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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 22, 2021

ShepHyken

Here’s why the experts think empathy is the key to customer experience by Kate Rogerson. Comm100) Buzzwords come and go in the customer experience world, but while we lose our patience with most, there are some that rightfully stick around. In 2013, Forrester Research landed on one such phrase – the ‘age of the customer’.

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Loyalty Programs!?! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Loyalty Programs!!!

Beyond Philosophy

From my perspective, the second explanation is good common sense; however, the first statement is really questionable, even counterintuitive if a subordinating goal of loyalty behavior is to help drive customer-centricity. What Publix does, instead of loyalty cards, is try different alternative approaches to build sales.

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Why Customer Centricity is a Lot Like Painting by Number

PeopleMetrics

The process of painting by number mimics good customer experience strategy. First, outline your strategy for customer centricity. Similarly, customer understanding and strategy are the dark, framing lines of your customer-centric paint by number. So let’s take a look in more detail. It’s impossible.

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How is Your Business Dealing with the Paradox of Choice?

Beyond Philosophy

Wine stores play music to put their customers in a happy and relaxed mood. Research shows that classical music boosts wine sales the most, but an experiment showed that playing French or German music can have a huge boost on the sales of the wines originating from that country. 16 July 2013. 19 August 2014. <

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BOC Wins Twelfth Stevie Award for Thought Leadership in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

The Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) has reached another remarkable milestone, earning its twelfth Stevie Award since 2013. This year, BOC proudly won a Bronze Stevie Award, recognized in the esteemed “Thought Leadership in Customer Service” category at the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

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Integrate Live Chat & AI to Your eCommerce Business [& Learn How to Do It Right]

Win the Customer

Better customer service – It’s no secret that customers love live chat. eDigital surveyed in 2013, where 73% of people surveyed said that they preferred live chat to use email, SMS, social media, the phone, and so on. Live chat excels here because responses are quick which lead to satisfied customers and more conversions.

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Customer Experience Commitment – 2016 Customer Centricity Research Findings

ijgolding

When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. I have always been fascinated to know if people that work in organisations across the globe really do think it is true – i.e. that their companies do actually take customer centricity seriously.