partnership with an outsourced customer care provider?

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Contact Center outsourcing Customer Care Engineering 71

Russel Lolacher

MARCH 20, 2023

Her thoughts and work have been featured in Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed and O – The Oprah Magazine. Lauren Appio Hi, Russel, how you doing today? I have to start off all things. Her motto: Let’s make work less shitty for each other. And here’s why she is awesome. Hello, Lauren.

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Coaching Personalization Consulting Consulting 98

Fonolo

JULY 13, 2023

We are social creatures and the key to any healthy human relationship is effective communication. The more empathy you have with your customers, the more they will value their relationship with you - and your products. And customers do notice — nearly 50% of customers believe companies act empathy when delivering customer service.

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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s not that important what kind of business you do. We are humans that live in their social bubbles. If we like it or not, we are surrounded by brands and products we bought thanks to someone’s recommendations. Read our latest tips on how to provide great customer service. TIP: Be emphatic.

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Customer Experience Advertising Customer Support Surveys 111

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

9 tips to get your CSMs to adopt Customer Success software. Have you ever worked at a company where the Customer Success team had to beg for its own tools? That’s why despite our knowing better, we don’t always do better. I have a few tips to help you drive adoption that sticks. So how do we overcome this?

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Toister Performance Solutions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Here are a few of the topics we covered: Why do customers struggle to describe what they want? Why do we need to ask better questions? Why do customers struggle to describe what they want? The challenge is customers notoriously struggle to describe what they really want. What is customer co-creation?

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Advertising Feedback Surveys Customer Service 127

Toister Performance Solutions

JUNE 8, 2023

Why do we subject employees to role playing? As a trainer, I've used role playing in the past and have seen its limitations. Here's an old video from the archive that shows what happens when people try to do more than one thing at once: What can you do instead? The interactions are just not natural."

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Customer Service Customer emotions Coaching Contact Center 81

Totango

JUNE 10, 2022

As we saw in our 2021 State of the Customer Success Industry and Salary Report , the role of Customer Success Manager (CSM) is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the industry. At times, it’s hard to do, but it will help you grow faster. . And if so, do you have any tips on what to post? JD : Absolutely!

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. We are here today to say, with respect, they’re wrong. It’s kind of ironic because many (most?)

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SaaS outsourcing Brand ambassadors Average Handle Time 71

SharpenCX

OCTOBER 1, 2023

While there’s a strong business case for customer experience personalization, doing it well can be easier said than done. To do so, your agents need easy, fingertip access to all relevant customer information. To do so, your agents need easy, fingertip access to all relevant customer information. Shocking, but true.

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Personalization Customer Experience Interactive Voice Response Contact Center 67

Toister Performance Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The manager delegates customer service training to you and expects you to do all the work. As an external trainer, I have the luxury of turning down the business. I simply won’t take a job where the manager refuses to do their part because I know the training is likely to fail. These managers take a "fix my people" approach.

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Management Customer Service Feedback Marketing 109

Toister Performance Solutions

AUGUST 10, 2023

How to grow your rapport skills Most of us have a good foundation of rapport skills. These are the skills we use to make friends and build relationships with people outside of work. You want your team to grow their customer service skills. The challenge is finding the right skills to focus on. Which ones are the most essential?

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Customer Service Scripts Personalization Feedback 95

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books. Whether you’re planning new CX strategies , want to become more customer-centric , or just want to learn more about customer experience , these customer experience books will help you do that. Nowadays, most people search for information online.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer centricity Management 94

Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I have to admit; it’s awfully cool to work at FCR , a company where we observe the support channel mix for dozens of different companies. We have a small contingency of social media, SMS, and other messaging channels, like Facebook messenger in the mix. Tip 1: Start small and sustainable. Been there, done that.

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Interactive Voice Response outsourcing Service level Marketing 136

Call Experts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

52% of consumers say they have made an additional purchase from a company after a positive customer service experience. With almost 40 years of experience supporting businesses through the holiday season, we’ve learned some tips and tricks to help streamline holiday customer service. Don’t Make Customers Suffer. billion and $960.4

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Expivia

AUGUST 25, 2020

Main Focuses: Call Center Culture Let’s be honest, you have never really defined it. The first step to having a company culture is to define it in a couple of words or pillars. Defining a culture: How do you treat reps? How do you treat management? How do you operate sales, service, and tech?

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Call Center Employee engagement Sales Feedback 97

Nicereply

APRIL 12, 2023

People spend a lot of time at work and walking into a nightmare environment with a team you don’t really jive with can take its toll. We also share great insights from our beloved colleague, Katarina Javorcikova, on how to build a strong and long-lasting team culture within your company. But let me stop you there.

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Customer Service Feedback Healthcare Education 98

CSM Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Folk wisdom tells us that you have to spend money to make money. However, we live in a time when this old saying is not necessarily true. Check it out, while here we will dive deeper into what it means to earn daily without virtually any resources invested. Can you really earn daily with apps?

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Customer Service Life

MAY 16, 2022

I’ve never really considered myself a “reptile person.” It’s all still a bit creepy though, but we’re adapting. We actually adopted Mouse from another family who included a tank in the deal, instructing us to put a brick on top of her tank lid because she likes to escape. Problem solved.

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