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The Day I Became a Customer Service Expert and Two Important Lessons?

ShepHyken

Just out of college I started my career as a customer service expert. It was a chosen profession that had its roots in something that happened to me when I was younger, an event that caused me to become obsessed with customer service. . I was working at a self-service gas station. The right thing to do.

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Excellent Customer Service Is Your Company’s Secret Weapon

Integrity Solutions

In a world where customers have more options available to them — and more ways to vent frustrations publicly — you can’t afford to drop the ball on excellent customer service. Last week was National Customer Service Week , an annual — and now global — event devoted to celebrating the people who make customer service happen.

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Create a Selfie Experience

ShepHyken

The Selfie Experience is easy to create when you are in an events business, such as a Broadway show or sporting event. But it’s not about an event. It’s about creating an experience that is so good the customer wants a memento, in this case, a photograph. Make it so compelling that they want to take a picture of it.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 31, 2017

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. My Comment: My friends at Customer Gauge have come out with another NPS (Net Promoter Score) post featuring benchmarks from the Tech industry. Great insights from Customer Gauge. They created an “event.”

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of June 4, 2018

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Stop Trying to ‘Delight’ Customers, Says CX Expert Paul Greenberg by Noreen Seebacher. How Companies Can Identify Racial and Gender Bias in Their Customer Service by Alexandra C. Feldberg & Tami Kim.

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A Small but Powerful Surprise

ShepHyken

My friend and fellow professional speaker George Walther was returning from an event where he received an incredible award, Legend of the Speaking Profession. If a TSA employee inspecting luggage can surprise a passenger, it shouldn’t be hard for you to find ways to deliver small surprises to your customers. .

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Employees Love the Story, Too

ShepHyken

This could be at a weekly team meeting or even a quarterly event. Everyone loves the story—both your customers and your employees! Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. His question was, “Should they go to everyone in the company or just leadership?