ShepHyken

APRIL 19, 2019

This week we feature an article by Georgina Nelson who explains her approach to collecting customer feedback that will help you provide a better customer experience. One of the biggest misconceptions about collecting customer feedback is the idea that asking more questions provides more of the insights you’re looking for.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2019

One of the best ways is to create a customer persona and don’t forget to give each persona a name and personality. Gain feedbacks in real-time – Feedbacks have always been a must! Try capturing feedbacks in real-time. Of course, you can even think of making specific outbound calls to gain more insightful feedback.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

AIM will allow brands to dive deep the realm of keyword search, blogs, customer surveys, social media profiles and all sorts of other online data. Marketers can then analyze that data without manually going through more information than any one person, or even team should have to on their own. appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2018

The objective of this process is to reduce the time it takes for developers to gather user feedback data and use it to tweak the product. In this blog, let us look at a few ways a business can keep a tab on customer experience through continuous testing.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It helps them personalize their service. Your staff can deliver a more personalized experience when they have more information about who they’re serving. Customer notes : Even if your staff is in a hurry, they can easily make a personal connection with a quick glance at the notes added to a customer profile from a previous purchase.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Before Mark Zuckerberg revolutionized online communication with Facebook, the pace of feedback traveling via word-of-mouth was slow. Social media has empowered users to share instant feedback with their followers – and have those comments validated instantly. Read Shep’s latest Forbes article: .

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Positive body language – A person slouching their way through the store, with a sour or surly facial expression doesn’t look approachable. Ask for feedback. When you actively solicit feedback, it empowers your employees and sends a clear signal that you’re willing to work on you, too.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

From clients and customers commenting on our blog. When I hear a script, I wonder if the person can help me. No interest in customer feedback. No personalized engagement. Hard to do with no personalized engagement. If a customer has feedback, a request or a complaint, they don’t care who YOU have to forward it to.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Personalize customer service. Showing concern and care for their problems and making the interaction more personalized helps in improving customer satisfaction. CSAT is measured by the responses received to the questions asked in a customer feedback survey. How is a CSAT score measured?

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ShepHyken

MAY 24, 2019

One of the other problems with surveys, in general, is that you cannot necessarily rely on the honesty of the person taking it. If you are trying to get answers to ten questions, for example, you can ask one rotating question per person. Are they being honest? That question does not have to be the same for each respondent.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This personalized service leads to a higher perception of quality, and if your IVR can tap into your customer data from other channels, previous interactions, and your CRM, each call can be a quality experience. The IVR can link back to your customer data, modify survey questions in real-time, and collect personalized feedback.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 1, 2018

This is because customers receive instant and personalized answers that’ll keep them glued to an organization’s services. Monitors client feedbacks and ratings. The post Guest Blog: Things to Consider Before Buying a Live Chat Software appeared first on Shep Hyken. So, ensure to compare them all on the basis of their features.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This blog post will explore key AI trends shaping the future of customer service and discuss their implications for product development. Hyper-Personalization at Scale: Trend: AI-powered tools are enabling hyper-personalization of customer interactions at an unprecedented scale. GDPR, CCPA).

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Are they providing feedback—and how much is positive versus negative? Provide the same level of service that you would in person or over the phone, take any opportunity to go the extra mile, and who knows—perhaps someday, you’ll be looked at as the prime example of how others should be using social media! Timing Is Everything.

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TeleDirect

MARCH 7, 2025

Best Practices in Call Script Design: Crafting the Perfect Balance Between Information Gathering and Personalization Best Practices in Call Script Design play a critical role in delivering high-quality customer interactions while maintaining efficiency in a call center. Personalize the greeting if customer details are available.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 27, 2018

Make sure reps are easily reachable for after sales inquiries and feedback via instant chat, social media, email, and phone. Provide A Personalized Experience. Personalize, personalize, personalize! Personalization is not going anywhere and will increase as technology evolves. Utilize Social Media.

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TeleDirect

JANUARY 15, 2025

This blog will explore the role of empathy in customer service, its impact on customer experience, and why prioritizing empathy can make your business stand out in the competitive landscape of American call centers. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. What Is Empathy in Customer Service?

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2019

Secondly, there should be a balance between professionalism and personality when it comes to interacting with customers. Finally, the onboarding process should be open to feedback in order to calibrate it and perfect it based on the concerns of the people who go through it. This also includes a good understanding of the business.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 11, 2025

If it lacks branding, feels impersonal, or looks like it was designed in seconds, it signals that you dont care that much about their feedback. Survey B: A generic survey emailno branding, no personalization, just a standard "Click here to take the survey" link. The result? Survey A had double the response rate of Survey B.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2018

The trigger for sending such questionnaire also matters: is it sent to every person you had a conversation with or to a specific sample? You may also keep in mind that dissatisfied customers tend to share their feedback more easily than satisfied ones.

