CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In the quest to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty, it is helpful to consider the ‘cultural habits’ of successful service organizations, such as: Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and Amazon. Southwest Airlines began at Love Field in Dallas.

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C3Centricity

APRIL 17, 2018

Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days.

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Strategy Customer Centricity Innovation Airlines 189

Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2021

Okay… now, feel free to refer to that as you read on, because I’m not trying to say that engagement isn’t fundamental; in fact, it’s a bedrock necessity if you’re going to provide a good Customer experience that you first ensure you are providing a good employee experience. For example, while I’m sure Zappos!

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ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

I often tell people how rare I think it is for companies to demonstrate ‘customer empathy’ on a consistent basis. There are many reasons why this is the case – organisational culture being the predominant one. Failure to display customer empathy (which can often be seen as the application of common sense!)

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ShepHyken

MAY 4, 2022

I was on a flight to a city I can’t remember, but what I do remember was the wonderful flight attendant, Bailee from American Airlines, who enthusiastically greeted me with a smile and said, “I like that hat!” She was the perfect frontliner for American Airlines – or for that matter, any type of business. . No faking it.

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Airlines Customer Service Training Course Engagement 127

ShepHyken

MAY 31, 2017

I’m often asked, “How many people in an organization does it take to create a culture focused on Customer Amazement?” I wrote about this in my book The Cult of the Customer (Wiley 2008), and the example I used was that of an airline employee. Maybe your organization is truly customer-focused.

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Airlines Customer Focused Customer Service Training Culture 82

ijgolding

AUGUST 12, 2018

Over time, several words have been used to describe the organisational focus on customers. They include: Customer Experience. Customer Focus. Customer Centricity. Customer Service. Customer Success. Customer Outcomes. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Management. Nothing at all!

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Customer Journeys Customers Airlines Social Media 185

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. How good is your company’s internal customer experience? McKinsey & Company) To excel with customers, frontline employees need high-level service from core support functions. My Comment: What United Airlines scandal!

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Customer Service Airlines Chatbots Resources 95

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Do customers really want to take your survey? To Improve Customer Experience, Start With Morale, Not Technology, Feds Say by Tom Shoop. Customer Retention Made Easy by Samir Palnitkar. You may even laugh.

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Customer Service Airlines Employee Engagement Rewards Programs 80

ijgolding

JANUARY 19, 2016

Customer Experience – as a concept…. However, it is true that most of the best examples – the earliest examples – of Customer Experience being deployed as a core element of business strategy was very much a US led phenomenon. as an idea…. as a principle… as a profession… – it all started in the US. without even knowing it!!!

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As a customer, you interact with good people who don’t seem to deliver great customer service. They are nice, even knowledgeable, but they don’t seem to be what I call customer focused. I asked them what kind of customer service training they received from the companies they worked for. It happens all the time.

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Customer Service Training Training Customer Service Airlines 98

ShepHyken

MAY 8, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. 10 Content Marketing and Customer Experience All-Stars by James A. FCR) I recently flew on one of the major airlines and observed many opportunities for improvement (a phrase we like to use in contact centers). What do you think?

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Customer Service Airlines Contact Center Conference 81

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. On a recent flight, the author of this article met “Captain Adams,” who not only flew the plane but set the culture, empowered the crew and was the perfect example of a leader focused on the customer experience.

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Customer Service Retail Airlines Social Media 101

ShepHyken

AUGUST 28, 2018

Why (and How) to Put Your Customers at the Center of Your Decisions. Shep Hyken sits down with his close friend, colleague and customer service expert Buddy Rice. They discussed how he helped Delta Airlines with their customer service culture, what customers are really looking for, and the RATER service quality model. ? ?.

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Airlines Leadership Industry Training 69

ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Improve customer loyalty and retention by focusing on relationships by Sarah Olson. Zendesk) Read on for customer retention strategies and tips to build long-term relationships that improve your customer loyalty.

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Customer Service Loyalty Airlines Loyalty Programs 75

ShepHyken

MAY 22, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. 5 Fun and Inexpensive Customer Appreciation Ideas by Aja McClanahan. Fundera) Customer appreciation doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. 7 Powerful Customer Service Phone Tips by Pascal van Opzeeland.

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Customer Service Airlines Self Service Tips 82

Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

At Kayako, we do our best to understand not just our customers’ needs, but their customers’ needs, as well. Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences.

