Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Loyalty is one of the most overused phrases in business today. To most companies, it invariably means “customers give us all their money.” But that is not what loyalty is. So, today we’re going to talk about the five rules that will build customer loyalty. Or you can listen to the latest episode of my podcast here. Before we get into the rules, let’s talk about what loyalty is.
Steve DiGioia
OCTOBER 3, 2021
I dropped my car off at the dealership the other day for a minor repair. I didn’t know what to expect since this is my first time using them. Two hours later I got the call that it was ready to be picked up. How wonderful this was. The repair was done quickly and soon I’d “be back on the road”. I guess I couldn’t ask for more. But something happened that made me disappointed in the service.
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 14, 2021
In 1918, calls were coming in faster than customer service workers could manage. A global pandemic was driving people to rely on technology instead of interacting face-to-face. That increased reliance on technology placed an extraordinary burden on the shoulders of customer service workers. The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic revolutionized how telephone switchboard operators dealt with […].
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 6, 2021
I was recently interviewed by Mario Martinez on his Modern Selling podcast. He shared a story about how he emailed the CEO of a company, and in an incredibly short amount of time, his phone rang, and you can guess who it was … the CEO. . In a state of shock, instead of launching into the reason for the complaint email , my friend asked him, “How are you?
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Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Oh, wow! Day 3 of Customer Service Week was fun! I shared ten super-energizers that are fantastic for Customer Service Week and beyond! If you missed the live event, no worries. We’ve got you covered with the replay below. Join us at 9am ET tomorrow live!
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Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Is Customer Experience dying? Maybe it is. At the very least, Customer Experience is dying as we know it. I recently discussed whether Customer Experience is dying on LinkedIn Live with two other Customer Experience champions, Joe Pine, co-author of The Experience Economy , and Lewis Carbone, Customer Experience expert and speaker, and founder of ExpereinceEngineering.
Steve DiGioia
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The only reason a business hires someone is that they have a job that needs to be done and they need someone to do it. If they hire you, you get paid for your efforts. You are not promised lifetime employment, nor do you need to offer it to them. There is mutual agreement of cooperation on both sides created by the efforts of each. A business can and will dictate work rules and responsibilities.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Everyone knows the workplace is now dominated by millennials, with Generation Z close at their heels. But that doesn’t mean baby boomers (or Generation X employees, for that matter) are leaving anytime soon. In fact, older employees—even some from the silent generation—are tenaciously hanging on to their place in the workforce. And that’s a really […].
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 1, 2021
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. He writes about what automated customer service can do for your business. Customer service automation isn’t a new deal for businesses. It has built a stable reputation for itself in the past decade.?
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Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 7, 2021
My son brought in an enormous box from Salesforce Service Cloud 360 full of goodies! Watch me unbox that surprise here. #servicetrailblazers #customerserviceweek [link]. Oh, my gosh! This is amazing! .
TechSee
OCTOBER 5, 2021
With drivers queued up for hours waiting for petrol and station after station simply out of fuel, Britain’s fuel crisis is making headlines. But this time, the issue isn’t a global pandemic or foreign political unrest that has caused some petrol stations to introduce a £30 cap on the amount of petrol people can buy. Believe it or not, it’s the lack of lorry drivers.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 2, 2021
A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. If I had a more efficient family and less expensive friends than you have now, would you like to trade? I can guarantee they will save you time and money.
CCNG
OCTOBER 29, 2021
We’ve all heard how 2020 is the year everything changed. Well, what if a story about a Tex-Mex restaurant in Dallas highlights how NOT everything changed? In a recent CCNG Town Hall, Rick Denton helped walk the community through key elements of customer experience that were fundamental pre-pandemic as well as during the pandemic, and will remain fundamental post-pandemic.
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The closure of non-essential shops, remote working and online social gatherings has been the norm for over a year. However, while it might have felt like the pandemic was driving us closer to some sort of digital utopia, it has become apparent that neither businesses nor consumers are quite ready for things to transform to […].
