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Guest Blog: Do customer experience teams take cyber security risks?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Chanice Henry who writes about the importance of cyber security in providing a trustworthy experience for your customers. – Shep Hyken. Customer loyalty is built on trust. Every employee working with customer data needs to consider their treatment of data very carefully.

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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

Competitive pressures, customer expectations, and emerging technologies are some of the key factors pushing leaders to elevate and evolve their customer service approach. We often talk about omnichannel as the ultimate goal for any and every customer service solution. Listen to the audio or read the article.

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

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. 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.

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Customer Experience Strategy: Paradigm Shift!

InteractionMetrics

Companies seem inordinately invested in their customer experience (CX) strategy. They send surveys, analyze touchpoints, and build out customer personas. But an alarming paradox has emerged: Customers are more dissatisfied than ever. If you misunderstand the customer experience, any strategy to improve it will fall short.

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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. He knew that it was just a mistake.

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Guest Blog: 4 Easy Ways to Achieve Difficult Customer Contact Goals

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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How to Handle Difficult Customers Using Verbal Aikido

Myra Golden

Myra Golden Customer Service Training Highlight. Verbal Aikido: A non-agressive, highly effective strategy for handling difficult customers. Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. In short, the role of customer service now ranks as one of the 10 most stressful jobs in the U.S.

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