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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of May 13, 2024

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8 Keys to Making Customer Service a More Positive Experience by Martin Zwilling (Inc. Magazine) With the advent of the internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. What Is Churn Rate? Ease of use.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 26, 2024

ShepHyken

Our customer service research sponsored by RingCentral (brand new 2024 report is now out) includes a humorous stat/finding: 79% of US consumers have called customer support and been caught in the automated menu system and repeatedly screamed, “Agent” or “Representative,” and eventually hung up out of frustration.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of December 4, 2023

ShepHyken

My Comment: When our clients are interested in our customer service training for their “new” customer service/CX initiative, they are excited and ready to start. My Comment: I’m a big fan of loyalty programs. However, most companies confuse a loyalty program with a discount or incentive program.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 4-25-2022

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Top 10 Signs Your Loyalty Program Needs Rehab by Dan Jurek. CustomerThink) Customer loyalty best practices constantly evolve. So even if your program previously achieved great results, failing to update it frequently to keep customers engaged may mean you lose money, opportunities, or both. by Chris Wyper.

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Empowering Retail Staff: Training for Exceptional Customer Service

CSM Magazine

An empowered and well-trained retail staff team is key to an unparalleled shopping experience. Key Components of Effective Customer Service Training The human interaction that a retail store can offer is a huge advantage. However, a badly trained and disinterested staff team can quickly switch this advantage around.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of May 8, 2023

ShepHyken

In many cases, they built their brand, and their differentiation from the big guys, on the idea of personalization — of being closer to their customers than their multinational rivals can be — while also offering more sophistication, a broader offering, and more underlying service capability than small businesses can.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 11-21-2022

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Points Are Just the Starting Point: What Loyalty Means Today by Stephanie Meltzer-Paul. Mastercard) The relationship between consumers and brands has never been as deep — or as complicated — as it is today. The shift to digital has fundamentally changed the conversation around brand loyalty from both sides of the equation.