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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? This exercise, as simple as it sounds, was her way of creating a process improvement initiative that has been wildly successful.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Identify: If you haven’t already done a journey map of what your customers experience as they do business with you, it’s time to do it. The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.”

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The Customer Service Ritual that Takes Place at Every Meeting

ShepHyken

It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. We have clients that have been doing this exercise for years. As mentioned, for us it’s customer service.

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The Difference Between Customer Focus and… NOT

ShepHyken

His plea was, “We are so NOT customer-focused, and we need to be!” He then shared what may be one of the most crystal-clear examples of the difference between a company that is customer focused and one that isn’t. Whether you’re customer-focused or not, this exercise is helpful.

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Does Your Business Pass the Customer Service Fitness Test?

Who's Your Gladys?

Customer service is like exercise – do it right, and you see results. If it was, everyone would have six-pack abs and a stellar customer-focused culture. Want to pass the customer focus fitness test? The post Does Your Business Pass the Customer Service Fitness Test? It’s simple.

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The One Thing We Must Do to Create a Customer Focused Culture

ShepHyken

To kick off the start of 2017 I could share my “Top Seventeen Ways to Deliver Great Customer Service in 2017.” One of the most important ways to improve customer service is to make sure that everyone in an organization (company) is in alignment with the customer service and/or experience vision.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 3-14-2022

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Using Customer Journey Maps and Jobs to Be Done for a Better Customer Experience by Tobias Komischke. If you haven’t done this exercise before, it’s time. Here are my top five picks from last week.