Customers That Stick

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

What should be on my customer service job resume? There are lot of topics you should cover on your resume, but as someone who has hired hundreds of people for customer-facing roles, I can tell you the main idea you want to convey — especially if you’re just starting out — is that you are passionate about customer service.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already starting to impact customer service. Employees in many customer service roles are beginning to wonder whether they will lose their job to a robot, whether or not their role will be replaced. This impact is certainly to grow immensely in size in the coming years.

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Kayako

MAY 13, 2022

In recent years, the rise of social media put the customer in charge of the brand conversation. As e-commerce and demand for online help expands, companies have to meet and exceed new expectations to keep customers satisfied. Fortunately, customers also like to help themselves. Discover Kayako Self Service.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 24, 2024

After that frustrating experience, I had a newfound appreciation for customers who have to deal with unresponsive customer experience (CX) teams that fail to act on customer feedback! Just like a hapless tourist, customers are eager to share details of their experience. However, first, you have to know where to look!

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This blog is all about Delivering the World’s Best Customer Experience. In my posts, I provide advice to improve face to face customer interactions. James and GetApp are focused on offering the best customer service technology solutions. So, How Can You Improve Customer Service?

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ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Mike Schoultz shares a few customer experience stories that demonstrate how companies have handled customer experiences, some well and some not so well. How many of you consider customer service or customer experience as elements of your marketing?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. What’s stopping your customers from being loyal? Graham Jones) Most business leaders appreciate that 80% of their profits come from 20% of their customers. Keeping loyal customers is the “holy grail” of business. by Graham Jones.

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NICE inContact

JULY 5, 2019

I’ve just returned from Las Vegas where I attended my first visit ever to Customer Contact Week – it’s the world’s largest customer contact event, in its 20th year. For the uninitiated, CCW is like those popular comic book fan conventions – except, instead of comic books, the hero is THE customer.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Customer experience, in all is complexity, really is about one thing to your customers: Expectations. Think about your own journeys as a customer. Most likely, your story starts with a “They promised me.” Jerry explains the job isn’t about taking the reservation for customers, it’s about holding the reservation.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 26, 2018

I became a student on the topic because I wanted my children to learn how to constructively use humor to take themselves and the world around them less seriously. Humor and Customer Experience. The topic for this week, thus, became irrepressible. How and when should we use humor to engage customers? Tips for the Journey.

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Provide Support

JUNE 23, 2016

How to Build a World-Class Customer Service Team. It’s undoubtedly true that basing your business around customer service always pays off. These days, we’ve been witnessing many amazing stories of companies that made customer service a key pillar of their business and eventually the face of their brand.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We’re back again with some fresh CX stories from the frontlines. In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog , recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. Streamlining the Agent Experience by Displaying Relevant Information.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You want your live chat customer service experience to be top notch, so it’s no wonder you want the best and the brightest for the job. How can you tell who will treat your customers with kindness and compassion – who will work diligently to provide them with the solutions and the support that they are reaching out for?

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 10, 2023

When 2 “hospitality guys” get together, there’s bound to be many stories and CS/CX secrets to share. Thanks, Tony Johnson for having me as a guest on your podcast. Click here to listen.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 29, 2017

When we started recording episodes for our Crack the Customer Code podcast, I wasn’t sure if my co-host Adam Toporek and I would have enough to discuss. I mean, how much is there, really, to say about customer experience and customer service? And we are always looking for fantastic guests or great stories to share.

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re already halfway through 2019 and no one can deny the rising demand for better customer experiences. Companies are now using machine learning technology to improve customer experience and traditional institutions usually resistant to change are coming under pressure from a customer base that wants more. Article No.

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Helpt

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This blog post will illustrate the basics of DDDM, tracing the transition from traditional decision-making approaches to the data-centric ones in place today. But let’s first start with a story that may speak to your caveman-like tendencies. The Rise of Big Data in Business So what’s the lesson to this story?

