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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 18, 2024

ShepHyken

While MarTech emerged, customer engagement reached a new level and made it easier for the management to shorten the distance between marketers and clients. My Comment: Smart companies are now using AI to help them understand customer behavior and preferences.

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Act Like an Owner – Revisited!

ShepHyken

One of my favorite concepts to cover in my customer service keynote speeches is to act like an owner. I originally wrote about this in 2011 and shared the story of an 18-year-old server at a pizza restaurant who took so much pride in his work that the guests thought he owned the restaurant.

2011 105
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The Beautiful Intersection of Content and Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

She is the author of Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content and co-author of the best-selling Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (Wiley 2011). Want a full workup on her?

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Inbenta Profiled in Conversational AI “Hot Vendor” report by Aragon Research

Inbenta

We believe the report accurately identifies our strengths in enabling businesses to transform their customer relationships through the ability to communicate, manage, and track all customer engagements through seamless conversations across multiple channels.”. About Inbenta.

2011 64
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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes it is differentiating, and offers consumers definite benefits – such as practiced by companies like Zappos, Wegmans, Ritz Carlton, Rackspace, Southwest Airlines, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Baptist Health Care, and Zane’s Cycles – and sometimes it is just one of multiple factors which contribute to customer loyalty or disloyalty behavior.

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How To Expand Your C-Suite Without Creating New Silos

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

One of the most challenging aspects of customer experience is setting boundaries around duties within organizations. And yet… In 2011, Forrester reported more than half of Chief Customer Officers were not included in their company’s executive management teams.

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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

ShepHyken

A good customer experience (CX) begins with a 24-hours seamless website user experience, followed by top-notch customer care, and concludes with the receiving of the product/service purchased from you. . Companies failing to meet good customer experience lose out on their customers ( American Express Survey 2011 ).