Daniel Group

APRIL 18, 2024

Intuitively, we recognize the pivotal role of communication in delivering a memorable customer experience. In this blog, you will learn how enhancing your communication strategies will improve your CX significantly. This statistical result is consistent with my observations of customer behavior. Let me illustrate with a story.

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Communication NPS Net Promoter Score 2008 98

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, George Aveling, shares an experience he had demonstrating unconscious bias during the customer experience. This is very true, unfortunately and a story we can all learn from. This article is about something that affects the quality of service delivery.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2017

This week we feature an article by Borge Hald who writes about the importance of being a customer obsessed company and how it is the key to success. We need to obsess about creating such an amazing customer experience that our customers will want to do business with us and nobody else. – Shep Hyken. Here are a few tips.

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Blog Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Feedback 92

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re already halfway through 2019 and no one can deny the rising demand for better customer experiences. Companies are now using machine learning technology to improve customer experience and traditional institutions usually resistant to change are coming under pressure from a customer base that wants more. Article No.

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2019 Article Net Promoter Score Financial 210

ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Shital Shah, writes about how with the right combination of technology and human touch, customer service doesn’t have to be difficult. She shares four excellent solutions to help manage your customer service more effectively. Shep Hyken.

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Blog Technology Customer Service Management 91

Customer Bliss

MARCH 5, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Often, what sets apart the companies that we love is that they obsess over how customers feel in certain situations. Make-Mom-Proud companies strive for innovations starting with the emotions customers are having.

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Innovation Loyalty Chief Customer Officer Hospitality 221

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Your customers want more, so you need to meet and exceed their expectations. Without that, you’ll struggle to earn their loyalty, deal with a bad reputation, and you’ll eventually lose them. But you already know what you need to do: collect customer feedback. Improve customer experience . The result?

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CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But Customer Experience (CX) specifically holds some challenges that many new leaders can take weeks or months to grasp. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”. Customer-centricity can be embedded in many places in a company’s strategy.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Customer Service Representative Contact Center 208

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience. To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books. I hold nothing back.

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Books Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management 94

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. We discussed the profitability of lousy customer service on a recent podcast.

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Customer Service Consulting Customers Poor Customer Service 188

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

Surface time-sensitive customer feedback and take immediate action to enhance the customer experience. In this case, collecting customer feedback is easy but taking action is where the real substance lies. By now we know customer feedback is critical for good business. But, simply collecting feedback isn’t enough.

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Demo NPS Feedback Article 170

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. Their knowledge and impact is constantly reshaping the service industry. If you missed the 2022 list, you can check it out here.

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2023 Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity 207

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2024

So, it’s not a matter of if but when regarding a customer crisis. Too many organizations do not plan for a customer crisis, and I want to change that. To that end, I have five rules to handle a customer crisis. Many of the principles we use to manage a customer complaint apply in this planning and building of a crisis process.

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Telecommunications Customer Relationships Communication Workshop 78

ShepHyken

MAY 18, 2018

This week we feature an article by Gary Anderson who explains why the customer experience creates customer loyalty and generates repeat business. – Shep Hyken. The customer experience you provide will set you apart from the competition. With the rise of eCommerce, customers have more choices than ever before.

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Blog Loyalty Programs Advertising Loyalty 79

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But Customer Experience (CX) specifically holds some challenges that many new leaders can take weeks or months to grasp. Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”. Customer-centricity can be embedded in many places in a company’s strategy.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Customer Service Representative Contact Center 182

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Business is built on customer relationships, and brand perception sets the tone. Customers’ combined interactions with your business or product contribute to their overall brand perception too. All of these interactions, combined with the messaging you control, make up a customer’s brand perception. Read online reviews.

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Measurement Brands Net Promoter Score Social Media 262

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2014

True story. Customers are like trick and treaters when they seek out customer support. Customers are like trick and treaters when they seek out customer support. Have you thought about how your employees interact with customers? Customers grow agitated every minute they spend waiting.

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Customer Service Social Media Customer Service Representative Consulting 284

GetFeedback

AUGUST 17, 2018

Are you getting the most out of the customer feedback you’re collecting? The best way to drive immediate results with customer feedback is to integrate it with Salesforce, your source of truth for all things customer experience. Identify trends throughout the customer journey.

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Net Promoter Score Feedback Customer Centricity NPS 150

Retently

JUNE 28, 2022

Net Promoter Score® lets you measure and analyze customer satisfaction to learn more about what people like (and dislike) about your product or business. It’s a valuable metric – for most companies and it’s the most valuable metric available for measuring customer loyalty and satisfaction. Great feedback?

