ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer service expert Chip Bell sets the stage with a story. How many of your employees haven’t experienced what it’s like to be a customer of yours? Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 6, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. They could grow 10x faster, however, their obsession with their operational excellence, customer experience, and internal culture will not allow them to compromise any of those for more units and higher sales. I love his articles.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Hotels Loyalty 67

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 15, 2017

Annette Höher-Bäuerle went from being internal legal counsel at the Thomas Cook Group to leading all of Customer Experience globally. Her skills and long tenure with the company led her to use agile design thinking to prove and implement changes in the customer experience — to gain traction and drive real sustainable improvement.

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Travel Industry Hotels Customer Journeys 204

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Ways Digital Evolution Has Changed Customers’ Ideas About Patience by Scott Clark. How has the ongoing digital evolution impacted how customers view patience today? Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Service Hospitality Hotels 67

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? How good your customer service is. My customers would never have to wait on hold. .

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Hotels Customer Service Training Retail Financial 168

ShepHyken

JULY 12, 2017

He made their hotel reservations, and for each hotel they planned to stop at on the way to Utah he asked, “Is your hotel dog-friendly?” But to his surprise, while checking into one of the hotels he was told there would be a $120 charge for the dogs to stay in his room. He asked if the hotel was dog-friendly.

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Hotels Customer Focused Policies Customer Service Training 98

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We received some great feedback, and it got me thinking of other ways to surprise our customers. I’m often surprised at how companies find ways to improve a customer experience with something that has nothing to do with what they sell. Certain hotels used to offer a shoe-shine service while you were asleep.

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Hotels Touchpoint Customer Service Training Tips 126

ShepHyken

APRIL 4, 2023

For most of my life – until the recent past – the customer wasn’t expected to tip. People used to tip servers at restaurants, taxi drivers, hotel staff and other traditional service-oriented businesses. Now customers are being asked to tip at auto shops, retail outlets and more.

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Tips Self Service Hotels Customer Service Training 123

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Ways to Level Up Your Customer Service in 2021 by Reuben Yonatan. Fast Company) Providing exceptional customer service is a tried and tested way for brands to stand out and succeed. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Hospitality Rewards Programs Self Service 72

ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. 10+ Times Hotels Surprised Everyone With Their Creativity by Sarune Mac. Today, however, we’d like to focus on a few hotels that decided to up their game and take hospitality to the next level. by John Walls.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The other day my friend asked me, “Is mediocrity the new customer experience?” He mentioned how he’s had to wait longer when he called customer support and that there weren’t enough cashiers at the grocery store. . The result is that companies are forced to “skimp” on the quality and service customers have come to expect.

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Poor Customer Service Hotels Customer Service Training Customer Service 147

Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Ask any traveler checking into a hotel after an exhausting business meeting, a white-knuckle flight, or a surprise marriage proposal. A bed is not just a bed.

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Hospitality Loyalty Industry Hotels 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Gift Experiences Can Create an Emotional Connection With Customers by Wise Marketer Staff. We are just heading out of the gifting season, but it’s not too late to understand the impact a gift to a customer can make.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs B2B Competitive Advantage 140

ShepHyken

JANUARY 26, 2022

It seems that almost every time I get my car worked on, call my internet provider, stay at a hotel, fly on an airline, order almost anything online, etc., When’s the last time you or your company emailed or called a customer to thank them for their feedback and tell them the changes that were being made as a result of their suggestions? .

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Survey Rewards Programs Airlines Hotels 123

ShepHyken

JULY 10, 2019

I first came across this idea in the book Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon , which I consider one of the most important books written on customer service. Because the captain had forgotten to bring his immigration documentation and had to retrieve it from his hotel. The post What Signals Are You Unintentionally Sending Your Customers?

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Hotels Customer Service Training Customers Examples 128

SurveySparrow

JUNE 30, 2023

Welcome to the captivating world of customer experience design, where we turn mundane interactions into extraordinary adventures. But, we will be unleashing our creativity to design experiences that will have your customers grinning from ear to ear. Understanding Customer Experience Design What is CX design, you ask?

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Customer Experience Design Customer Experience Effort Score Customer Journeys 52

Innovative CX

APRIL 1, 2021

The “it” is a better customer experience. A few more… A homeowner’s insurance company installs a billing system that produces inaccurate invoices for its customers but doesn’t proactively advise customers of the issue and waits for customers to call to complain. Here are a few recent examples that exemplify my point.

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Customer Experience Policies Hotels Insurance 59

ShepHyken

APRIL 3, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Customer Service Track Shines at Social Media Marketing World by Dan Gingiss. In 2016, the conference organizers added a Customer Service track to the list of 20 or so other tracks. 10 Traits of a Great Hotel Front Desk Agent by Rupesh Patel.

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Social Media Customer Service Hotels Hospitality 76

ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Clairvoyance: I Never Knew I Always Wanted This by Chip Bell. My Comment: Here is a great testimonial to the combination of a great customer experience and product. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Poor Customer Service Tips Hotels 114

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 30, 2015

Most Customer Experiences are accidents—and unfortunately, they are not always happy ones. Unless a company designs a deliberate experience that puts the Customer first and considers the Customer’s perspective, the message you send to the subconscious is rarely what you intend. When I first get to a hotel, I get settled.

