Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 25, 2015
Performance reviews are part of most employer/employee relationships. However, recent developments show that improving employee experience involves finding new ways to give employees feedback to improve motivation and success. Annual reviews are likely to get a resigned sigh out of most managers. After a less than insightful review, most employees might sigh as well.
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 31, 2015
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Much has been said and written about the “ secret to customer service ”. Do this, don’t do that. Customers want this and don’t like it when you do that. Many offer some great, and probably very useful, ideas that will fix the issues of service. Well, I don’t know about “the secret” but here are my rules to end bad customer service. 1 ► If you can’t relate in a pleasant professional manner with people that want to giv
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Callminer
AUGUST 20, 2015
How can contact centers leverage social media to improve the customer experience? Quicker response times, one-to-one engagement, and sentiment analysis & social listening are a few ways. Read more.
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 19, 2015
Restaurants are one of the few truly universal industries because almost everyone has familiarity with them. From a customer service perspective, this makes restaurant customer service particularly challenging because almost every customer has both established service expectations and well-formed service triggers. Those expectations are often pegged to price or to impressions created by the physical environment.
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Joe Rawlinson
AUGUST 12, 2015
The University of Southern California defines consumer psychology as the study of how consumers are influenced by their environment about how they think, feel, reason and select between different brands, products and retailers. It’s humbling to think that emotions are the driving force behind sales instead of logic, but study after study shows spending happens more in a state of euphoria.
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 20, 2015
Your brain makes up 3% of your total body weight. However that 3% of your body weight takes 20% of your body’s energy to run. As highly evolved humans, we are always looking for ways to preserve energy, and one of the ways we do this is relying on habit. It’s important for Marketers to understand customers’ habits when marketing to them. We engage in habits every day.
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 27, 2015
it's really easy This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?” The youth replied, throwing starfish back into the ocean. “The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”.
C3Centricity
AUGUST 23, 2015
Posts which include quotes are amongst the most shared on social media. Everyone seems to love them. This is because they are short, simple and often inspiring. They also usually fit conveniently into the 140 word limit of Twitter posts. C³Centricity is no exception; our marketing quote posts are always the most popular, year after year. [.]. The post How to Use Marketing Quotes to Inspire and Catalyse Action appeared first on C3Centricity.
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 11, 2015
Twitter understands that it is often a channel for immediate customer response, and it is not only embracing its role as a customer service channel but beginning to focus on selling itself as an indispensable channel for customer service. On August 6 th , Twitter released a Customer Service Playbook designed to convince organizations of Twitter’s importance as a customer service channel and to demonstrate how they can use the channel to generate effective results with customers.
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Bill Quiseng
AUGUST 10, 2015
Micah Solomon is a customer service and marketing speaker, strategist, and author of the book, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service. Ever since reading his book, I have been following his customer experience articles on Forbes. So when he recently published an ebook entitled Culture Of Yes: Practices And Principles Of Great Hospitality , I was all over it.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 25, 2015
According to the American Express Global Customer Service Barometer, customers are twice as likely to share bad customer service experiences than positive ones. Unfortunately a bad review can take hard work to reverse. Parature’s infographic shows it takes 12 positive customer service experience to make up for one negative one. Businesses can stay ahead of […].
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 6, 2015
A definite link exists between Employee Engagement and Customer Experience. In spite of this, many organizations choose to keep their Employee Engagement programs and their Customer Engagement programs separate. However, linking the two areas is key to having success in both. Aetna made headlines when they gave their lowest-paid workers a raise to $16/hr.
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 24, 2015
and you want me to pay $5 for this? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. I remember the days, and they weren’t that long ago, when you could stop into any diner or coffee shop and ask for a “regular or light & sweet” and have the coffee prepared perfectly and placed in front of you within 15 seconds. Now, the local coffee shop has been replaced with the superstar coffee shops that have every imaginable named version of burnt coffee that costs $5 each.
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C3Centricity
AUGUST 9, 2015
Last week I spoke about five of the most important actions you can take when starting your journey to improved customer centricity. If you missed it, you can read the post here. It will make a good background to this week’s ideas and suggestions. In this post, I would like to continue to support your efforts with some [.]. The post Connect with Customers for World-Class Understanding: 4 “Free” Ways for Every Business appeared first on C3Centricity.
