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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

To put it simply: focus on your holistic customer experience design before you add new channels. Each channel must prioritize issue resolution and promote customer confidence rather than get thrown into the mix as a “more is better” afterthought. Bolting on new channels with an ad-hoc approach is not the answer. Got 15 minutes?

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 14, 2016

ShepHyken

ROI’s on the Prize: Twitter Links Social Customer Care and Willingness to Pay by Lia Winograd. When a customer tweets to a company and receives a response, the customer is willing to spend 3-20% more. My Comment: One of the best ways to create customer confidence is by creating a consistent customer experience.

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Three Ways to Create Confidence with Your Customers

ShepHyken

I recently interviewed Nate Skinner, the VP of Customer Care for Campaign Monitor, a company that helps businesses use email to market their businesses. It was for one of my Forbes columns, Seven Ways to Use Email to Build Your Brand and Create a Better Customer Experience.

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How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido

Myra Golden

In this keynote Myra Golden reveals that extremely difficult customers are determined to force corporations—via the customer service professional—to give in to the consumer demands—reasonable or not. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido

Myra Golden

In this keynote Myra Golden reveals that extremely difficult customers are determined to force corporations—via the customer service professional—to give in to the consumer demands—reasonable or not. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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How to lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) customers want to attend

ChurnZero

Alignment is understanding why the customer cares. Invite customers to influence the conversation. If you use them to talk about all the work you have done for the customer and the data you want to present and the upsell opportunity you want to promote, then yeah, they will be an hour-long drag.

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What Does Perfect Service Recovery Look Like?

ShepHyken

For those that haven’t been following, the five-steps are: 1) Acknowledge the problem and thank the customer for bringing it to your attention. 2) Apologize for the problem. 3) Fix it or discuss the resolution. 4) Have an attitude of ownership. 5) Act with urgency.