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5 Things Great CEOs Understand About Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

They no longer have interactions with them, and rely on others like account managers, frontline employees and customer service teams to provide those one-on-one interactions. Customer-focused organizations prioritize keeping customers close.

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The Customer-Centric Compass

CSM Magazine

Exceptional Responsiveness One of the first signs that you’re dealing with a customer-centric company is their exceptional responsiveness. They don’t just view your inquiries as tasks to be checked off they see them as opportunities to connect and assist.

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CX Education for Employees: Why it Matters & How to Develop Your Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

One approach to take is tackling a small part of customer experience each month. Help everyone in the organization connect how their role contributes to the customer experience. These should fit into the bigger themes and still be seen as connected to the CX training, not just generic “service training.”.

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Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!

ShepHyken

So many ways to serve chicken—so many ways you can amaze your customer. And like chicken, customer service—no matter how you serve it to your customer—is still customer service. A good customer service representative—or anyone in a customer-facing role—can manage the customer’s experience in numerous ways.

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Customer Service Week: A Time to Celebrate Customers AND Employees

ShepHyken

The top response, with over 65% of respondents in agreement, is that people just want to be treated like a valued customer—with kindness, respect and dignity. Customers are people, not account numbers. And “friendly” is all about that personal touch—an empathetic human connection—which is even more important than ever these days.

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Guest blog: 5 Customer Experience Trends for Financial Institutions in 2023

Comm100

Humanizing the digital experience As businesses focus on digitization and customer interaction becomes more automated, customer experiences lose a personal touch. Companies can no longer connect with clients on a human level, and as a result, clients feel neglected.

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Dare to Care: Why You Can’t Script Sincerity in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

I actually had one customer service representative repeat that phrase so many times that I asked them not to say it anymore. What they appear to be doing is regurgitating the responses they learned in their customer service training classes or what’s printed on a piece of paper. They aren’t really sorry.