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3 Customer Service Training Secrets You’ll Wish You’d Known 5 Years Ago

Ecrion

Every year, businesses lose over $75 billion in potential revenue thanks to one thing: poor customer service. And while studies show that about 1 out of every 26 customers complain about poor customer service, over 90% of those dissatisfied customers simply stop working with your business — and never come back.

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Customer Service Training: Empowering A Service Mindset

Integrity Solutions

It’s never been more important to understand your customers and what they value. It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses.

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Three Customer Service Lessons from a World Traveler?

ShepHyken

I’m always looking for good customer service stories that teach or remind us about creating an amazing customer experience. There are at least three lessons we can learn from this story: Laziness: That should never be an excuse for providing poor customer service. Put the right people on the front line.

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Would You Fight to Make Your Customers Happy?

ShepHyken

I was on a customer support call with a software company and their rep said, “I’ll need to talk to my manager. This is the customer service rep I want to talk to every time I call the company. When it comes to customer service, I’m in alignment with the second definition. Bad service has no place in any company.

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Best Practices for Meeting (and Exceeding) Customer Needs

Stella Connect

There are some brands that seem to just get it, that understand customer wants and needs and are able to meet and exceed those expectations in the moment, at any given moment in time. . And what sets these customer-centric leaders apart from the rest? 4 Strategies for Meeting and Exceeding Customer Needs. #1:

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Bad Customer Service Isn’t the Problem. A Bad Culture Is the Problem

ShepHyken

More and more people are complaining about bad customer service. The demand for better service continues to grow, as evidenced in our customer experience research (2022 Achieving Customer Amazement study sponsored by Amazon Web Services). It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service.

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Here’s a New Word: Skimpflation

ShepHyken

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.