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Being the Bearer of Bad News

ShepHyken

It doesn’t really matter what the bad news is; the key to managing the customer experience is how you deliver the bad news. While the price increase wasn’t very much – just one dollar a month – they still had to share the news with their customers. It’s a bummer. We don’t want to do it.

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Guest Blog: Speed Saves Relationships

ShepHyken

When a customer writes a complaint online, review, tweet, post, etc., Your business is not where you are, it’s where your customers are… online. In a report by The Customer Experience Index in 2012 released by Forrester , 80% of businesses believe they are delivering superior customer service.

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Customer Experience Influencers You Must Follow – Part 2

Customer Guru

She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. with the intent of helping business leaders and organizations in improving their company culture and aligning the employees and their products/services towards the customers’ needs.

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Talkdesk Weekly Round-Up #2

Talkdesk

We don’t like to be overly complicated, so here’s the deal: We help you, you help your customers. This week, as always, we’ve lassoed up some advice from around the web to help you improve your company’s customer service strategy. Want to be Customer-Centric? Source: 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer.

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Guest Post: Ritz-Carlton Customer Service Secrets

Service Untitled

It can be peer to peer, peer to manager, employee to president, president to employee. Don’t assume that their mother or father, or previous employer taught them what really great service looks like. Have a written service strategy. Before joining Software Advice in 2012, she worked in sales management and advertising.