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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

To put it simply: focus on your holistic customer experience design before you add new channels. Each channel must prioritize issue resolution and promote customer confidence rather than get thrown into the mix as a “more is better” afterthought. Bolting on new channels with an ad-hoc approach is not the answer. Got 15 minutes?

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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. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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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. This means the customer service professional must develop a response plan.

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

ShepHyken

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. My Comment: One of the best ways to create customer confidence is by creating a consistent customer experience.

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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. For information contact or www.hyken.com.

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

ShepHyken

The majority of CX practitioners in our research believe their organizations take a sensible approach towards training, ensuring that all employees receive regular information security coaching. It is especially encouraging to see the 23 percent of respondents who feel that teams should receive more frequent training.

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What Does Perfect Service Recovery Look Like?

ShepHyken

For those that haven’t been following, the five-steps are: 1) Acknowledge the problem and thank the customer for bringing it to your attention. Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. 2) Apologize for the problem. 5) Act with urgency.