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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 14, 2016

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. Where Customer Service is Failing: Top Priorities For Your Contact Center [Research] by Sharpen.

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United Airlines Computer Outage Is Customer Service Crisis Case Study

ShepHyken

Yet every cloud has a silver lining, and in this instance it’s a mini-case study on how to handle a customer service crisis. I can’t speak to what happened at the airport when passengers approached gate agents for help, or what happened on the phone lines as passengers tried to reach a customer service representative.

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Affordable Customer Service E-Learning

Myra Golden

How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. Email Writing: 3 elements of a great email customer experience. Training Features.

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Affordable Customer Service E-Learning

Myra Golden

How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. How to Talk to Customers: Human relations skills to help your employees deliver a delightful customer experience. Email Writing: 3 elements of a great email customer experience. Training Features.

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How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido

Myra Golden

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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What Does Perfect Service Recovery Look Like?

ShepHyken

There are many great customer service stories that can serve as a template for how to handle a problem. I always fall back on my five-step service recovery process to handle all complaints and problems. Moment of Magic #2: The manager acknowledges the mistake and apologizes, and then offers up a solution.

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“That’s Not My Department” and 10 Other Phrases Customers Hate

ShepHyken

You finally get to a customer service rep. You tell your story and the customer service rep responds, “I’m sorry, that’s not my department.” Since customer service has become a center of attention for most companies (even though some still don’t get it right), “That’s not my department” is being heard less and less.