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Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I’d like to take a moment to tell Customers That Stick™ readers about the 25 th annual Compete Through Service Symposium ( online brochure ) put on by the Center for Services Leadership at Arizona State University’s W.P. I am proud to say that I have a Certificate in Customer Experience from the W.P.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 23, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. The extra mile customer with the gusto to call and call, search, act as a private eye, and put the pieces together and make copies and send files and return receipts gets the worm. End service exhaustion!

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this digital age of customer shopping behavior, customer experience is not JUST a desirable outcome – it’s CRITICAL to your business’s success. I believe that today’s consumers are more attentive to the quality of the service they receive rather than the product itself. CSAT score.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As SaaS organizations and their customers slowly but surely get used to the ‘new normal’ that 2020 ushered in, customer success managers and team leaders are more focused than ever before. Luckily for customer success teams, there is no shortage of resources available. The ClientSuccess CSM From the Trenches Blog Series.

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BirdEye

MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent survey of our expansive network of over 150,000 customers, it was discovered that 81% of businesses manage their social media strategies at the corporate level. That’s why we’ve created this blog that features seven networks that every realtor should be a part of.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

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Bill Quiseng

MARCH 7, 2016

We have all seen the word “viral” tagged to a personal story about bad customer service more often than a good one. At the same time, the millennials and Gen Z who interact primarily through digital communication are becoming your customers and will expect you to be available to them via social media.

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Eptica

MAY 8, 2019

Author: Pascal Gauvrit - CTO Artificial intelligence is one of the most-talked about topics in the world today, with stories about its benefits and potential negative effects continually cropping up in the news agenda. Of course, many people want to know how AI can help them deliver a better customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

What does lifelong learning have to do with customer experience? Well, here are a few ways their lack of learning might negatively impact their customer’s experience. Off the top of my head… Have you ever felt like you had to educate a customer service agent or salesperson when you were the customer?

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Service Untitled

MARCH 22, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. I didn’t notice much that was just kept in boxes or otherwise inaccessible to customers. They were all over the store and there were also well placed information booths where customers could ask questions.

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BirdEye

AUGUST 28, 2023

Having a social media profile is one thing, but successfully implementing a strong social media management strategy is a different story for a business. In this blog, you will learn actionable steps to create an irresistible social media profile for your business. Table of contents What is a social media profile?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 5, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Support Is an Investment, Not an Expense by Dave Seaton (CMSWire) Traditionally, software companies view support as a necessary expense — a cost center they must bear to correct mistakes. I’ve even used it.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Jim Davies at Calabrio outlines 3 winning strategies for a seamless customer experience that are guaranteed to take you over the finish line in a record-setting way. We can all recite horror stories where chatbots send us around in infinite loops with seemingly no ability or interest in actually helping us with even the simplest tasks.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The problem is that social media is such a broad topic, and an effective social media team comes from a variety of knowledge levels and backgrounds. The following blog post will give you helpful training tips, social media training exercises, and a brief list of courses that will help your social media team rise above and beyond.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Customer satisfaction is dependent upon knowing your customers’ needs and expectations. But your ability to meet, and even exceed customer expectations is often dependent upon what customers think their experience should look like. They include: Your communication to the customer. Experience with other companies.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Still, customers don’t respond to a non-apology the same way they do a sincere one. Research shows that customers feel a sense of restored fairness when companies apologize, provided CEOs show sufficient empathy— a key factor for successful personal apologies, too. . They called me day and night when they felt the need to.”)

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Verint

AUGUST 28, 2017

In my last blog, Social Communities—Hey, Get Your Own! , I explained how public social networks and corporate-owned social communities are used to expand reach and improve customer engagement. It’s common for companies to use their Twitter handles, several in some cases, to communicate with customers, partners and prospects.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 20, 2022

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Jon Picoult , Founder of Watermark Consulting, to learn what it takes to not only impress your customers but to make them obsessed with your brand. Listen to your Customers – It’s Worth the Effort.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adrian Swinscoe.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Author: Pauline Ashenden As we come to the end of a busy 2017 it is a good time to review the year, and in particular to look at the most important developments in customer experience over the last 12 months. What were the hot topics and what were the major changes in the market?

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