ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2025

This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How can companies leverage artificial intelligence to improve customer experience? What challenges do businesses face in becoming truly customer-centric? How does AI compare to traditional surveys in measuring customer satisfaction?

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ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The answer lies in the formulation of an employee engagement survey that captures the pulse of your employees around the parameters: peer interaction, work culture, job challenge, career prospects, etc. With an employee engagement survey, you can gauge the challenges faced by your employees at the earliest. What Is Employee Engagement?

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ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

What if I tell you that you could achieve the same by sending out business surveys questions while spending negligible time and money. . And this could be simply done by conducting business surveys. Collecting feedback via business surveys not only helps you advance your business, but also helps save a lot of time, money, and effort.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Receiving customer feedback is not just about surveys and data collection. Sure, an online survey maker helps you create a survey and access the right distribution channels, but what next? . When the survey data comes back in, how do you use it for the benefit of different teams – sales, marketing, product, etc.?

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Pascal van Opzeeland who writes about the quality of customer support and what it takes to provide great customer support. – Shep Hyken. What makes a customer support interaction good or bad? To be good, a customer support interaction needs to be….

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 4, 2021

Forty-eight percent of Americans would rather go to the dentist than call customer support. . It seems that going to the dentist to get a filling or a root canal is preferred over having to call customer support. This statistic comes straight from the 2021 Achieving Customer Amazement Study we conducted this year.

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ProProfs Blog

JULY 20, 2021

A survey is an effective medium to collect feedback from your target audience. Sensitive questions on age, income, race, and religion form an unavoidable part of demographic surveys, market research surveys, health surveys, and so on. Usually, people are reluctant to share personal information via offline surveys.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ever wondered why some surveys succeed in getting the highest response rate while others often go unopened and unattended? Timing determines whether a survey sits in the inbox forever or manages to catch a customer’s attention. Find that perfect moment when the chances of customers completing your survey are the highest.

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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. How to Conduct UX Surveys.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The answer lies in the return to work survey to gauge employee preparedness to resume work from office. This blog gives you a thorough understanding of: What is a return to the work survey and its importance. Top 9 questions to include in your return to work survey. When to ask the survey questions?

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ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2021

8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your 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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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 29, 2025

Surveys are anonymous, sample-based, often lengthy, and delivered via a report in weeks/months. VoC : Operational, two-way communication that gathers real-time feedback from all customers, enabling companies to act on individual concerns while improving processes at touchpoints.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 16, 2024

After they do a self-assessment, which is their perception, they should – if they haven’t already – survey their customers to discover their reality. They should learn firsthand what it’s like to be a customer. Experiencing firsthand comments from customers is a powerful dose of reality – hopefully, good reality!

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ShepHyken

JUNE 10, 2019

Voice of the Customer Surveys: Expert Tips for Creating Effective Surveys & Must-Ask Questions for Gaining Valuable Insights by CallMiner. My Comment: I’ve been paying attention to how good companies are getting feedback (in the form of customer surveys).

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2021

They tolerate fewer customer service failures and demand better because they know it’s possible. Customers are becoming impatient. Consider the result of the more than 1,000 consumers we surveyed for our 2020 Achieving Customer Amazement Survey. of them are willing to leave because of bad customer service.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2021

So, here are three of my favorite ways to get to know your customer.? . Create a survey to learn what your customers want and expect from you. The shorter the survey , the higher the percentage of response you’ll get.? . Focus on Feedback. Keep it short and simple – even just two or three questions.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2025

Empathy is essential in customer support, but how do you know if its actually making a difference? By using customer feedback and tracking specific metrics, you can see just how empathy shapes the customer experience and drives your teams success. Start by designing survey questions that target emotional interactions.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

My Comment: Customer support is going to get better! While many companies have nailed it, there are CX laggards that have given the customer support industry an undeserved reputation that leaves room for improvement. Especially when you’re on the receiving end of customer complaints.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By strategically implementing AI, businesses can unlock efficiencies and address longstanding challenges in customer and employee experiences.

