Brad Cleveland Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant … Continue reading → The post 6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long, the waits to get in became longer.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By focusing on efficient service interactions, nurturing a customer-centric culture, and leveraging technology, we’ll outline how enterprises not only create a seamless and delightful customer experience but also drive business growth. Encourage employees to escalate customer concerns promptly.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This team should be responsible for ensuring alignment on company goals, customer experience, and operational priorities. A practical example is creating a steering committee that includes representatives from marketing, sales, customer service, IT, finance, and operations. The result?

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Customer Journeys Culture Leadership Effort Score 405

ECXO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At its core, a customer-centric mindset means putting the customer’s needs, preferences, and satisfaction at the heart of every decision and strategy. 119 The Assessment This assessment comprises a series of questions designed to reflect on your organization’s practices and attitudes toward customer-centricity.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s probably safe to say that few of our organizations, no matter how well-meaning, eased perfectly into these new routines of working from home and distancing ourselves physically from our workplaces, our colleagues, our teams and our customers. There is a myth that customer-centric cultures happen by intuition and a little magic.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Customers 178

ECXO

JUNE 23, 2024

” This is an excellent question, and I’m genuinely enthusiastic about discussing customer success! Transforming a standard customer service team into a highly efficient customer success team requires several essential steps. It should be a company-wide culture.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

More and more people are complaining about bad customer service. The demand for better service continues to grow, as evidenced in our customer experience research (2022 Achieving Customer Amazement study sponsored by Amazon Web Services). It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 18, 2022

Why does Customer Experience Training Matter? It’s common for Customer Experience (CX) to be misunderstood as reactive customer service, support, or even ‘just being nice to customers.’ I like to define Customer Experience as: A mindset. ’ CX is much more than these, though.

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How To Customer Journeys Culture Training 378

Vonage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Many companies that claim to offer good customer service in reality are grounded in an operations’ mentality with rules and policies that allow for little flexibility, preventing them from rising above anything more than average or satisfactory. The companies that really understand customer service have a different focus.

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Customer Focused Company Infographics Poor Customer Service 120

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? Creating and sustaining a customer-centric culture was the subject of a recent podcast. The first one was, “We put customers first.”. But guess what?

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? As we scale our businesses, our focus on customers can become seriously threatened. How do smart companies maintain a customer-centric culture as they grow? Customer Experience is…What, Exactly?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The first week of October is both Customer Service Week and the week of CX Day! This week of celebrating success through CX and better customer service is an important reminder that we all serve a role in this. But customer service has a special place in the way a customer feels about your brand!

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Customer Service Social Media NPS Customers 181

Blake Morgan

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

What does it take to scale customer-centric culture across an entire company? Employees are empowered to solve customer problems autonomously, creating a culture of trust and innovation. ” To learn more visit www.8CXLaws.com.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Vonage

MARCH 6, 2017

Along those lines, I want you to come up with a customer service promise. For some companies, their tagline is their customer service promise. For example, Zappos.com’s tagline is Powered by Service. Three words that exhibit a commitment to the customer. Sometimes that doubles as a brand promise.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As CEO and co-founder of MarketCulture Strategies , he, like everyone he associates with, is on a mission to get companies to understand the importance of customer culture: Ian. It did not take long for me to start becoming interested in the customer service elements of the business. It was vital to get it right.

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Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences. Customers hate putting in effort to get problems resolved. Customer support works better as a team sport.

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ECXO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Imagine waking up each day with the power to transform ordinary interactions into unforgettable experiences that leave a lasting impact on every customer. Your role as a CX leader is to pioneer a culture that places the customer at the heart of every decision, turning transactions into moments of delight that build unwavering loyalty.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Exercises Customer Centricity 373

ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

He was a Customer Success Manager at a well-known company, “TechEase” A traditional company in the city that has been there for decades, working in the same way they have always worked. Though TechEase was renowned for its innovative products, it was infamous for its lack of customer-centric culture.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

You need a plan and you need to take baby steps,” said Sue Martin Homes , Global VP of Customer Service at Newegg , the leading tech-focused e-retailer in North America. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player. Do you have “talk time” countdown timers in your customer service centers?

