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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 11, 2024

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5 Straightforward Ways Small Business Owners Can Create a Stellar Customer-Focused Culture by Steven Van Belleghem (America’s Small Business Network) Embarking on a journey to craft a customer-focused culture within a small business landscape isn’t just about adhering to the norms—it’s about redefining them.

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We Work Hard to Make It Look Easy

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When I’m invited to speak to a group of business leaders as the keynote speaker, I often share my Six Simple Steps to Building a Customer-Focused Culture. There’s lots of work, thinking, planning, practice, experimenting, training, and more that goes into creating an easy experience. There’s a difference!

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of December 18, 2023

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Culture Clash: Why Customer Experience Improvements Fail by John Aves (MyCustomer.com) To successfully change your CX, you must create the right culture and climate to effect the change. I’ve stressed in all of my customer service speeches , that a customer-focused culture starts at the top with the CEO.

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When Your Company Becomes a Verb

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In our customer service training workshops , we have an exercise that introduces a concept called The Five Levels of Service. Any company should be happy with World Class , which is when the company is consistently and predictably delivering a level of service that gets customers to come back.

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The Traits That Make for Good Customer Service

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If you’re hiring someone that is going to do a lot of written correspondence with customers you need someone with good communication skills – a command of the English language, as in punctuation, spelling and grammar. There is an exercise we occasionally do in our workshops. That’s a skill. As you can imagine, we get lots of answers.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of January 6, 2020

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I’m intrigued by the first of the six ideas, which focuses on culture, but not the corporate culture. It is about being in alignment with the customer and society’s culture. Employee Experience and Customer Experience Depend on Strategy by Liliana Petrova. What would that look like? I love that question.

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How to Set Goals & Build a Strategy to Drive Customer Experience Improvement

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Therefore, any company trying to improve their customer experience should follow a defined plan to adopt a strategy that is congruent with their customer expectations. Here is a detailed step-by-step guide to setting goals and strategizing for customer experience improvement. Identifying gaps in the customer experience.