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You’ve read all the classic books on customer service— Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and more. But now you don’t need to spend hours reading another book, unless you’d like that. Thanks to the rise of TED talks, there are troves of great videos on YouTube where you can learn tips in just 15 minutes.
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We just published a Temkin Group report, What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017. This is our annual analysis of which companies deliver the most and least bad experiences, how consumers respond after those experience (in terms of sharing those experiences and changing their purchase behaviors), and the effect of service recovery (see last […].
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We just published a Temkin Group report, What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017. This is our annual analysis of which companies deliver the most and least bad experiences, how consumers respond after those experience (in terms of sharing those experiences and changing their purchase behaviors), and the effect of service recovery (see last […].
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Guest post by Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Author, Speaker. For a customer experience program to be effective, the most senior leaders at the company must take ownership of the program. But unless the CEO appoints a chief customer officer, a chief customer experience officer, or even a chief marketing officer who is empowered to get things done for the customer, it’s hard to say who will lobby for the customer across the organization.
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