Mon.Jul 03, 2017

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Generate Repeat Business by Providing Additional Information: Guest Post by Richard Shapiro

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Without repeat business , your company will cease to exist. One of the easiest ways to generate repeat business is to answer your customer’s questions and provide additional information. When a customer asks a question, sales associates are presented with an opportunity to build a relationship with someone who is fully engaged in the purchasing process.

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Do All Your Touch Points Need to be Perfect?

Steve DiGioia

or, does allowing a little "customer pain" actually help? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Pursuing excellence, customer centricity and continuous improvement are obsolete; so says Sampson Lee in his 2015 article “ Turn Upside Down How PAIN is Perceived in Innovating CX and Brand Management”. I am glad to say that I haven’t really had many bad customer service experiences, just some that fell short of expectations or I was disappointed in.

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Miss the Improvements in NPS? It’s Time for THIS

Beyond Philosophy

For many organizations, the initial improvements in Customer Experience have long since passed. The early gains in Net Promoter Score (NPS) have faded into legend and the NPS now languishes in a plateau, quarter after quarter. Many organizations are scratching their heads wondering, “What now? However, they would be better off asking, “What’s next?”.

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How Managers Can Create a Safe Shopping Experience for Customers

Win the Customer

Even though it doesn’t it may seem like every day, a new mass crime takes place in a public area. The frequency and severity of these events has made many people feel scared about routine activities, such as going shopping. As the manager of a store, you can use these four tips to create a safe shopping experience for your customers. Install Video Monitoring and Metal Detection Systems.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Customers Love Talking About Great Service

CSM Magazine

New research shows that customers are just as likely to share a positive experience as a negative one. Read on to learn more. Customer service professionals could be forgiven for thinking that their efforts to ensure top-quality assistance go largely unnoticed; we have a tendency to assume bad experiences have a more lasting impact on customers, and that a good customer experience is quickly forgotten.

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Would You Like Manners with That?

CSM Magazine

‘Canity’ helping overcome bad customer service. A phone call from entrepreneur and customer service guru Kym Illman to his airline carrier recently ended in him providing the unwitting call centre staff member with some on-the-spot training in phone skills. Messages On Hold and Canity Head, Kym Illman. As founder and head of voice branding company Messages On Hold , it’s something the Adelaide-born former disc jockey is well qualified to provide advice on.

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5 Leading CX Influencers Sharing their Secrets

Peter Lavers

The UK Customer Experience Awards asked the advice of Peter Lavers and four other experts regarding what’s being done wrong and right in the field of Customer Experience. Read what they said here . The post 5 Leading CX Influencers Sharing their Secrets appeared first on Think CX.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Drive Customer Loyalty?

CSM Magazine

If you are greeted by name next time you enter your favorite store, don’t worry, it is not a prank, you might be witnessing AI at work. The efforts companies make to customize the experience are triggered by the need to secure existing clients and attract new ones by positive word of mouth. Brand loyalty is hard earned and easily shattered by just ignoring a tweet.

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Tesco insect in raspberries!

Helen Dewdney

Time for a Tesco complaint story. Well would be a shame not to wouldn’t it? For those new here see History with Tesco ! So, there I was down at my Mum’s and she bought some raspberries and cream. She did this little shriek when she nearly put some sort of flying insect thing in her mouth ‘cos it was stuck on a raspberry. Now, given that I once found an insect in Tesco rice a few years back and how Tesco dealt with it – I refused to take back to the store as not knowing if

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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The Automated Solution Your Customer Service Employees Will Actually Welcome

CSM Magazine

Lately it feels like a precarious time to be a customer service employee. Thanks to the millennial influence, customers are turning to digital self-service tools more than ever, and Artificial Intelligence is developing to the point where chatbots and chatting humans are becoming interchangeable (sad face emoji). If there’s a pushback on automated customer service solutions from customer service agents, it’s a pretty understandable shove.

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5 Secrets to Mind-Blowing Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Cindy Solomon invites you to check out these five secrets to creating a mind-blowing service culture. Secret 1: Know who your real competition is. Surprise! It’s actually not the guy down the street doing the same thing as you are. Sorry, it’s worse: It’s every other company that’s offering rock star customer service. For me, one of those “gold standard” companies is Amazon.

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Respect & Courtesy: Finding out What They Mean to Customers and Companies

CSM Magazine

What exactly is respect and how does it differ from courtesy? Find out in this article by Dr Laura Olcelli and Robert Ace. Friday, 4 p.m. We are in our usual training room. Everybody’s excited the working week is coming to an end. The moment we mention the topic of our current research and ask our group to complete a brief questionnaire, several delegates inevitably begin humming the popular 1967 tune: “R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Find out what it means to me”.

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