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“Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” – How To Apologize

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Of course, we all make mistakes. Seeing that Wells Fargo violated the trust of their customers by their employees opening and moving customers money into their account, they had to accept responsibility. By accepting responsibility, the CEO had to show remorse for the way it didn’t handle their customer accounts responsibly.

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Yikes! Rental Car Horror Stories

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This is, of course, a terrible customer experience. In one case, a Payless customer returned a car and found she had been charged for personal liability insurance that she had repeatedly declined. To learn more about understanding your customers and improving your Customer Experience join one of our training courses.

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

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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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Is Your Price Right? Here?s How To Check

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You should understand Mental Accounting as it pertains to customer behavior before you set the price and before you ruin how your customers feel about your experience. So, What is Mental Accounting? Airlines Run Mental Accounting Too Often in the Red. How else is a person going to pay for an airline ticket in 2018?

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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The Six Most Dreaded Words In Customer Experience

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Real life – stranger than fiction (of course). A separate enrollment application is required with no apparent linking to the charge account. At the end of the transaction I remember that we’re members of this new program and ask the clerk if the purchase can be credited to our loyalty account. you get the idea). So what to do?

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Customer Service Week: A Time to Celebrate Customers AND Employees

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And of course, one of my favorite “holidays” is National Customer Service Week , which happens the first full week of October each year. Customers are people, not account numbers. The responses we got were pretty common sense (but of course, common sense isn’t always so common!). This year it’s October 5-9.