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How to Disrupt Your Competition

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Less than one week before the release of my new book, The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty , so I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on how being easy – or convenient – can give you a competitive advantage over your competition.

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Strike One and You’re Out! Five Ways to Ensure Your Customer Service Is a Hit

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According to the Five9 Customer Index 2017 report , 77% of customers in the B2C space will not do business with you again if you give them bad customer service the first time they do business with you. Our customers are smarter than ever, at least as customer service is concerned. This is huge.

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Different is Better Than Better

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I’m going to break just a bit from my typical customer service/customer experience ideas and share another lesson: Different is better than better. . It might give you a competitive advantage, and more importantly, it will set you apart from others. So, it’s not that you are different. But something changed.

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Three Powerful Ideas From a Former Amazon Exec

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. Did Bezos really believe that Amazon should be so good they didn’t need a customer service department? Did he really have an empty chair in his meetings to represent the customer? Those are questions I asked Bill Price, Amazon’s first global vice president of customer service and the founder and president of Driva Solutions.

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The Light Switch Mentality??

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Great customer-focused companies make it easy to get information quickly. It might be a Frequently Asked Questions page on the company’s website or a video tutorial that teaches exactly what the customer needs without having to call customer support. They want to get information quickly and easily.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of September 18, 2017

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Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. 3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers by Shay Namdarian. My Comment: Let’s start this week’s top five with a short article that has three simple tips to help you better understand your customer.

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40 Best Customer Service Books We’d Recommend to Support Operators

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Customers wouldn’t see what you have to offer, but what you are willing to change for them. That’s the true essence of customer service experience. To help you understand this essence and develop better customer service strategies, we’ve curated a list of some of the best customer service books below.

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