ShepHyken

JANUARY 26, 2025

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. What makes a great customer experience? Personalization and making the customer feel good whenever the engage with you (online, in person, on the phone, etc.) Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ShepHyken

JULY 12, 2019

This week we feature an article by Hugues Meyrath who says that by integrating machine learning and AI capabilities into your processes, you can optimize the performance of your facilities and staff to drive a positive customer experience. At the heart of this is the need to create better customer experiences and deliver new services.

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CX Global Media

AUGUST 27, 2018

When it comes to improving survey scores, most contact centers have way too many obstacles and paths in front of them, so they need to learn to take a path less traveled. Ignore Survey Scores. If so, it’s time to ignore your survey scores. When thinking about survey scores, you need to do just that. Ignore to Focus.

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ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. Why Empathy is Core to Closing the Customer Experience Gap by Mark Zablan.

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CCNG

JUNE 29, 2022

On a recent episode of CX Passport, Elaine Lee, Managing Director of ReynoldsBusbyLee and I discussed how it takes a real understanding of a real customer to know how to deliver the right customer experience. Rick also hosts the CX Passport podcast and believes the best meals are served outside and require a passport.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And of course, one of my favorite “holidays” is National Customer Service Week , which happens the first full week of October each year. Traditionally, Customer Service Week has been the time to highlight and celebrate the great work employees do to take care of their customers. This year it’s October 5-9.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. Shep Hyken.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Now, think about how many ripe opportunities you have to ask for customer feedback. Through after-call surveys. You might confuse them with net promoter score or cSAT, but post-call surveys are a much more specific way to gather real-time feedback. What is an After-Call Survey? 5 Reasons to Use After-Call Surveys.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

If one of them came to me and asked, “Uncle Jeremy, I’d sure love to follow in your footsteps and pursue a career in customer experience (CX). While there are more and more schools offering degrees in customer experience or customer experience management, what if their school of choice does not? Conclusions.

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VirtualPBX

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What Are Automated Phone Surveys? Automated phone surveys are a common tool businesses use to collect feedback from customers. They are affordable, quick to implement, and provide a direct line to customers. These surveys give businesses real-time insights into the quality of their service and customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 30, 2017

Moreover, per Groupon’s latest survey, most people lie about being happy about the gifts they receive at the holidays. When I read this study, I wondered if we lie to people about our gift receiving experience, isn’t it also likely we lie about other experiences too? Why Customers Lie to Us.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 17, 2015

Employee Experience and Customer Experience are linked. The Voice of the Customer (VOC) refers to the feedback you get regarding a Customer’s expectations and their experience with your organization. Engagement at an employee level is critical to creating a good Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Vince Jeffs, examines the hot topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s impact on the customer experience. This not only drives increased revenue but also provides unexpected value to the customer. Of course, none of this replaces human thinking.

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ShepHyken

MAY 28, 2021

But now, shopping is a constant experience. So what can retailers do to make sure the customer experience in eCommerce is positive and engaging for customers? What can they do to win loyal customers in this effortless economy?? . To find out, Linnworks conducted a survey of 1,000 shoppers.? .

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 9, 2017

But is it right for Customer Experience? On the one hand, speeding up service and eliminating mundane tasks to free employees up to do other tasks, like coaching their direct reports, seems like it would be a boon to Customer Experience. Also, the survey showed that nearly 20% of U.S. households, around 24.5

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He shares six tips and strategies to share with your team for improving the eCommerce customer experience. Poor customer service costs businesses over $75 billion a year in lost profits. Here are some great examples: Shepard virtual training course. How to find customer experience problems before they occur.

