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Should I Ever Hang Up on a Customer?

CSM Magazine

“The customer is always right” is a timeless phrase. But if your customer is being unreasonable, or worse, abusive, should you simply hang up? Contact center agents are on the frontline of customer interactions, representing the face—or rather, the voice—of a company.

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35 Indicators that a Company Isn’t Customer-Centric

CX Accelerator

By Jeremy Watkin and the CX Accelerator Community I’ve got a big trip coming up, and in preparation, I needed to check my flight itinerary so I could book a rental car and long-term airport parking. It’s at that point I realized that I never received an email from the airline after booking my flight. Again, huh?

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The Evolution of Customer Experience in the Travel Industry

BlueOcean

Even before the pandemic, customers found themselves faced with myriad rules, restrictions, and bottlenecks to navigate before reaching their destination, leading to many a meltdown at checkpoints and terminals around the world. Questions from customers abound: “What are the new rules? What do I need to embark on my journey?

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Rethinking the ROI of CX

Zeisler Consulting

Articulating the return on investment (ROI) of Customer Experience efforts is a recurring theme among CX professionals. As I moderate panels on webinars and sit as a guest on podcasts, listen to my peers talk, and read articles, I hear the questions all the time: How do you define the ROI? How do you sell CX to leadership?

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Challenging Your Focus on Customers

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I have a challenge for you. Keep a tally of how many times the product is mentioned compared to the customer, in any meeting. Be aware of how often product innovation is discussed as its own end goal, without mentioning how it meets the needs of customers. What’s really meaningful to your customers?

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5 Customer Experience Fails that Make Entrepreneurs Suffer

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I love to hang around with entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, all that passion doesn’t translate to a sustainable customer experience strategy. Here are some ways entrepreneurs typically fail at customer experience: 1. Customer experience is not part of their mission. What happens when companies scale?

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What’s the secret? 10 rules for creating a incredibly successful consultancy

Beyond Philosophy

After over two decades with my global Customer Experience consultancy, it occurred to me that I have a lot of advice on the topic, which I boiled down into the 10 rules for building a successful consultancy. So, let’s look at the rules first and then dive deeper into what I mean by them. Have the right mindset.