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15 Top Customer Service Training Courses for Your Agents (Half Are Free)

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According to research conducted in 2015 by Aspect Cloud Solutions , 76% of respondents see “customer service as a ‘true test’ of how much a company values them.” ” And customer service training is vital to maintaining excellent customer relations. Image source: ALISON.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of November 13, 2023

ShepHyken

4 Surefire Ways to Be Exceptional With Your Customer Care by Emily Reynolds Bergh (Entrepreneur) Being kind is not something you necessarily associate with the business world, but remember, at the end of the day, your clients are people, too. Consistency builds trust and confidence. All six of these ideas are valid.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 12, 2024

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Jenkins (Social Media Examiner) Want to deliver extraordinary customer care that leads to client retention? Wondering how your approach to customer experience leads to tangible outcomes like increased sales, customer retention, and referrals? Beyond Transactions: How to Build Lasting Client Partnerships by Lisa D.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 29, 2024

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Service without a Smile: Bad Customer Service Examples by David Rand (The Future of Commerce) Research reveals the poor state of customer service. According to the 2023 National Customer Rage Survey from Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC) and the W.P.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 23, 2023

ShepHyken

Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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CX and EX (Customer Experience and Employee Experience)

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In many of our customer service workshops, we do an exercise where the participants answer a powerful question that helps them understand what makes them different: Why should someone do business with us? And, even if it is different, do our customers care? In other words, why us instead of our competition.

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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.