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360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. You started by defining what customer experience success meant to your organization. . Measurable.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In other words, it’s often only the high-level takeaways from customer service feedback that are communicated to your support team (if at all). You don’t want to inundate team members with survey data. Instead of simply telling your team, “We’re doing pretty well with customer service,” you can show them just how well they’re doing.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 16, 2022

Starting with a rule that demands you accept change as a constant, we set you on the right course for grouping your customers into meaningful segments that allow you to target them with the right message that encourages them to do what you want in the way that speaks to them best. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Customer satisfaction and net promoter scores are helpful metrics, but the after-call survey is the most immediate resource. And how should you structure your survey? Keep reading—we’ll guide you through everything you need to know to write a successful after-call survey! What is an After-Call Survey For?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 10, 2016

It parallels a shift in the overall mindset of consumers in this area, one of a more commanding and capricious customer. In other words, the Customer Experience matters here more than it did even a couple of years ago. Much of this value derives from how your Customer Experience makes them feel. Are you ready?

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Callminer

MAY 26, 2020

First Response Time (FRT) makes this critical caller waiting period clear enough to act on, ensuring you can positively impact the customer journey and experience at the very first touchpoint. For more information on the customer experience, download our white paper, The CX Pro’s Guide to Speech Analytics.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 15, 2018

It also has an enormous influence on Customer Experience outcomes. 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. Avoiding a Red Ledger in the Accounting of Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 22, 2016

What happens when you take the people out of an experience that was traditionally a human-based interaction? And what does this mean to the future of Customer Experience? Amazon and Uber have been making headlines by eliminating the humans from areas of the Customer Experience where a person is usually involved.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 22, 2017

However, I’m lovin’ their plans to overhaul their Customer Experience to regain the 500 million lost customer visits. McDonald’s plan to upgrade to the “Experience of the Future “ has much to teach us all about how to adapt to the changing expectations of today’s discerning (and demanding) customers.

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Interaction Metrics

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Analyzing open ended survey questions is the single most fruitful method for getting meaningful, honest feedback. Employees and customers can express themselves through text and say whats really on their minds in a way thats impossible through structured rating questions. And it’s useful for analyzing the Customer Experience too!

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 24, 2018

By EX, of course, we mean employee experience. Customer experience optimization has, for some time, been the stated goal of many enterprises around the world. Where the role of employees in meeting that goal is concerned, however, there has been a tacit belief that the equation “happy employees = happy customers” works.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Apart from this, you can conduct regular user experience surveys to take the pulse of your software or website users. UX surveys are only as good as the questions you ask your participants. To help you navigate this, I bring a list of 10 user experience surveys questions you should never forget to ask.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 20, 2017

Providing ‘value’ to the Customer. According to a recent Gartner survey, 74% of providers focus too much on their product features and technology. What customers really want from your organization is help solving their problem. The danger of not being able to craft or communicate your value proposition, of course, is lost sales.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2019

The rate of change in all industries is faster than ever, and it happens continuously; if you fall behind, you’ll lose customers. Talk to your customers and listen to what they say. Have a real conversation with them instead of merely relying on surveys. How can I deliver the best customer experience?

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

And what do you even mean by a happy customer ? Apparently, even though all serious businesses want to have their customer satisfaction at the highest level, not all of them measure customer experience in the same way. . However, there are some ways of measuring customer experience that can be more effective than others?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

She shares common misconceptions about customer service and offers ways to fight them in order to provide great customer experiences. Keep reading to dive into four common misconceptions about customer service, and how to combat them to offer better customer experiences.

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delighted

AUGUST 10, 2021

But as Delighted has evolved, our feature set has exploded (did you catch that we’ve released three new survey types in the past three weeks??). You’ll also get a badge to share that validates your customer experience management expertise (within your company, the CX community, and the world!).

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Last year, trade group ICMI conducted a survey in which a whopping 92 percent of customer service managers said they thought their agents could be more effective. Nearly three quarters of the managers said that company policies prevented the agents from providing a good customer experience. Why was this number so high?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

He listed 20 reasons why a customer would choose to buy an IBM computer. On the list were words like quality, reliability, fast response, quick repairs, capability and of course there was price. As customers were surveyed, they were asked to rank these 20 words based on how important they were to the decision of buying an IBM computer.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 8, 2016

If they show up at your registration desk/exit row/car counter/hostess stand, how are you going to be deliberate about creating a great moment in their Customer Experience? With all this demand (and who can argue that customers can be demanding?), it is easy to forget the importance of creating an excellent Customer Experience.

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