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

ShepHyken

My Comment: I’ve been studying how different brands are creating successful loyalty programs. While the article focuses on retail (especially e-commerce), anyone from any type of company (B2B and B2C) that has “VIP customers” will want to read this article. My Comment: Let’s move away from loyalty programs but stay with trends.

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I’ll Be Back! The Phrase We All Want Our Customers To Say

Beyond Philosophy

On a recent podcast, we hosted speaker and author Shep Hyken, one of the most influential voices in Customer Experience today. His new book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , has some fantastic ideas on building customer loyalty. . Something that has changed is digitization.

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Prep for the UK Field Service Summit—Review Management Software Benefits

Alliance by IFS

A delightful customer experience includes: Short delivery lead time , because customers don’t like to be kept waiting. Robust and quick customer support , because customers want questions answered and problems solved ASAP. Scripting and questions trees, so your representatives can efficiently manage customer interactions.

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Best Tips to Improve Customer Service This Holiday Season

ProProfs Chat

Respond or risk a poor customer experience. Understand that interactions with the company’s website largely drive the customer experience. Empower your customers to self-serve. Diane Magers CEO, Customer Experience Professionals Association. This goes for chat or email as well. Tweet this.

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

ShepHyken

Goal: Improve Customer Loyalty. The best policies and procedures do not compel agents to say no to certain customers. Whether this involves altering the policy or empowering agents to ignore the terms in certain situations, the move will result in more harmonious interactions – and more loyal customers.

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The 5 Biggest Mistakes in SMB Online Service

Help Scout

Back in the old days, customer service meant talking face to face with people who came into your storefront. Real-life interactions were the original support conversations, and doing customer service this way is something people have done forever. Then in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

The good news, according to Gartner insight, is that channel switching isn’t actually hurting customer loyalty. As long as there’s responsive feedback (more on this below) and eventual resolution, they’re happy no matter which channels they interact with. We’ve known for years that personalization breeds loyalty.