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5 Rules for Driving Down Costs in a Customer-Focused Way

Beyond Philosophy

For example, I was running a workshop for a client in the mobile communications market. The VP of customer service was late and came into the workshop after about an hour looking fraught. In another client situation, I spoke with a senior manager at a water utility we were consulting. Second, there is a lost opportunity cost.

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Guest Post: How to Design a Customer Success Program That Works

ShepHyken

Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. Encourage shadowing experienced account managers who can disseminate their best tips and tricks. Provide them with checklists, guides, and best practices.

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Why Customers Make Strange Decisions

Beyond Philosophy

These results, however, are the basis for an economic principle called Mental Accounting. Mental Accounting describes the situations where fungibility breaks down. Simply put, mental accounting works with emotions also. I was running a workshop in the states for a mobile company when the sales manager came in late.

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It’s all about context stupid! Why most businesses fail to take this into account

Beyond Philosophy

They were asking for the account number right off the bat. The senior managers thought customers would be ready to present their account numbers upon getting through the call center queue. The quicker the call center employee had the account number, the faster they could resolve the issue and have their employee process another call.

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11 Industry Experts Discuss “What’s More Important: Customer First or Profit First?”

Steve DiGioia

Dennis worked with the Walt Disney World Company for twenty years and now consults with organizations around the world, helping them achieve their customer service goals. I advise my consulting clients to identify three things they would want customers to say or think about the organization after any interaction. Dennis Snow.

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

Then there’s the organizational skills required to get the right people in the room, the communication and presentation skills needed when standing out the front of workshops, and the analytical skills required to develop personas and the accompanying service design blueprints.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 29, 2024

ShepHyken

Alexander Group releases Customer Experience Research by Businesswire (MarTech Cube) Alexander Group, the leading revenue growth consultancy to Global 2000 companies, today unveiled the results of its new Customer Experience Research report. Keep innovating and properly staff for the customer willing to use self-checkout and needs help.