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Many years ago, my daughter and I were in our basement, and she found an old typewriter. She looked at it with amazement and asked, “Dad, what’s this?” I explained it was what we used before computers and keyboards were invented. We would type letters and thank-you notes on a piece of paper, without spell-check. She asked if she could play with it. It kept her busy for days.
Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Several people have written in looking for help to improve the friendliness factor in phone calls. They reach out to me because they’ve gotten feedback or a warning from a supervisor that if they don’t turn things around, their jobs could be in jeopardy. So what makes a person sound friendly over the phone? Turns out, it’s easy to sound friendly with customers.
Bill Quiseng
OCTOBER 10, 2021
As a customer service professional, you have been told by your supervisor to interact with all customers as if they are the customer persona. Of course, it is easier to have one of your customer personas. A persona is the general image of customer personalities. A persona is many customers wrapped all in one. But a customer is just one individual. Unlike a customer persona, each customer is different from the other.
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Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 23, 2021
Back in 1994, Steve Jobs introduced a concept at an Apple conference: that the design of their products should begin at the desired Customer Experience and work backward from there. Not long after that, Joe Pine co-authored a book called The Experience Economy , that changed the way at looked at the future of business. In 2002, I began my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy, a term a bandied about long before anyone even knew what it was.
CCNG
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Every contact center or customer experience leader comes to that fork in the road where you have to conduct a self-assessment with that perennial question “How good are we?” That may seem like a tough question in today’s world of constant disruptions, workforce displacement and shifting consumer habits. I want to advocate for a different approach to that self-assessment process that doesn’t require an investment of time or limited resources.
Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 20, 2021
There are more ways than ever for customers to interact with a company—from chatbots to text, email and even social media. But despite the rise of new digital communication channels, voice still reigns as king when it comes to sales and customer support. The problem with voice is that, historically when a call ends, the […].
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 27, 2021
“I’m sorry.” Customers love to hear those important words, especially when they are calling about a problem or have a complaint. I briefly covered this in a recent article ( The Five Best Things to Say to an Angry or Upset Customer ), but I want to dive into the “I’m sorry” comment a little deeper. . Not long ago I called a customer support center and early in the conversation the agent said, “I’m sorry you are experiencing this problem.
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Myra Golden Media
OCTOBER 20, 2021
People in my workshops ask, “What do I say when a customer threatens suicide?” Customers in distress are stressful for customer support teams. When customers threaten self-harm or harm to others, they’ve taken the interaction outside the boundary of sincere conversation. Understand this. You’re not trained to handle people in crisis.
Steve DiGioia
OCTOBER 31, 2021
In the service industry, problems happen every day. An employee makes a mistake, and the customer is, at best, disappointed. Or angry, at worst. It’s inevitable. It happens. It’s part of any operation that has many “moving” parts. “Service recovery”, a company’s resolution of a problem from a dissatisfied customer, comes next. Your job is to get it fixed, then clam up.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 21, 2021
We know from industry research and personal experience that despite all the attention on it, Customer Experience is either stagnating or not getting the results CEO’s desire. Some might say it is because of COVID, but I don’t think so. . Having managed over 3,500 people in contact centers in my previous career, I was sympathetic of organizations at the start of the pandemic.
Callminer
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The question should be, “does one company do that better or more powerfully than the competition?” For CallMiner, our solution, with a logical blend of AI and heuristics, is the best on the market.
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Contact Center Pipeline
OCTOBER 19, 2021
I am taking liberties with Zoom’s brand name, as it appears that the masses use the word Zoom as a noun, referring to video meetings in general. This is true even when using Teams, Skype, Webex, etc., and so it shall be here. We have all spent an enormous amount of time in Zoom meetings […].
ShepHyken
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. What Kind of CX Do Customers Really Want? by Eric Krapf. (No Jitter) Many customers still prefer email and voice channels for customer service requests over chatbots.
Fonolo
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Emotional intelligence has always been a hot topic in the customer service world. As contact centers across the world continue to recover and adapt from the aftershock of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become clear that empathy isn’t just a trend customer support teams need to embrace – it needs to be part of your operational foundations.
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