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NPS Net Promoter Score Feedback Social Media 148

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 26, 2015

While many of the readers of this blog (that’s you!) are familiar with customer experience terms and ideas, most people still are not. So I explain our work of helping companies and organizations understand the true experience of their customers, leading to improved experiences. Mobile Communications. Cable/Satellite TV.

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Customer Experience Social Media Leadership Airlines 274

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 141

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Unfortunately, customers do not differentiate between the two parts.

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Zeisler Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A recurring gag is to make little jokes about headlines published around the Web that, regardless of the actual story attached, sound funny or irreverent when read on their own. When it comes to Customer experience, all of us CXers are, well…critics, no? They’re not all superstars, of course, and sometimes anybody has a bad day.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2015

And then that time you fly home with your family…only to be mistreated so incredibly that writing this blog seems like the only recourse I have. Our original flights home allowed for 90 minutes between landing in Dallas, getting through immigration and customs, rechecking bags and getting to our flight to Chicago. Spring Break!

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Airlines Customer Experience Travel Books 307

Upstream Works

JANUARY 31, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, a key theme for contact center leaders to watch is reinforcing the connection between customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX). CX must always remain the primary focus for the contact center –this recent blog post identified two 2023 trends that will have a major impact on CX.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Call center representatives are a vital part of the front line, there to help customers when they have questions or problems, and as such, they have the power to strengthen (or weaken) the customer relationship. What’s more, 21% of support centers make customers repeat their story when they are transferred to another rep.

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Call Center Customer Service Social Media Customers 104

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Implementation is everything in these success stories, and today I want to share the five rules for proven success with a CX implementation. It is surprising how often this gets skipped and bad results arrive from cutting it. Patterson and her team spoke with the customer service teams, customers, and sales teams.

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ROI Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Measurement 97

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 8, 2015

If you sell anything to anyone, you would do yourself a world of good by enlisting mystery shoppers (sometimes called secret shoppers) into your customer insights mix. Retailers, financial services organizations and healthcare practices have all enlisted mystery shoppers to help improve their customers’ experiences.

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Customer Experience Feedback Customer Journey Social Media 284

SurveySensum

JANUARY 10, 2024

Like many others, this company was passionate about improving its services and relied on customer feedback. But don’t worry; this blog will provide you with the worst and best times to send a survey so that you can evaluate your strategies and gather authentic customer feedback. Let’s get started.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’ll be off to the races as customers flock to your business with money ready to be spent throughout the holiday season, but with this all-out blitz of consumer spending also comes the inevitable: angry customers. Everything you’ve done so far this year has prepared the customer service team for what’s on the horizon.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Jim Davies at Calabrio outlines 3 winning strategies for a seamless customer experience that are guaranteed to take you over the finish line in a record-setting way. We can all recite horror stories where chatbots send us around in infinite loops with seemingly no ability or interest in actually helping us with even the simplest tasks.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Brands Interaction 52

Steve DiGioia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Great service is comprised of many parts and each must be present to create the experience every customer desires. Training for the needed service skills is an essential foundational aspect of great service in any industry. Most businesses follow service standards and guidelines that are specific to their industry.

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Books Presentation Loyalty Blog 92

SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Turns out customers don’t always say what they mean. Customer sentiment analysis lets you hear what’s really being said between the lines. If you are confused about the whole idea of customer sentiment, I have got you covered. What is Customer Sentiment? So… What is Customer Sentiment Analysis?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. The 5 Rules for improving the customer complaint process are: Read between the lines. Embrace customer complaints. Empathize with the customer. Be fast, stupid.

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Insurance Call Center Financial Consulting 153

Hello Customer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For many companies, the customer service desk is the beating heart of customer interactions. No matter the industry you’re in, your customer service desk needs to be reliable, agile, and solution-driven. But how exactly can you make your customer service desk more profitable? Do they feel supported?

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 21, 2020

I never went back in 2019, and in that lost business is a customer service lesson for all organizations. I’d had a succession of bad meals and bad service the year before, many of them concentrated in the last few months of the year. I’d had more bad meals than good ones.

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2019 Books Customer Service Customers 78

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Customer Success Metrics that Your Investors and Board Care About. They care that you’re staffed appropriately to serve the needs of your customers, because ultimately that results in revenue. If perceptual or stylistic barriers are holding you back from engaging with investors, reframe your story.

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