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Customer Service Week 2024

ShepHyken

If you’re reading this article the day it comes out, then next week – the first full week of October – is Customer Service Week. I refer to this vision as a mantra , which is a sentence or less describing what you want your customers to experience. Celebrate your employees all year.

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The Secret to Outperforming the Competition: It’s Not Just About Customers

ShepHyken

If you’ve been a subscriber to the Shepard Letter , then you know I preach that a good CX (customer experience) starts with a good EX (employee experience). And I believe that, but if someone says, “Put the customer at the center,” instead of employees, I’m okay with that. It won’t hurt. You must do both.

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The Employee Hierarchy of Needs

ShepHyken

Last week, I introduced you to The Customer Hierarchy of Needs based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This week, we focus on our employees. Before you can have a strong customer experience, you must have a good employee experience. This motivates them to come to work and helps keep them employed with you.

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Does Your Company Culture Align With Your Outsourced Contact Center?

Advantage Communications

In a lot of our blogs, we talk about just how important the customer experience is to a successful customer service strategy.

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Price Is Only Relevant in the Absence of Value

ShepHyken

It’s about the entire customer experience. If a promise to provide value in the CX is built into a company’s mission and values statements, it potentially becomes part of the culture. Imagine if your organization were bold enough to state that the value it delivers to customers would make price irrelevant. It’s simple.

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20 Ways To Create An Amazing Customer Service Experience In 2020 (Part Two)

ShepHyken

Without any further delay, here are ten more ways to create a better customer experience in 2020. Create your customer service mantra. The mantra is a simple phrase—one sentence or less—that sums up your customer service culture. Customers love when the places they do business with give back.

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Excellent Customer Service Is Your Company’s Secret Weapon

Integrity Solutions

In a world where customers have more options available to them — and more ways to vent frustrations publicly — you can’t afford to drop the ball on excellent customer service. Last week was National Customer Service Week , an annual — and now global — event devoted to celebrating the people who make customer service happen.