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Recently my family became urban chicken farmers. After six weeks living in an indoor “coop” under a heat lamp, our new pets were ready to move outside. Our next step: get a coop. We turned to the Internet to do our shopping. After a week of searching, we picked one out, clicked and ordered. It […]
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People are creatures of habit — they enjoy knowing what something is going to be and then having it be that way. As a result, people’s happiness with any given experience is usually based on the expectations they have carried into it. This makes consistency of service a fundamental attribute of excellence of service. Below
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“I’m busy right now. Let me call you back.” This is a statement that one can be very forgiving of when it comes from a long-time friend but not so forgiving of when it comes from a company. But is that changing? According to this recent survey by Software Advice, customers are starting to appreciate
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After reading an advance copy of Bob Thompson’s new book Hooked on Customers, I knew I wanted to connect with Bob and find out more about some of the insights from his book. I was particularly interested in the five organizational habits that he centers the book around. In the interview below, Bob gives us
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Monday content for the Memorial Day holiday here in the United States. Each citizen observes and celebrates Memorial Day in their own way. Today, I will simply shine a spotlight on two veteran-related charities that I feel deserve more attention. Wounded Warrior Project Vision: To foster the most successful, well-adjusted
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Jeff Toister is the author of Service Failure: The Real Reasons Employees Struggle with Customer Service and What You Can Do About It. His company, Toister Performance Solutions, Inc. helps clients identify the obstacles keeping them from achieving customer service success. Jeff recently launched his new customer service video training series with lynda.com, and I
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I was staying at a large hotel chain in the Southwest United States earlier this week and received an unfortunate but stark reminder of how minor customer experience mishaps, delivered in succession, can accumulate for a major brand impact. For someone who speaks and writes about customer experience and customer service, I feel I am
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A “customer” can be defined in different ways, as can a “client.” How do you know when a customer is a client, or the other way around? Should you treat a customer any differently than you would a client? Does it even matter? The answer is, it depends. But before we weigh in on the
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As we touched on recently in the The Magic Number in Customer Experience is Two, we can easily get sucked into data, cohorts, personas, analytics and the like and forget about the individual nature of our customers’ experiences. On the front lines and on the Internet, one customer can have a marked impact on our organizations.
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I’ve been working on some of the early chapters for my frontline customer service book this month, and one of the topics I’ve been focused on is the importance of a good customer service mindset. Crucial to this mindset is the fundamental belief that we are there to serve our customers. At its most basic
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