Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

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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Vonage

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Culture is reflected in how people behave. It is a given if you want to change your culture, you must change behaviors. Leadership has to be focused on the strategies that will have a lasting impact on the customer-focused culture. Stay focused to engage. Train beyond the task.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Customer Experience Leaders Have a Global Customer Focus. Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about so much call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. Share the best stuff! Get to the root cause.

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Integrity Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s easy to say that we put the customer first, but what does that actually look like in practice? In the past, customer service centers were viewed as cost centers or expenses. Today, the organizations that are delivering a superior customer experience are proving just how outdated that perspective is.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Drawing inspiration from my experiences and insights into the evolving dynamics of customer interactions, let’s explore five pivotal strategies that can elevate your small business from being good to unforgettable.

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Help.com

OCTOBER 13, 2014

A customer-centered company culture is overwhelmingly resistant to being knocked off by your competition. At Apple, insiders credit much of the company’s success in retailing to the cultural fit Apple looks for and inspires in its personnel. That service is based on a corporate culture.

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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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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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Helping Companies & Organizations Create an Amazing Customer-Focused Culture by CXO Magazine This week, we’re starting the Top Five roundup with a Bonus article. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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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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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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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2017

To kick off the start of 2017 I could share my “Top Seventeen Ways to Deliver Great Customer Service in 2017.” One of the most important ways to improve customer service is to make sure that everyone in an organization (company) is in alignment with the customer service and/or experience vision.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

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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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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Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. Last week, I suggested quick wins that could improve your customer service and customer experience.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 11, 2018

His plea was, “We are so NOT customer-focused, and we need to be!” He then shared what may be one of the most crystal-clear examples of the difference between a company that is customer focused and one that isn’t. Whether you’re customer-focused or not, this exercise is helpful.

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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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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Customer Satisfaction 348

Eptica

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Building a strong customer-focused service culture. Essentially, it recommends building a service culture based on 5 key principles: 1). That is a big cultural shift for many organizations. Published on: February 22, 2017. But how do you achieve this?

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 6, 2024

From reshaping ingrained company cultures to harnessing the power of big data, I’ll explore how industry leaders like Toyota, Salesforce, Target and Netflix have successfully navigated these challenges. times higher customer retention and 1.9 times higher customer retention and 1.9 times higher average order value.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Being customer focused is all about making sure your relationships revolve around your clients and lead to their satisfaction. Many shoppers who have negative experiences want to switch to another organization that has better service, and when word gets out, this can be detrimental to your company. Get the Education You Need.

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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

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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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Fostering a Culture of Commitment When employees feel their work contributes to a greater purpose, they are more likely to engage fully with the company’s goals. Create Clear Roadmaps: Developing roadmaps that connect individual roles with company and customer outcomes increases engagement.

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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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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 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

JUNE 30, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. CX Makeover: 11 Ways to Improve Customer Experience by Ken McMahon (Nextiva) Employees interact with customers every day and are a valuable source of CX knowledge. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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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 155

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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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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ijgolding

MARCH 10, 2016

I speak and write regularly about the increasing addition of the word ‘customer’ to the typical vocabulary of business leaders. The underlying culture of an organisation will determine how it lives, breathes and behaves – the organisation itself and the people that make and represent it. So what exactly can you do?

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ECXO

JULY 23, 2024

But what does it really mean to be a servant leader, and how does this leadership approach contribute to the success of customer-focused organizations? As a result, this creates an environment where employees feel valued, motivated, and empowered to deliver outstanding customer service. What is the Servant Leader?

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Customers That Stick

MAY 22, 2015

We wish that changing a customer service culture could be like turning a Jet Ski®. We all wish that changing a customer service culture happened that way. Changing a a customer service culture, particularly in a large organization, is more akin to turning around a container ship.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 1, 2020

First, we all have two responsibilities: do the job we were hired to do and also take care of the customer. I may have been a cashier, but I also knew that my job, beyond collecting money, was to take care of my customers. Second, a boss can kill the customer service buzz. If it’s right, coach them to do more of the same.

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