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Customer Service Is a Team Sport

ShepHyken

The employees recognized that customer service is a team sport. It’s everyone’s job to make sure the customers leave happy. Unfortunately, I’ve also witnessed the opposite at a restaurant. The second is to take care of the customer. I liked what I was seeing. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken

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We Work Hard to Make It Look Easy

ShepHyken

Whether it’s sports, entertainment, or business, some people are so good that what they do looks easy. I Googled the quote to find out who to attribute it to and found numerous variations: In sports, Ken Griffey Jr., They made your experience enjoyable and easy. Isn’t that what the best people do?

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Make the Complicated Simple

ShepHyken

I quoted several people from sports, entertainment and business. When I’m asked to give a customer experience keynote speech , one of the points I like to make is the importance of simplifying the complicated. And we must do the same in business. Customers don’t want or like complication, confusion, or friction.

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Playing to Win in Customer Service

ShepHyken

So, what does this have to do with business, specifically customer service and CX? Plenty! In any team sport, the goal is to win. In the customer service world, we should create a “game plan” to deliver an experience that is perfect, never requiring a customer to reach out to us because of problems.

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This is our time for a CX Revolution!

Bill Quiseng

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies that explain customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, or innovative speed technologies among others. Let’s be revolutionary to transform CX Into CXM, customer service to customer CARE, and customer service training to an education in customer CARE or customer CARE University.

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Sometimes Customers Are Just Having a Bad Day

ShepHyken

No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. However, I didn’t have the same experience. Other customers are very nice people just having a bad day.

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Put Some Fun Into Serious Business

ShepHyken

The other day I was talking to my friend and fellow customer experience (CX) expert, Dan Gingiss. Pretty boring information, but it’s important to share with customers. Recently, one of our Shepard Letter subscribers shared an example of what they use instead of the traditional music when a customer is put on hold.

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