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Free Customer Service Training for your Employees / AA Cut 600+ customer facing employees To Improve Customer Service / Your Company’s Biggest Expense / United Airlines Enforcing Flight Attendants Engagement

The DiJulius Group

Your Company’s Biggest Expense is Unhappy Customers What is a better investment—advertising or customer service training? One study showed that organizations worldwide spend $500 billion per year on advertising compared to only $9 billion on customer service training. That’s a pretty big disparity.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of November 26, 2018

ShepHyken

My Comment: This short article reminds us that no matter how much you are investing – or plan to invest – in technology to deliver a better customer experience, your first investment should be in the morale of your people. Customer Retention Made Easy by Samir Palnitkar. Customer Experience by Tom Fishburne.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 17, 2017

ShepHyken

My Comment: There is a difference between a customer loyalty program and a customer retention program. A repeat customer may not be a loyal customer. The goal of saving a defecting customer isn’t about making them loyal. United Airlines and the Dollars and Cents of Customer Experience by Augie Ray.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of December 3, 2018

ShepHyken

On a recent flight, the author of this article met “Captain Adams,” who not only flew the plane but set the culture, empowered the crew and was the perfect example of a leader focused on the customer experience. The Mount Rushmore of Customer Service Leaders by John DiJulius. This is the way everyone should think.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of May 15, 2017

ShepHyken

A Look at Southwest Airlines 50 Years Later by Joseph Guinto. (D My Comment: Let’s start this weeks’ Top Five articles roundup by wishing Southwest Airlines a Happy 50th Birthday! There’s a lot we can learn from Southwest and Herb Kelleher’s obsession with customer service. .

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 6, 2020

ShepHyken

Improve customer loyalty and retention by focusing on relationships by Sarah Olson. Zendesk) Read on for customer retention strategies and tips to build long-term relationships that improve your customer loyalty. The other is more of a marketing program that rewards customers for coming back.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 27, 2020

ShepHyken

The airline didn’t need to see my boarding pass. Plenty of ideas on how to create employee satisfaction, employee engagement and the positive impact it has on the company and its customers. Customer Retention Strategies To Explode Your Business In 2020 by Matt Duczeminski. Don’t just attract new customers.

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