Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2018

Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially. Social Media Changes Customer Service. Even millions!

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ShepHyken

MAY 8, 2017

Each week I read a number of customer service and experience articles from various online resources. 10 Content Marketing and Customer Experience All-Stars by James A. FCR) I recently flew on one of the major airlines and observed many opportunities for improvement (a phrase we like to use in contact centers).

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Clothing outlets will be able to suggest certain sizes and colors — and let customers re-order their favorite pair of shoes as soon as they walk inside (and it will not require any human interaction). Cameron Halcomb • Customer Experience Consultant, Emarsys • @cam_hassler • LinkedIn. appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having a great product is important, but it can be overshadowed and rejected if accompanied by poor customer service. Likewise, even the best service may only temporarily excite a customer if the product fails to meet their expectations. Companies need to achieve a balance between product quality and customer experience.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Things Your Contact Center Can Learn Now From Chewy on How To Improve Your Customer Experience While Still Keeping Your Agents Happy and Productive by Veronica Krieg. A Customer Service Perspective) Consider how L.L.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Top 3 Trends Shaping Customer Service in 2025 Customer service is undergoing a revolutionary transformation as businesses adapt to evolving consumer expectations, technological advancements , and the competitive need for personalization. Q: How can small businesses implement proactive customer engagement?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

More than just a buzzword, ‘being human’, especially in brand-building and leveraging customer relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept. To understand customers, the effective enterprise needs to think in human, emotional terms. Service is one of the few times that companies will directly interact with their customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

If you haven’t defined what your culture is and how it aligns with the Customer Experience you want to deliver, that’s exactly what you’ll get—a culture that is undefined and out of alignment with the desired experience you want for your Customers. You focus on product sales and performance at team meetings.

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ShepHyken

MAY 16, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Are You Tracking the Customer Service Metrics That Really Count? My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with an excellent article about the best customer service metrics. Yes, metrics matter.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 26, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Doug Sandler, busts some popular customer service myths. MYTH – Great customer service starts with understanding the customer is always right. Unfortunately, the customer may always think he is right, but in reality, that just isn’t the case.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

The company doesn’t have, as a result, the ability to track, at household level, what customers are and aren’t purchasing in their stores. What Publix does, instead of loyalty cards, is try different alternative approaches to build sales. Some retailers do more than emphasize the sales and service fundamentals.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 24, 2017

Used properly, I believe bots can be an customer service excellent tool. Suddenly, each airline had its own website, with its own esoteric booking system, full of opaque requirements and mandatory fields. Read Shep’s latest Forbes Article: Seven Lessons From A Moving Company: How Service Leads To Sales. .

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 30, 2019

This week we feature an article by Lukas Sitar who writes about growing and sustaining customer lifetime value for the entire customer cycle. While many marketers look at metrics like conversion rates, net profit per sale, average value of a lead, and average customer order, they often overlook their customer lifetime value.

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Inbenta

JULY 29, 2021

8 airline chatbot use cases to achieve top-notch support. Airline chatbot examples. Create your own airline chatbot. These situations call for superior airline customer service. Achieving top-notch airline support with chatbots. Let’s face it. Automate flight search & bookings.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 10 Customer-Centric Questions to Create Irresistible Value by Josh Linkner. How a customer service project is helping Southwest Airlines realise its 360-customer vision by Nadia Cameron.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 7, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How to Build Customer Loyalty by Sharing the Inflation Burden by Joel Comm. My friend, Joel Comm, shared three interesting ways to cut costs that make sense because none impact the service customers are used to experiencing.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

Are, beyond customers who would be loyal anyway, are they driving more purchase activity and narrowed consideration sets? These programs produce positive sales increases for hotels, for example, but negative sales impact on car rental, airlines and food retail.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 31, 2015

Branches allow for direct contact with individuals and businesses important for the sales of financial services. Or, like staying at a Ritz-Carlton, shopping at an Apple store, or flying Southwest Airlines. This does not mean that bank branches will go the way of video stores or carriage shops, however.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here is a quick recap: Right before an overbooked United Express flight took off on April 9, 2017, airplane staff were recorded manhandling and forcibly removing passengers to make room for airline employees. . Now, it would be wrong to say that such a big airline company did not have a devised structure of customer service policies.

