ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

Competitive Advantage 101

Competitive Advantage Case Study Communication Insurance 101

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 266

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 266

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience. To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books. I hold nothing back.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 236

ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Jeremy Watkin shares a story demonstrating the importance of empowerment to great customer service. This speaks to a value that really marks a great customer service professional. Or perhaps you work in a restaurant where customers take orders to go.

Policies 84

Policies Leadership Customer Service Customers 84

NICE inContact

APRIL 3, 2018

But on a daily basis, thousands of individuals who make up the area’s most vulnerable, at-risk populations—veterans, homeless families, even those who have committed crimes—depend on the agency for critical health, personal and social services. Learn more. .

Omni-Channel 122

Omni-Channel Interaction Resources Measurement 122

Uniphore

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is a contributed blog post by Dipu KV, President – Operations & Customer Experience at Bajaj Allianz General a recent guest on Uniphore’s Conversations that Matter podcast. That’s the extent to which digitization is being used nowadays to transform the customer service landscape. came to the fore.

Insurance 100

Insurance Self Service Contact Center Travel 100

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Erich Lawson, writes about the importance of being an eco-friendly business and how it can encourage loyalty among consumers. This is a great example of finding out what is important to your customer and making it a priority. Shep Hyken. What Message Are You Conveying?

Loyalty 85

Loyalty Policies Consumers Exercises 85

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

And in order for brands to grow and build meaningful relationships with their customers in today’s industry, they need to be available on these various channels by adopting an omnichannel approach. More than just a recent buzzword, omnichannel represents a shift in the way brands engage with their customers. It maximizes efficiency.

Omni-Channel 150

Omni-Channel Touchpoint Social Media Rewards Programs 150

Customer Bliss

MAY 6, 2020

The purpose of the organization was to become the finest service organization in the world. Is it excellent for our customers? I had a philosophy: I go to work for two reasons. I go to work every morning and I remind myself of that philosophy; I go to work to create excellence in what I’m doing.

Hotels 156

Hotels Communication Leadership System 156

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. They focused their attention on the customer-facing teams at first. That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. We all know happy employees make happy customers.

Net Promoter Score 78

Net Promoter Score Engagement Effort Score Customer Centricity 78

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 182

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 182

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots 156

Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 105

Steve DiGioia

MAY 17, 2021

Great customer service. That’s what our customers want and that’s what we wish to provide. In today’s post, I compiled my list of the top 10 customer service acronyms to use every day. It was about finding solutions for a customer and finding their pain points ”. Customer Service Acronyms You Need to Know.

Customer Service 341

Customer Service e-support Self Service Customers 341

ShepHyken

MARCH 23, 2018

Situation : Your mission statement has become, or always has been, merely words on a wall and not a philosophy embraced by employees. They had greater employee engagement and more loyal customers. Negative customer reviews or feedback. Employee – mission disconnect. Stating your mission once is not enough.

Communication 82

Communication Leadership Airlines Social Media 82

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2021

We recently spoke to Customer Experience experts who shared an interesting insight. They all say they wish people understood that there was no one thing to do, no silver-bullet-solution for Customer Experience. In other words, there is no one thing, but many things that you should do to improve your Customer Experience in 2021.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Consulting Financial Customers 89

Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Guidelines Customer Satisfaction 52

ShepHyken

AUGUST 26, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Doug Sandler, busts some popular customer service myths. MYTH – Great customer service starts with understanding the customer is always right. MYTH – Great customer service is about being quick to resolve problems.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Policies Communication Training 0

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Varying levels of expertise, coupled with different perspectives on organizational and customer problems, is invaluable to the contact center. Each generation has unique viewpoints, philosophies, and priorities as a result of the societal, technological, and economic environment present during their formative years. A contact center !

Tips 136

Tips Management Contact Center Course 136

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 17, 2017

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. If customers just had a gadget that could do more or electronic kiosks they could play with in the store, or a virtual reality app – well, then the customer experience would be great.

Technology 133

Technology Touchpoint Case Study Consulting 133

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Language is essential to your customer experience , so today, I thought we could examine why. My focus on language this week started when Shane Smith from Everetics , a customer support and service consulting company, sent in a None of Us Are as Clever as All of Us video on the importance of language. I felt that way, too.

