Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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Help.com

OCTOBER 13, 2014

A customer-centered company culture is overwhelmingly resistant to being knocked off by your competition. At Apple, insiders credit much of the company’s success in retailing to the cultural fit Apple looks for and inspires in its personnel. That service is based on a corporate culture.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Many companies that claim to offer good customer service in reality are grounded in an operations’ mentality with rules and policies that allow for little flexibility, preventing them from rising above anything more than average or satisfactory. The companies that really understand customer service have a different focus.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? Creating and sustaining a customer-centric culture was the subject of a recent podcast. The first one was, “We put customers first.”. But guess what?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant … Continue reading → The post 6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long, the waits to get in became longer.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. America’s Best Customer Service Companies by Newsweek. My Comment: We start off this week with Newsweek’s list of America’s BEST customer service companies. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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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. Adam Toporek.

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Vonage

MARCH 6, 2017

Along those lines, I want you to come up with a customer service promise. For some companies, their tagline is their customer service promise. For example, Zappos.com’s tagline is Powered by Service. Three words that exhibit a commitment to the customer. Sometimes that doubles as a brand promise.

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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. Adam Toporek.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond. by Tracey Ruff.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The processes you have internally reflect on the experience you provide the customer. . Last time, I explained two of the nine areas, People and Culture. This time, I am tackling three more including, Customer Strategy, Marketing, and Customer Expectations. . Customer Strategy. Marketing and Branding.

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Customers That Stick

MAY 22, 2015

We wish that changing a customer service culture could be like turning a Jet Ski®. We all wish that changing a customer service culture happened that way. Changing a a customer service culture, particularly in a large organization, is more akin to turning around a container ship.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer service as a differentiator. , Roy Atkinson shares this wonderful insight, "Tony Hsieh and his approach to customer service and CX impacted me and the industry in a big way. When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. You have no definition of what your culture is for the organization.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 22, 2019

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 11, 2020

There’s never been a better time to step up to more transformative culture change — to increase transparency and shift the culture with a greater focus on customers, employees and the community. The financial services industry has been through its fair share of turmoil in recent years. By Bob McCarthy.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

that end, we’ve curated a customer service-centric podcast list for you to peruse and enjoy. Check out our favorite customer service podcasts, or keep reading for some entertaining podcast history. A treasure trove of retail, brand, and customer service information is ready and waiting for your ears.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The first week of October is both Customer Service Week and the week of CX Day! This week of celebrating success through CX and better customer service is an important reminder that we all serve a role in this. But customer service has a special place in the way a customer feels about your brand!

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 6, 2017

Service culture is the holy grail for many organizations. It’s the secret sauce of those companies we hold up as the role models of customer-centricity. Companies like Rackspace or Safelite are well-known disruptors in their industries simply because they focus like crazy on their customers. We can ALL do this.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

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Provide Support

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Well trained and friendly employees will always provide high quality customer service, but how to achieve this? The task of creating a customer focused culture is not as easy as it seems to be. There are always a lot of obstacles which prevent your customer service from being perfect. Read more.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Are competing customer retention cultures crippling your organization or association? First, competing customer retention cultures are sustained within traditional departmental silos and business models. My One Millimeter Mindset blog post, “ Do Our Professional Labels create Positive Customer Experiences?

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In a world where customers have more options available to them — and more ways to vent frustrations publicly — you can’t afford to drop the ball on excellent customer service. Last week was National Customer Service Week , an annual — and now global — event devoted to celebrating the people who make customer service happen.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 11, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. My Comment: When it comes to customer service, I believe everyone must be properly trained – not just the front-line/customer-facing employees. Seth’s Blog) It’s not a word, but perhaps it should be.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How to Increase Customer Loyalty: 5 Customer Retention Strategies by Christopher Hutchens. The New Qualities of Customer Service Excellence by Denyse Drummond-Dunn. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer service as a differentiator. , Roy Atkinson shares this wonderful insight, "Tony Hsieh and his approach to customer service and CX impacted me and the industry in a big way. When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony.

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Vonage

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

And that is what brings me to the point: Friendly customer service is contagious. Just like the old saying, “Enthusiasm is contagious”, I would extend that to customer service as well. The lesson is this: Just one friendly, outgoing, customer-focused employee can raise the bar for everyone.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Leaders of all types of organizations began to walk the talk around improving their customer experience. We know they craved information which helped them take action and get results, and that’s what our blog is all about. What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? Customer Experience is…What, Exactly?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 18, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Tracking Customer Experience? The Drum) Ask any brand to rate their customer experience on a scale of one to 10 and most will probably choose a high number. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Benny Tjia shares lessons learned from the hospitality industry about creating a customer focused culture. It was roughly about three years ago when I started developing Bornevia, a customer service help desk software, along with my team.

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Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. I wanted to share the tactics and tools I teach in my speeches, as well as what my team teaches in our customer service workshops. Customer service is not a department. Nowadays, most people search for information online.

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 10, 2018

These 5 little One Millimeter Mindset workplace collaboration blog posts wrap your brain around the notion that collaboration no longer is a “nice to have” soft skill. And creating remarkable customer-focused experiences. As you read these blogs, do a little victory lap. Enjoy this blog post? Subscribe to my blog.

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Michel Falcon Experience

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Sometime today or tomorrow you’re going to receive bad customer service from a company that you do business with. Immediately you will feel the effects of bad customer service. These companies are focused on customer acquisition through PPC, Facebook ads, expensive sales seminars, influencer marketing and more.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Does our organization engage in a couch potato storytelling culture? A couch potato storytelling culture is self-focused. There are a number of new books out, currently, which discuss how our organization’s stories make our products and services (not even our people) the heroines of the day. We know the plot.

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