Skybridge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you’re a customer-centric brand, you’ve invested mightily in long-term relationships, customer profitability, and the underlying loyalty factor that fuels those metrics. And if the past three years have taught us anything about loyalty, it’s these two things: Customer loyalty is an emotional connection to a brand.

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JUNE 3, 2020

With all of the unprecedented turmoil, uncertainty, and unprecedented change, most businesses – and their customers – have experienced equally tumultuous changes. To keep up market demands and rebuild robust, positive CX, Rimer suggests that customer-centric organizations will now need to “relearn the shifting needs of their customers.”.

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Skybridge

AUGUST 24, 2023

As queues grow longer, customer patience grows shorter. When you can’t keep up, your customers may move on. Gone are the days when retail, customer-centric brands can successfully train their customers to schedule their requests for help within a 9-5 weekday window. You’re a Monday-Friday operation in a 24/7 world.

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Skybridge

APRIL 23, 2021

Be sure you’ve got a customer-centric value or two, and make sure to not only socialize but operationalize. This promise to your customers should be reflected in everything you do. Everything you do must be aligned with your values, and they should be integrated into everything you do. Brand promise.

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Skybridge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Every team member of every customer-centric business knows that their customers have been going through upheaval this year. And while many brands – even stable, highly successful ones – have responded admirably, they have also struggled to truly understand what this all means for the customer journey. They fluctuated.

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Skybridge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Even as 2021 looms, too many people say “Customer Experience” when they actually mean “Customer Service.” And too many executives perceive Customer Experience as something they can train their employees to do without seeing the bigger picture and building the requisite customer-centric culture, processes and technology.

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Skybridge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This year, you face the additional challenges of maintaining the safety of your customers and employees, accommodating the (perhaps temporary) end to many of the traditional ways you may have served your customers previously, and anticipating your customers’ ever fluctuating needs. It’s a tall order.

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Skybridge

AUGUST 24, 2022

If you look at your customer care through these three simple but critical lenses and find your customer care wanting, I hope you’ll reach out to us at Skybridge Americas. We specialize in delivering superior customer experiences for customer-centric brands, and we would love to talk about how we can help you!

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Skybridge

APRIL 26, 2022

“Many organizations claim to be customer-centric. So why do some continue lose customers, while others deliver phenomenal experiences?”. That’s the opening line in a recent CMS Wire article by Jason VandeBoom. It’s also the central, multi-million-dollar question at the heart of retail business plans these days.

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Skybridge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The way your customer care agents are hired, onboarded, coached, recognized, and set up to succeed determines whether your CX plans will come to life. At Skybridge Americas, we have set the industry standard for leading teams of talented, enthusiastic, customer-centric and service-driven customer care agents.

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Skybridge

JULY 31, 2020

In response to these changes, most customer-centric brands are undergoing their own dramatic recalibrations. If you doubt that, consider the many basic, everyday products and services that were so easily accessible, pre-COVID, that we took them for granted — that are now sought, hoarded, compared, rated, and prized as treasures.

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Skybridge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Does your customer care team have the resources to meet the demands of today’s easily agitated customers? At Skybridge Americas, we have been leading the way in delivering superior customer experiences for customer-centric brands. If you’d like to learn more about how we can help you, please reach out.

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Skybridge

MAY 25, 2021

But increasingly, CMOs are making it a priority to work closely with contact center leaders because of the growing importance of customer experience (CX) management in driving revenue. Most customer-centric CMOs are aware of this fact. The results show that 34% of U.S. CMOs have cited improving CX as their biggest concern.

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Skybridge

APRIL 12, 2022

But those same customers absolutely demand that, when they reach out to that same brand for support or assistance on non-basic matters, they have quick access to a caring person who will listen, solve, and show authentic human care. And they have a sophisticated understanding of what truly customer-centric brands are capable of delivering.

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Skybridge

APRIL 19, 2021

Admittedly, this CX factor lacks the warm, feel-good appeal of in-person customer interaction. Nonetheless, a customer-centric implementation of IT will be critical for providing the insights you need to design the optimal experience. Here are five important ones you might not be thinking about. Technology, Data, and Analysis.

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Skybridge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s a Whether it’s Qualtrics, Survey Monkey or ZenDesk, it’s time to ask in no uncertain terms how your customers think you’re doing and what you need to differently to meet their changing needs. Getting into a customer-centric huddle is not enough. There is literally no other way to get this information besides asking.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

At the heart of all five, unsurprisingly, there is a total focus on customer-centricity. Aves suggests that there are 5 critical steps to achieving the right reset. After all they’ve been through, consumers are weary, fatigued, and easily frustrated by poor service or a perceived lack of empathy.

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Skybridge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

He proved that a positive, empowered, customer-centric culture is the key to delivering superior ROI. Here are 5 key customer care leadership lessons we can all take from Hsieh’s experience. Hsieh, who wrote the New York Times best seller, Delivering Happiness, is often described as someone who humanized the tech workplace.

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