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Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

By pushing for the sale in all your Facebook posts and tweets, you end up ignoring many of your customers. How about being a bit more personal and actually communicating with your customers? Remember when customers were limited to using the telephone if they wanted to contact businesses? Conclusion.

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Vonage

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When a company reaches the top, does customer service quality still matter? I recently organized a service bench-marking visit to Singapore for 22 Korean sales and service trainers. At the Singapore Airlines Cabin Crew Training Center, one visitor asked, “How does Singapore Airlines stay on top all these years?

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Excellent customer service isnt just a nice-to-have for online wholesale storesits a necessity. Small shifts in communication, support, and responsiveness can create loyal customers who choose your store every time. It wont tell you every turn to take, but it will point you in the general direction of your customers needs.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Lots of executives talk about their focus on customer service. Over the decades I’ve been researching and speaking, it has become very clear to me that: The most successful organizations in the world—business, government, and non-profit—keep customer service at the center of their work. I like to follow service leaders.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With the ever-changing scenario of business globalization, companies are thriving hard to retain their brand’s loyalty by creating cutting-edge product sales strategies. But, with the overwhelming consumer demands and customer expectations, you cannot afford to negate the importance of satisfactory customer services. .

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CCNG

JUNE 14, 2023

I quickly called the airline to see what could be done to rectify the situation. Still after 10 years, I remember that conversation with that agent, and go out of my way to use that airline. In today's competitive market, providing an outstanding customer experience is more important than ever.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We hosted the Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal Alex Mead ( alexmead@sky.com ) recently to talk about it, and I wanted to share what we discussed here with all of you, too. Suppose you are at an airport, the airline cancels your flight, and you sit in a call center queue.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 31, 2017

We create our storefronts or design our websites, and then, after everything else has been put in place, we ask, “Okay, how do we improve the experience for our customer?” We simply do not think about defining the customer experience and customer service as we should – or at least at the right time.

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CCNG

JULY 3, 2024

BENEFITS OF CONTACT CENTER OUTSOURCING With contact center outsourcing, a business becomes more agile and flexible, ready to meet customer requirements and scale up or down as needed. Round-the-clock, personalized customer service operations improve CX, increasing lead generation and customer conversion.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing. But the phone conversations that are handled by human agents are generally becoming longer and more complicated as simpler inquiries are handled through self-service options. That’s what we all fear.

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ProProfs Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

companies lose more than $62 billion due to poor customer service. Not surprising, considering Americans tell an average of 15 people about a poor service experience, versus the 11 people they’ll tell about a good experience. . Bad customer service has become a major business problem today. Annually, U.S.

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Vonage

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It was a deeply engaging and apropos discussion as many businesses embark on initiatives to transform their contact centers and deliver on the customer experience promise. In fact, the discussion organically tilted toward customer experience rather than customer service - a subtle, but noteworthy shift in being customer centric. .

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Your airline has updated your flight details, shortening an already tight connection time. You decline and make a mental note to never fly with that airline again. Often customer service leaders believe that with a few simple moves, they can transform their customer service department from a cost center into a profit center.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 9, 2022

Many organizations bust their backs trying to deliver excellent Customer Service. However, it might surprise you to learn your Customers want self-service—and the reasons why might surprise you even more. Freedom Boat Club Customer Service reps, you’re welcome.). If You Build It, Will They Come?

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Fonolo

JUNE 26, 2019

While many factors are at play here, the growth of the mobile app market has been partly driven by the fact that more and more businesses are integrating mobile apps into their customer service strategies. The Customer Service Takeaway: Customers want convenience on their terms, not yours.

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CCNG

AUGUST 16, 2023

Surveying shouldn’t be a feel-good exercise in your company – it needs to be taken seriously by every person to truly make the voice of the customer alive in your organization. One of the best transaction surveys I’ve encountered is from Delta Airlines.

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Kayako

OCTOBER 20, 2015

When I think back to my own experiences, only a few times have I truly been blown away by customer service and made to feel like a truly valued customer, instead of just another ticket that needs to be dealt with. Customer service is overlooked in many companies. Good vs Great customer service.

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