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Free Customer Service Training for your Employees / AA Cut 600+ customer facing employees To Improve Customer Service / Your Company’s Biggest Expense / United Airlines Enforcing Flight Attendants Engagement

The DiJulius Group

Your Company’s Biggest Expense is Unhappy Customers What is a better investment—advertising or customer service training? One study showed that organizations worldwide spend $500 billion per year on advertising compared to only $9 billion on customer service training. That’s a pretty big disparity.

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How to Handle Lost Luggage: A Lesson From the Airlines

ShepHyken

I’m not sure if there is a term for this phobia, but I have the fear of airlines losing my luggage. My memory of the few times my luggage was lost by the airlines includes waiting until I’m the last guy standing at the baggage carousel. Even the airline might not know where it is. In some cases, customers are happy to come back.

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Customer Service Training: When you’re done… you’re not done!

ShepHyken

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. So, I took a few minutes to talk to several people about how they were trained. It happens all the time. She was amazing.

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Ford Versus Ferrari: A Lesson in Customer Experience?

ShepHyken

Functionality versus customer experience: Do they belong together? And both dealerships – Ford and Ferrari – provide stellar customer service. While both may appreciate a good customer experience, one wants a different product experience.   Here’s another example. The Ford costs about $25,000. The answer is simple.

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Personalizing the Customer Experience Is a Competitive Differentiator

ShepHyken

I recently released my 2021 Achieving Customer Amazement research. and asked them numerous questions about topics related to customer service, customer experience, loyalty, reviews, and more. If I had to book a flight on an airline, why would I choose one over another? So, how well do you know your customers?

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It’s Not Really Free Delivery!

ShepHyken

But if the company leaders know how much they can give away without losing money and incorporate it into a competitive price, they may have a value proposition that gets and keeps customers. Southwest Airlines is the perfect example of this. It markets the heck out of Two Bags Fly Free®. On the contrary, I’m a huge fan of free.

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How to use customer service training videos to improve your business

ViiBE Blog

What is a customer service training video? Some people are a natural fit for customer service. Still, not everyone has the knack for anticipating customer needs and maintaining a professional composure even in stressful scenarios. How do you teach good customer service?