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delighted

APRIL 12, 2024

Once you discover the power of surveying customers and implementing their feedback, it’s easy to want to scale your feedback program to send more surveys, more frequently. But if you see response rates drop and a lack of customer engagement with your surveys, your audience might be experiencing survey fatigue.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week we feature an article by Soumya Juttukonda, a content developer & digital media strategist at Knowmax , an AI enterprise knowledge base solution to enhance customer service. She shares how you can reduce customer support tickets and enhance customer experience. Map the customer journey.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

These are micro-goals that drive your team towards customer satisfaction, e.g. “ We will respond to email messages within 6 hours”. These are strategies like “Hire empathetic people for customer support team” that maximize customer satisfaction. Try using NPS (Net Promoter Score) and CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score).

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Nicereply

JULY 31, 2023

A customer satisfaction survey – the easiest way to get feedback from your customers. Customer feedback fuels the engine of any business. When you know what customers think about your product and your service, you’re able to plan strategically and make smart bets. Use clear and concise language 2.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2023

Some companies will make the mistake of cutting in areas their customers might notice – and that’s a mistake you want to avoid. . Customer Support Over the Phone Is Not Dead – The phone is still the most popular way for customers to contact a company with questions or problems.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2025

In customer support, empathy works the same way. Customers want to feel valued, not processed. Empathy bridges that gap, turning frustrated customers into loyal advocates. Empathy bridges that gap, turning frustrated customers into loyal advocates. In customer support, empathy plays a similar role.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This week we feature an article from Veronika Filipkova, a professional content editor and Chief Customer Officer at SupportYourApp. She shares different channels and strategies for creating the most convient customer support experience for your customers. Customer Support Channels to Develop in 2021.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2025

In customer support, empathy works the same way. Customers want to feel valued, not processed. Empathy bridges that gap, turning frustrated customers into loyal advocates. Empathy bridges that gap, turning frustrated customers into loyal advocates. In customer support, empathy plays a similar role.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 9, 2021

This article includes a comment that I don’t always agree with: Customer service begins where customer experience fails. Customer Service Benchmark Report – 2021 by Hiver. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author.

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ShepHyken

JULY 1, 2020

I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how three out of four customers are more loyal to your employee than your business. This research came from OnePoll on behalf of DaySmart Software.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2019

Survey: Customer experience trends 2019 by Lynne Capozzi. ClickZ) Per a recent survey, 66% of consumers globally said: “I don’t remember when a brand experience exceeded my expectations.” Human-Centered Customer Support by HubSpot & HelpScout. (I wrote a book on it!)

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ShepHyken

MAY 23, 2018

86% of surveyed customers said that if there was an emotional connection with a customer support agent and the customer felt they were cared for and valued, they would be willing to continue to do business with the company again. The numbers are different in the B2B world, as the customer may have fewer options.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In order for feedback to be effective, it should help businesses improve their services and overall customer experience. So, feedback such as: “This is great!”, “This product sucks”, or even, “Bad customer support, won’t suggest to anyone” is considered useless feedback. It tells a lot more about the experience of a customer.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And, according to Nate Spears, the Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of ClearSource, exceptional customer service is anything you do beyond that is better than just good. His company, ClearSource provides customer support via phone, email, chat and social media for companies that want to outsource their customer service.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

One of the most important parts of this process is making sure that you’re asking customers the right questions. My Comment: I’m often asked about the best survey questions. I believe quantitative survey questions, such as NPS, CSAT, etc.,

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 27, 2021

The raging pandemic situations have also changed the customer expectation to a considerable level offering many more challenges to the businesses these days. . All these discussions prove that customer loyalty should be the prime priority of businesses in order to strive and thrive in such a competitive market.

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ShepHyken

JULY 29, 2022

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. First Call Resolution is an important call center metric to determine the effectiveness of your call support staff. .

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