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Guest Blog: Customer Service Training Ideas to Help Build Brand Advocacy

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Kristin Erikson writes shares great customer service training tips and ideas that will help your company build brand advocacy. Remember customer service training is not something you di, it’s something you do. – Shep Hyken. What is brand advocacy?

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Three Customer Service and CX Metrics Every Employee Needs to Understand

ShepHyken

Many of you who read my articles or watch my videos may not have jobs related to customer service or CX measurement, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to what I’m about to share. It’s right out of my book I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers To Come Back Again and Again. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 22, 2024

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Ways to Scale up Convenient CX for Modern Customers by NICE (NICE) The easier things are for your customers, the better they are for your organization. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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“We Deliver Amazing Customer Service”: The Difference Between Perception and Reality

ShepHyken

When it comes to customer service and customer experience (CX), there is a difference between perception and reality. First, how we think our customers perceive our customer service and CX is often not the reality. They should learn firsthand what it’s like to be a customer. It’s just our perception.

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How to Measure Customer Retention

ShepHyken

Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels. According to Zendesk , the customer retention rate measures the number of customers a company continues to do business with over a given period of time.

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Listen for the right words to measure customer service

Vonage

You can tell a lot about a company and its commitment to customers in the words employees use. Open your ears and you will find it’s easier to measure customer service levels than you might think. Well, as a personal favor, I’ll try to give you a call, but we don’t usually do this for customers.”. Your Service.

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The Most Important Measurement In Business

ShepHyken

A few years back I wrote about the idea of measuring customer satisfaction versus customer behavior. Today’s lesson is about the exciting topic of measurement and data. Business management guru Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”. So, what should we be measuring? You know it is!