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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 29, 2024

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You can’t ignore the power of personalization, and more companies recognize this valuable strategy. Loyalty and self-service round out the four. 10 Ways to Nurture Customer Confidence by Katie Navarra (The Ascent) Customer confidence drives sales and supports long-lasting loyalty among customers.

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A Lesson from Michelangelo: Details Matter

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Maybe you’re brainstorming a new product or coming up with a new strategy. It’s usually just “little things” – details that often are almost unnoticed – that give our customers confidence and help create customer amazement. . They are also important to our customers, whether they know it or not.

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Make Your Customer Smarter: Create an Educational Experience

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Creating an educational experience is a powerful customer experience strategy. Just make your customers smarter. . Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times, bestselling business author. It’s simple. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Four Customer Service Lessons from a Stevie Award Winner

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Build trust by “down-selling” the customer. This is a very customer focused strategy. Most companies try and find ways to add on to a sale or “up-sell” a customer to something more expensive. This creates trust and confidence with their customers. Have a guarantee that creates customer confidence.

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Why You Shouldn’t Yell at Customer Service Agents – And More

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Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops at www.Hyken.com.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of May 27, 2019

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Yet customers also want to enjoy a digital experience with little or no friction. As customers use their smartphones for more and more business, it is incumbent to give customers confidence that they are dealing with safe and secure companies. Ten Best Practices for Boosting Employee Engagement by CXAPP.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of June 24, 2019

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My Comment: If you want customers to come back, they must have confidence that the experience they have with you will be consistent and predictable. This article focuses on one of the key strategies in driving customer confidence, and that’s creating trust. Numbers one, two and four are non-negotiable.