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Customer Experience Hotels Airlines Exercises 60

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service Rookie Mistakes That Could Be Tarnishing Your Business Image! CustomerThink) Let’s face it, poor customer care support service can cost a business a fortune! Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Self Service Customer Centricity Video 87

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’m all for getting customer feedback. Ask customers on the way out of a store, call them on a phone or send follow-up surveys via email. The gist of that article was about getting more customers to fill out those surveys. Think about what you’re asking the customer to do when you send them a survey. But consider this.

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Survey Hotels Customer Service Training Feedback 99

ShepHyken

JULY 31, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. 10+ Times Hotels Surprised Everyone With Their Creativity by Sarune Mac. Today, however, we’d like to focus on a few hotels that decided to up their game and take hospitality to the next level. by John Walls.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Service Hotels Effort Score 51

ShepHyken

JANUARY 8, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Industry Experts Offer Up 2018 Predictions on Retail Customer Experience by Judy Mottl. My Comment: The 2018 customer service and experience predictions continue to roll in. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. 3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers by Shay Namdarian. My Comment: Let’s start this week’s top five with a short article that has three simple tips to help you better understand your customer. This is how it’s done!

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Customer Service Hospitality Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage 82

ShepHyken

JANUARY 22, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How do you keep your loyal customers? How do you keep your loyal customers? My Comment: This excellent article focuses on strategies and tactics to consider for your call center. It’s a win-win.

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Customer Service Self Service Contact Center Loyalty 48

ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2020

The Customer is Your Bottom Line. They discuss his book, Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise , and strategies for hiring the right team, building the right service vision and delivering an unparalleled customer experience. Being nice to your customer doesn’t cost anything.

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Hotels Customer Satisfaction Loyalty Leadership 64

ijgolding

JANUARY 19, 2016

Customer Experience – as a concept…. However, it is true that most of the best examples – the earliest examples – of Customer Experience being deployed as a core element of business strategy was very much a US led phenomenon. as an idea…. as a principle… as a profession… – it all started in the US.

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Airlines Customer Experience Travel Customer Centricity 120

ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 22, 2019

“Instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer,” Scott Cook. With the ever-changing scenario of business globalization, companies are thriving hard to retain their brand’s loyalty by creating cutting-edge product sales strategies. Increasing customer retention rates by 5% boost profits by 25% to 95%.

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Customer Service How To Social Media Customer Retention 101

Customer Bliss

APRIL 7, 2016

.” I’m actually not a huge fan of Uber from a customer standpoint, and I’ll be blogging about that in the next week or so — but it is hard to argue with their unicorn status or growth model, even if you think it might not necessarily last because of some issues they’re having on the customer front.

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Chief Customer Officer Leadership Hotels Connections 100

ShepHyken

MAY 16, 2018

A successful customer experience strategy is a result of the company’s culture. In other words, and I’ve said it many times before, what’s happening on the inside of the company is going to felt on the outside of the company by the customer. First, let’s talk about the customer experience. Customer support?

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Employee Experience Hotels Video Culture 96

BirdEye

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If you want to gain more customers, you need to improve the quality of reviews you have across platforms. This is where businesses are appraised, critiqued, and advocated for by customers. Here are 5 tips to get more customer reviews How does Birdeye help you get more reviews from satisfied customers?

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Ecommerce Travel Hotels Social Media 59

ShepHyken

JANUARY 24, 2018

I received a response from Nayeli Burns ( @Nayelihrc ), the concierge at Encore Event Technologies, an “in-house” event production company in hotels and resorts throughout North America. If you’ve ever been to a hotel for a conference, they are the people who set up the audio/visual support, the staging, lighting, rigging, and more.

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Hotels Conference Meeting Fashion 99

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Forever-Changed Buying Patterns Mean Rethinking Customer Loyalty by Mary Jo Yafchak. Time to pay attention and meet your customers where they are. Sharpen Technologies) 2020 didn’t cancel National Customer Service Week.

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Customer Service Hospitality Virtual Agent Loyalty 65

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Businesses across the land champion their great service and the positive experience given to their throngs of loyal customers. They tout the benefits of their product and how they tend to the specific needs, wants and desires of their customers. Keep focused on the people. Shep Hyken. Long term that can be a mistake.

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Industry Culture Metrics Customer Centricity 100

Customer Bliss

JULY 6, 2018

It gets us back to why we’re in business in the first place.” – Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels. The Make Mom Standard for How to Treat Your Customers has been on sale for a little less than a month now, and I’m immensely grateful for all of the positive reviews it’s received. What Does a Great CXM Culture Look Like?

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ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2017

I recently checked into a hotel in Chicago. Don’t make a statement to a customer you can’t deliver on. It’s a dangerous strategy. You may get the customer once, but they may not come back when they realize you didn’t keep your promise. The front desk clerk was so enthusiastic. Well, I was a little let down.

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