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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-3-2021

ShepHyken

(Total Retail) Successful e-commerce customer experience will be personally connected, inspiring and entertaining, video-based, and feel much more “human.”. My Comment: You can’t automate a customer relationship. An entertaining experience drives higher engagement. An entertaining experience drives higher engagement.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 4, 2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Experience Tips and Advice from the Pros During Disruption by Srijana Angdembey. The author has taken the titles of many of our favorite 80’s songs and worked them into this entertaining post.

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Two Ridiculous Customer Service Debacles and What We Can Learn From Them

ShepHyken

territories, such as Puerto Rico. From these stories – and there are plenty more just like them – here are a few lessons we can take away: Customer Service Training: Many problems can be avoided with good customer service training. mainland and U.S. There are more lessons and examples like these.

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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. He shared how he’s seen businesses take something that is either really boring or very serious—or both—and make them entertaining. Some companies get creative and have announcements or share tips on how to use their products.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-2-2021

ShepHyken

(Total Retail) Successful e-commerce customer experience will be personally connected, inspiring and entertaining, video-based, and feel much more “human.”. My Comment: You can’t automate a customer relationship. An entertaining experience drives higher engagement. An entertaining experience drives higher engagement.

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The Customer Service Experience Doesn’t Begin with the Greeting

ShepHyken

In the world of show business and live entertainment, every act has an “opening.”. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs, go to www.thecustomerfocus.com.

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Set a customer service culture with three steps to welcome

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A British gentleman working in global logistics, his American entertainer wife who recently became a mother, an Australian event coordinator and me. We talked about the service we received at retail stores, banks, restaurants, hotels and airlines around the world. Your Service” books and founder of UP! Your Service.

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