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company’s reputation for amazing customer service is almost a cliché in the customer service world. Zappos stories have become customer service legends. There are many others, and this is just one of the reasons Zappos is recognized as one of the top customer service companies on the planet.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Catchy customer service slogans are powerful tools that encapsulate a company’s commitment to customer satisfaction in a memorable phrase. When crafted carefully, a great slogan can inspire employees and elevate customer expectations. They communicate the company’s commitment to customers in a memorable way.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2019

As part of his onboarding process, Bob was put through customer service training. He learned about how to treat the company’s customers with dignity and respect. Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. So, we’ll just refer to him as Bob.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Customer service used to be viewed as the final link in the overall chain of customer touch points, a responsibility relegated to a department, contact center or automated attendant that would respond to complaints and (hopefully) eventually make things right. Leaders know that customer expectations are higher than ever.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s fairly common that as employees rise up in the organization, they get farther and farther away from the customer. They no longer have interactions with them, and rely on others like account managers, frontline employees and customer service teams to provide those one-on-one interactions.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer service as a differentiator. , Roy Atkinson shares this wonderful insight, "Tony Hsieh and his approach to customer service and CX impacted me and the industry in a big way. When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony.

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ShepHyken

MAY 19, 2021

It helps us keep customer service “front-of-mind” and is a positive way to start a meeting. By the way, this is the same exercise we teach in our customer service training programs. As mentioned, for us it’s customer service. It can be as simple as returning a call quickly or stepping in to help in a crisis.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 9, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Eight Ways Companies Can Turn A Negative Customer Experience Into A Positive One by Young Entrepreneur Council. How do you handle a bad customer service experience ? Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ECXO

JANUARY 21, 2025

Customers were starting to complain about poor customer service, confusing user manuals, and the lack of durability in newer products. The Warning Signs One day, a young employee named Sophie, who worked in the customer service department, approached Max with a report. Max dismissed these complaints.

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Customer Experience Social Media Net Promoter Score Innovation 156

Kayako

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When you think about businesses that are known for providing extraordinary customer service like Zappos, Amazon or Chick-Fil-A, they share a common trait. They’re obsessed with their customers. The brands mentioned above aren’t just shaping the customer service experience for their customers. The solution?

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ShepHyken

JULY 5, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Experience Hotel Blog) The Experience Hotel team decided to conduct a survey on the impact of the different types of emails you can send to your customers. They may even make you rethink how you email your customers.

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Customer Service Loyalty Programs Hotels Infographics 151

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Always thinking about how everything in life ties to customer service, I wondered, “What is a good recipe for customer service?” The Right Culture : This is where it starts. Leadership defines the customer service and CX vision for everyone to follow. So, I’ve listed some of the essential ingredients.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Customer experience in credit unions Credit union members expect smoother interactions than ever before. Follow these steps to enhance their satisfaction levels: Provide omnichannel customer support. Offer 24/7 customer service across multiple channels, including mobile apps, social media, chatbots, and live chat.

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Banking Customer Experience Effort Score Financial 195

ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Interviews for CX: How to Conduct Interviews & How They Can Make a Difference by Jeannie Walters. Experience Investigators) Customer interviews can highlight issues in emotional ways.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 28, 2025

We Want Satisfied Customers: Our annual customer service research found that one in four (23%) dont return to a business that just satisfies them. Only the Front Line Needs Customer Service Training: Everybody in an organization is responsible for their role in customer service. Its something you do.

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Loyalty Programs Customer Service Training Training Culture 90

CloudCherry

AUGUST 22, 2019

As he says, “The company that can add convenience to already good customer service has an opportunity to disrupt their competition- maybe even an industry.” Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations. Now, THAT’s the sweet stuff. Listen Now!

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