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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 3, 2025

ShepHyken

My Comment: We kick off this weeks Top Five roundup with an article by John Goodman, one of the world’s top customer service and CX consultants, who teaches us what causes customer rage and how we can deal with it and prevent it. This is a powerful and important article that everyone should read. Enough said!

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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. I asked him what the problem was.

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Unleashing the Power of AI vs. Human Touch: Which Delivers a Superior Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

.’ As a result, he has over 294,000 followers and 78,000 subscribers to his LinkedIn newsletter ‘Why Customers Buy’ The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy as one of the best management consultancies for four years. Click here to learn more about Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University.

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Guest Post: A Guide to Training Employees to Deliver Outstanding eCommerce Customer Service

ShepHyken

Allow employees to have some room for creative solutions without consulting the leader or manual on everything. Consider having on-site training workshops by customer service experts. The workshops are customized to meet the unique needs of your employees. It will help your team understand the purpose of each action.

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Be Warned! Technology Isn’t Everything

Beyond Philosophy

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. To explain why, I’ll use comments about customer experience that the presidents of Royal Caribbean Cruises and Build-A-Bear Workshop and the former CEO of Sprint offered in a recent roundtable discussion.

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

ShepHyken

A customer success platform for managing interactions in a single space. Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities. What does a “well-designed customer success program” even look like?

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The Five Rules for Affecting Real Culture Change

Beyond Philosophy

I was running a workshop with a utility client many years ago about the concept of Customer Experience. In my early career in corporate life, the philosophy flavor of the month at that particular time was Total Quality Management. The first call center I managed many years ago had 550 people in Bristol, England.

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