article thumbnail

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

ShepHyken

ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. When a customer tweets to a company and receives a response, the customer is willing to spend 3-20% more. Customers don’t want channel choice. Consistent CX is the road to Customer Success by Sofia Sapojnikova.

2016 127
article thumbnail

How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido

Myra Golden

In this keynote Myra Golden reveals that extremely difficult customers are determined to force corporations—via the customer service professional—to give in to the consumer demands—reasonable or not. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What Does Perfect Service Recovery Look Like?

ShepHyken

For those that haven’t been following, the five-steps are: 1) Acknowledge the problem and thank the customer for bringing it to your attention. Moment of Magic #1: Since it was lunch time, Sarah thought she might have to leave a message or wait on hold, but was pleasantly surprised that the manager was available to talk right away.

article thumbnail

How to lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) customers want to attend

ChurnZero

However, many customer success teams squander this opportunity by making it about themselves and not thinking outside the box. In my years as a customer success manager, I’ve seen what makes a standout QBR and what makes a bad one. Alignment is understanding why the customer cares. People hate not having options.

article thumbnail

Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

Brian Cantor is the Principal Analyst for the Customer Management Practice. Brian leads all customer experience, contact center, technology and employee engagement research initiatives. Citing this proprietary research, Brian authors CMP’s series of special reports.

Blog 96
article thumbnail

Guest Blog: Do customer experience teams take cyber security risks?

ShepHyken

An incorrect email address or a missing point of contact could be the difference between ruining a customer relationship forever and rebuilding customer trust and driving retention following a breach.”. As such, it is not just about defending against cyber attacks; CX teams should aim to be pro-active, not reactive.

Blog 104
article thumbnail

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

ShepHyken

Customers hate to be told they’re wrong. “I Customers don’t care whose fault it is, they just want someone to help. I’ll get the manager, but he’ll tell you the same thing.” What, too busy to take care of your customer? I wasn’t here when that happened. It’s not my fault.” Why don’t we wait and see?