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ProProfs Blog

MAY 13, 2020

That gap is called Personalization. Two sips and a few smiles later, you open your phone to see news alerts and blogs that you would just love to read. Google CEO, Sundar Pichai explained in a company event, “Our goal is to build a personal Google for each and every user. What is Personalized Customer Service.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expectations are important to meet (and ideally exceed), particularly when this is the person who decides if whether you stay or go at an organization. Save the wisecracks for your blog. Request feedback. I would argue you should never be this person whether it’s your first 90 days or not! Find the balance.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Who you servebusinesses or consumersshapes everything about how you collect, analyze, and act on customer feedback. But what has changed is how AI is transforming both B2B and B2C VoC, helping companies capture insights more efficiently, analyze feedback at scale, and prioritize the right actions faster than ever before.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 23, 2015

This does not mean, however, negative feedback is never warranted. If you attack the person instead of the behavior, you can damage the business relationship. You must give them time to adjust to the new system and take in the feedback they receive. Tip #7: Make time for the person. Blogs Customer Experience'

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 12, 2017

On a personal level, complaining too much is bad because it reinforces negative thoughts and makes people dread being around you. I was browsing in a shop a few weeks ago and ended up in an extended, one-sided discussion about the difficulty of competing with larger retailers and the owner’s personal health struggles.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

Root Cause Analysis Across Touchpoints As I have mentioned in recent blog posts , AI-powered text analytics dives into unstructured feedback to reveal whats driving customer sentiment. By analyzing feedback and behavior across touchpoints, AI uncovers relationships between service interactions and broader customer sentiment.

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TeleDirect

JANUARY 20, 2025

In this blog, well explore actionable steps to transform even the most challenging calls into moments that strengthen customer relationships and enhance your brands reputation. Solicit feedback to identify improvement areas. For American call centers , every call is an opportunity to build trust and long-term loyalty.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 18, 2019

They discuss Mary’s recent article, “ Bad Experiences Aren’t Always the Problem for Companies ” as it pertains to customer feedback, customers’ expectations, and the entire customer experience. Many companies either ignore or miss out on the most important aspect of feedback: the voice of the customer. So, listen.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 21, 2020

My smartphone feels a lot more personal to me than my PC. The challenge with feedback and reviews is they are frequently solicited but infrequently completed. In another paper, Professor Melumad’s research shows that people tend to be more self-disclosing of personal and intimate information on their phones relative to their PCs.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This is where the importance of customer feedback plays its part. Collecting customer feedback guarantees you never stray too far from the customer’s needs. Even though it has both negative and positive sides, you’ll need both for consumer feedback to work for you. What is Customer Feedback? Source: Broadly.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Before the internet and social media, there were limited ways to get feedback from customers, especially if you didn’t have a brick and mortar location where you saw them face to face. In those days, customer surveys played an important role in getting feedback from people who had done business with you.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 12, 2015

The study claims that even though your emotions are personal and unique to you, our brains interpret the signals in a similar way. If you enjoyed this post, you may be interested in the following blogs: Behavior Psychology Proves That Event Boundaries Affect Customers’ Memory of Your Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 20, 2020

My smartphone feels a lot more personal to me than my PC. The challenge with feedback and reviews is they are frequently solicited but infrequently completed. In another paper, Professor Melumad’s research shows that people tend to be more self-disclosing of personal and intimate information on their phones relative to their PCs.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2018

Honest feedback from your customers is the best way to improve any hiccups in your Customer Experience. Social norms, however, can get right in the way of getting that honest feedback, at least in some instances. Those feelings of discomfort would be compounded by how we know we are making the other person feel.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2016

On how personalization can improve a customer’s online experience, the online retailer said it was important to examine “past transactions and entry points to serve relevant content.”. Q: Is Personalization imperative for Customer Experience. When you personalize the experience for a person, they feel cared for, valued, appreciated.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

The response was so good that it begged to be a blog post. In his response, ,, Zeisler says, “Walking in the customer’s shoes is the greatest way to experience what your customers are experiencing themselves and the greatest way to personally experience what the gap is between what you want that experience to be and what it actually is.”.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2020

Also, people remember unique experiences, as well as those that are personally relevant, meaning those with brands with which we identify (in my case, Apple). Not only does that go against the idea of getting authentic feedback, but it can also backfire. Moreover, Chen says that positive memories seem to stick longer than the negative.

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