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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 6-13-2022

ShepHyken

In 2009 only 18% of the value of the top 100 brands was in subscriptions. Customer Experience Is Getting Worse by Katie Deighton. The Wall Street Journal) The quality of customer experience offered by consumer-facing brands and government agencies declined in the year through April 2022. This grew to 29% by 2018.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 8, 2021

ShepHyken

Next generation is the new generation in customer experience by Carlos Lopez-Abadia. Fast Company) As we witnessed in the 2009 downturn, if companies react quickly and organize themselves well, there are many opportunities to be gained from this crisis. My Comment: How will customer experience change in the near future?

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of August 7, 2023

ShepHyken

Customer Retention Statistics – the Ultimate Collection for Small Business by Matt Mansfield (Small Business Trends) Customer is strategic efforts a business makes to keep existing customers engaged and loyal over time. remains unchanged since 2009 while inflation reached 6.2% as of 2023 and minimum federal wage of $7.25

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Who Owns Customer Service?

ShepHyken

I thought to myself that it would be cool for my brand to own this domain. Well, it was expensive, at least by my standards… unless I wanted to have an asset that would brand me to customer service forever. That made me start thinking of the brands that would love to have their name synonymous with CustomerService.com.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of May 1, 2023

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. According to the research, since 2009, a stock portfolio of the publicly traded brands in Siegel+Gale’s research outperformed every major index with a return of 1,841%. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 7-11-2022

ShepHyken

It’s part of the customer experience. Are you delivering information that adds value to customers and enhances their experience with your brand? The Retention Crisis: Should We Be Treating Employees More Like Customers? Go to The Customer Focus to learn more about our customer service training programs.

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The Top 4 Customer Service and Performance Management Trends to Look for in 2018

Stella Connect

In recent years, we’ve seen a major shift in brands’ approaches to customer service delivery and contact center performance management. What will brands’ biggest concerns be in 2018? In the eyes of consumers, the gap between excellent customer service providers and everyone else continues to widen.