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Customer Centricity Self Service Trends Customer Experience 208

ShepHyken

MAY 15, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. A Look at Southwest Airlines 50 Years Later by Joseph Guinto. (D D CEO) Half a century after its incorporation papers were filed, the Dallas-based carrier is working harder than ever to reinforce its unique corporate culture. (D

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Customer Service Airlines eBook Loyalty 69

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 28, 2017

Several customer experience case studies confirmed this idea at Medallia’s Experience 2017 conference. They are valuable reminders of how customers are people, and they respond best to people who understand their situation, and better yet, understand how important their roles are in delivering an exceptional experience.

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ProProfs Chat

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

companies lose more than $62 billion due to poor customer service. Bad customer service has become a major business problem today. Following a trip made from Chicago to Paris, Hasan Syed, one of the customers, was frustrated at British Airways’ inability to tackle the issue of lost luggage. Improves Customer Retention Rate.

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Customer Service Gamification Airlines Net Promoter Score 68

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2016

What makes this question so profound, and so pivotal, in customer experience optimization today is that every aspect of value delivery is at play. More than a buzzword, “being human,” especially in brand-building and leveraging customer experiences and relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Leadership Culture 84

ClearAction

JULY 29, 2018

Customer Engagement is an Enterprise-wide Imperative Lynn Hunsaker. Does customer engagement rely solely on Marketing, Sales, Success or Service strategies? When the CEO of Air New Zealand made the mindset shift replacing We Fly Planes with We Fly People 1 , the whole company began to focus on empowering customer engagement.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 48

Service Untitled

APRIL 8, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Training, knowledge, and skills are the objective standards and basics of customer service agents, but equally as important for the complete package is the attitude which can ultimately make or break the front lines of one’s business.

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Customer Focused Customer Service Representative Policies Training 41

ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2016

Every once in a while I jokingly will say the motto of a company who gives me bad customer service is: We’re not happy until you’re not happy. Other industries, such as the airlines and cell phone service providers are doing their best to improve. First, you have to know that customer’s expectations are higher than ever.

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Airlines Policies Government Guidelines 48

Customer Alignment

AUGUST 15, 2017

The poor management of these areas is probably the airline customers’ biggest pain point. Even if disruption is sometimes unavoidable; airports, airlines and all other parties involved in the travel process shouldn’t be excused from taking responsibility and ownership of the problem from the customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Company Banking 60

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. My Comment: The contact center can be the focus of how a customer rates a company’s customer service. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Journeys Customer Service Contact Center Culture 48

ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you were to answer a question, “What is that one thing that customers hate the most? . Customers don’t want to go out of their comfort zone to solve their own problems. So what can you do to provide a smooth and delightful experience to customers throughout their journey? But what is customer centricity ?

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Knowledge Base Effort Score 96

Kustomer

MAY 28, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of Customer Service Secrets , Blake Morgan joins Gabe Larsen to discuss the importance of focusing on the customer and its role in attracting more customers. She is also the author of The Customer of the Future and hosts her own podcast titled “The Modern Customer.”

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Culture Customers Competitive Advantage Innovation 52

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

What is Customer Experience Ecosystem? Recent snafus caused by faulty customer experience ecosystem management include United Airlines dragging a paying customer out of his seat and off the plane per a random drawing of passengers to make room for a flight crew to fly on that overbooked flight. Lynn Hunsaker.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. World’s 3 MOST Customer Centric Companies: How do they do it!! Customer Guru) Here are our top three picks for the most customer centric companies and some lessons on how they manage to be customer-centric despite their size and diversity.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Centricity Chatbots 78

West Monroe

JUNE 8, 2018

CS Week is the premier annual educational and customer service conference serving electric, gas, and water/wastewater utility professionals globally. I attended CS Week a few years ago, and the big talk then was how “rate payers are now our customers, and they are demanding improved service.”

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

Fatal flaws in customer experience (CX) foretell the demise of many companies. These and other widely available studies demonstrate the power of a superb customer experience: According to Harvard Business Review’s Employ­ee-Customer-Profit Chain, a 1.3% Bain & Co. Bain & Co. Frontline Fanatics. Ignorance Is Bliss.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

Without fear of (much) argument, it’s a fair statement that all companies want, and try to generate and achieve, optimum loyalty from their customer base. They should want this because study after study shows the financial rewards of having loyal customers. Customer loyalty programs are especially popular among retailers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 23, 2019

Naturally, I shared with this group of leaders the connections between learning, development, training, and hiring to customer experience. We are requesting teams build bridges and cooperate on behalf of the customer experience. Customer Focus Means Cooperation, Even with Competition. Watch: CX Live Highlights.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

You need a plan and you need to take baby steps,” said Sue Martin Homes , Global VP of Customer Service at Newegg , the leading tech-focused e-retailer in North America. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player. Do you have “talk time” countdown timers in your customer service centers?

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Customer Focused Multi-Channel How To e-support 129

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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