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 4, 2015
We’ve all had that awkward moment. We’re shopping in a store or asking about the product we ordered, and the frontline rep we’re interacting with starts to overshare. We hear about their life story, about the seven week saga that led to the order being delayed, or about how much they hate their job. It’s a case of TMI (too much information), and in customer service, it can be deadly.
ijgolding
AUGUST 20, 2015
I was inspired to create my own methodology for writing Customer Experience Reviews by reading and watching the plethora of infamous restaurant critics who are regularly in the public eye. Apart from the fact that I have always been envious of anyone who gets PAID to eat in the best restaurants all over the world, I wanted to not just critique organisations I interact with, but to create a way of reviewing Customer Experiences to help others understand the significance of the ‘end to end&#
Win the Customer
AUGUST 1, 2015
Like many aspects of business, customer service is an ever-evolving part of everyday operations that is constantly changed by developments in technology. Customer expectations have changed in the information age, and many businesses are falling behind – Fonolo reports that only 26 percent of consumers had a positive response when asked if they thought customer […].
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 18, 2015
I often say people are irrational, but only because they are. We all do irrational things. We like to think we make logical decisions based on rational thinking all the time, but we don’t. The truth is, your mind plays tricks on you every day, and many times, it’s in one of three ways. In “ Thinking Fast and Slow ,” Professor Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient in 2002, explores why our mind plays tricks on us.
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 17, 2015
you gotta be kidding, right? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. There are countless websites that tout the benefits and importance of “ hiring right “ Hire for attitude then train for the skills, is talked about. Hire for experience, you can’t put enough value on experience or hire for the “right fit” within your existing company culture.
ClearAction
AUGUST 29, 2015
3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. Most things in life need ALL their ingredients to function as intended. Miss the eggs in a cake recipe, forget earbuds for your iPod nano, omit the submit button on a form, arrive at an airport without your luggage, get no sleep in a 24-hour period — you get the picture. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop.
Kayako
AUGUST 13, 2015
Many companies face the same challenge with their customer support team: how to prevent the support staff from leaving. Common reasons for this boil down to burnout, the feeling of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment. Failure to successfully prevent these will lead in your support staff to be unhappy, dissatisfied with opportunities for personal growth and eventually want to leave the team altogether.
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ijgolding
AUGUST 4, 2015
The summer holidays are upon us. Sun. Sea. Fabulous Food. Fun. Friends. I am sure there are many more words that spring to mind when thinking about holidays planned both at home and abroad. The words I have chosen to use are all positive ones – exactly what should be used when thinking about a time every year that we most look forward to. Holidays are a time when MEMORIES are made, captured on every digital device imaginable as well as hard wired into our brains.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 14, 2015
One of the most frustrating elements of customer service online is a service provider with a terrible Website. Nothing says you don’t care about your customers or their customer experience more than by not investing in the right online experience or letting your Website commit the unpardonable sins of bad Web experience. How important is […].
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 12, 2015
Should I feel like this? New Research. Wouldn’t it be great to know exactly what your Customers were feeling when they experience your products or services? Well, that day has come a bit closer as a new study out of Cornell University discovers that the brain has certain codes that it uses to interpret our emotions. It turns out that these codes are not unique to the individual.
Steve DiGioia
AUGUST 20, 2015
Guest post from Tony Johnson - Customer Service Speaker & Author This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Ever feel like those serving you are just mailing it in? I feel like that fairly often – and having worked in the service industry for two decades, I tend to grade on a curve since I know how hard it is. I know five hundred things that can go wrong before the doors open and the pitfalls of dealing with labor issues, productivity targets, and supply chain difficulties.
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PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 27, 2015
Selling in the business-to-business (B2B) space is complicated. In fact, if you watch a B2B sales manager for any length of time, there’s a 97.4% chance s/he’ll stare longingly out the window, sigh, and dream about selling in a retail setting. OK, I made up that statistic. (But I’m 97.4% sure it’s true.). A B2B sales manager’s job is essentially to coax a prospect into buying a problem-solving machine.
Nimble
AUGUST 4, 2015
You’re waiting in line at a clothing store. The only element that stands between you and your receipt is the little old lady in front of you screeching about why she should be allowed to returned her year old moccasins. She claimed she never used them. That she never took strolls around the block in [.].
Kayako
AUGUST 20, 2015
Who loves training sessions? Support reps get a lot of training sessions from the moment they start their job: for product training, new feature launches, soft skills and communication. This is great. This gives them a solid baseline for doing their jobs. But at some point, training starts to become less and less effective. They also become less interesting to the reps themselves.
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