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The Number One Customer Service Strategy

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Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times, bestselling business author. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs, go to www.thecustomerfocus.com. The post The Number One Customer Service Strategy appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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Customer Service Strategy: Your Brand in Action

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But if you ask them what their customer service strategy is, you’ll probably get blank stares. Here are two realities worth pondering: Every company communicates something about itself through customer service. Customers remember how they were treated far more than they remember your images and ads.

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Brand Slogans as CX Promises: How to Build Lasting Customer Loyalty

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While Enterprise has been picking up its customers since the early 1970s, it officially trademarked the slogan in 1994. Costco: “Satisfaction Guaranteed” – If you’re a Costco member, you most likely have experienced its stellar customer service and liberal, customer-focused return policy.

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Let’s Play 20 Customer Experience (CX) Questions – Part One

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EVERY interaction your customers experience. Based on the experiences customers have with the best customer-focused brands, they continue to get smarter about CX and will demand more from you. So, lets get right into it: In five words or less, what does CX mean to you? Five words are not easy!) So be ready.

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How to Learn About Your Customers’ Complaints – Even When They Don’t Tell You

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If customers are frustrated by your competitions complicated return policies, make sure you arent guilty of the same. Share insights with your team and use them to stay customer-focused and ahead of your competition. This isnt a do it once exercise. Take time each quarter maybe even each month to examine this type of feedback.

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This Halloween, 10 Ways to Scare Your Competition and Steal Their Customers

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Always Available – Even with AI and digital support as good as they are today, customers may still want to talk to a human. Empowered Employees – Customers want to work with employees who can make good customer-focused decisions and don’t have to ask a manager whenever there is a unique or special request.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of September 19, 2016

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Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Customer Service Strategies Behind Zappos’s Success by Sharpen. TCFCR) Here are my ten tips for making customers feel welcome. favorite is the first one, which is to “Give customers hope.”

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