How To 78

How To Exercises Video Policies 78

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve followed the American Customer Satisfaction Institute (ACSI) results since I started Beyond Philosophy in 2002. When you consider all the resources organizations and individuals have put into customer experience and the voice of the customer, I wonder… was it worth it? Guess what? So, how can this be?

Customer Satisfaction 89

Customer Satisfaction Effort Score Competitive Advantage Self Service 89

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 11, 2024

Listen to the podcast: One of the things I talk about a lot with clients is customer emotions. The reason I do is because over half of any experience is highly influenced by customer emotions, which, among other things, motivate customers to act. So, what does a job to be done have to do with customers?

How To 78

How To Exercises Video Customers 78

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 4, 2023

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. Provide value to your customers or your audience. For example, there were other Customer Experience consultants when I started.

Consulting 78

Consulting Social Media Examples Customer Experience 78

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 18, 2024

So, today we are going to look at how you can strike a balance between personalizing your interactions and offerings for customers without freaking them out. So, even though I know I can get the lure cheaper somewhere else, I appreciate the personalized service and I buy all my fishing gear there.

Advertising 78

Advertising Conference Technology Brands 78

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity. It’s a simple concept, really. Some do both.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2019

When I created Beyond Philosophy, I chose the name for a reason. I believe it is crucial to do more than discuss your theories about Customer Experience strategy. Sure, you need to think about it, understand the philosophy behind it as well as the science, but after that, you should go beyond the philosophy and do something.

Customer Journeys 149

Customer Journeys Training Exercises Customers 149

Comm100

JUNE 19, 2018

Hearing the philosophies that power world-class companies to deliver exceptional customer experiences is incredibly inspiring, and can drive you to adjust the same philosophies that affect your processes. But working out how processes need to change to fall in line with those same philosophies can be tougher.

Contact Center 101

Contact Center Entertainment eBook Culture 101

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Beyond Philosophy did research late last year with our clients and within the marketplace to sort out what business wants in the next decade. We also discussed how your Customer Experience plays into the mix to help you facilitate customer-driven growth. . Where do we get new customers? Business Growth Types.

Meeting 172

Meeting Hospitality Return on Investment Telecommunications 172

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Just not Beyond Philosophy, it seems. #2: 2: Referral Programs Much like an affiliated marketing scheme, a referral program incentivizes your customers to refer their friends and family to use you. sell) your product or service for you. Reviews are essential for many shoppers, mainly if your product or service is new.

Sales 78

Sales Strategy Social Media Advertising 78

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 17, 2023

As a pioneer in the experience movement, Pine has a new customer strategy concept that we discussed on a recent podcast, so I thought I would share what we learned here as well. Every company has to align what they charge with what their customers value. Pine also says that people want goods and services to be commoditized.

Self Service 78

Self Service Hospitality Video Customers 78

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 20, 2020

The reason we are is the same reason branding works for your organization to attract customers. We had some good news, which is that Beyond Philosophy has been recognized as one of the best management consultancies by Financial Times for the second year in a row. Making Your Brand Available to Customers.

Tools 171

Tools Marketing Consulting Social Media 171

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. I wondered how I did that.

Net Promoter Score 171

Net Promoter Score Company Customer Centricity Airlines 171

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2024

Listen to the podcast: You have a hidden impact on your return on investment for your customer experience management programs. This hidden impact kicks in between a given moment in your customer process and the customer behavior that results from it. She asked the right blokes about this one. However, the opposite is also true.

ROI 78

ROI Return on Investment Exercises Measurement 78

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2024

So, it’s not a matter of if but when regarding a customer crisis. Too many organizations do not plan for a customer crisis, and I want to change that. To that end, I have five rules to handle a customer crisis. Many of the principles we use to manage a customer complaint apply in this planning and building of a crisis process.

Telecommunications 78

Telecommunications Customer relationships Communication eBook 78

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Each year, we do a Global Leader Survey of top executives in Customer Experience Management. According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They have stated publicly they want to be the “ Earth’s most customer centric company. ” They communicate well. They are easy to use.

Banking 138

Banking Culture Employee Engagement CEM 138

CX Journey

MAY 29, 2019

It appeared on their blog on June 14, 2018. If you want to move beyond cosmetic changes and lip service to real changes in both the employee experience and the customer experience, the first thing you have to look at is your company’s culture. The employee experience drives the customer experience. It's my blog.)

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Culture Employee Experience Leadership Customer Experience 145