Advisory Board Member
Shep Hyken
Shep Hyken is a customer experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in the speaking profession. Shep works with companies and organizations who want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees. For more articles on customer service and business go to http://www.hyken.com.
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Customer Experience Lesson from a Superstar Athlete
Recognized as one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game, Earvin “Magic” Johnson is also successful in business, perhaps even more so. He is known for guiding typical suburban businesses into urban America.
You Can Be a Customer Service Hero (Don’t Miss the Opportunity!)
Want to find more opportunities to shine? Don’t just look for problems or wait for emergencies—make it a point to give customers a little more of your time. Customers who receive extra will go away feeling that you are a hero.
Focus on the Customer, Not the Money
Striving to take your business to the next level of success? Perhaps it’s time to refocus. Stop worrying so much about the sale, and just take care of the customer. Whether the customer is buying right now or not, if you deliver the best service you can, eventually the sale will come.
Use Social Media to Reach Customers in New Ways
Social media is a great customer service tool that is rarely used to its full potential. While companies may monitor sites such as Facebook and Twitter to know what customers are saying about them, they don’t often take full advantage of those sites to deliver value-added content.
Operationalizing a Customer Service Culture
Building the ideal corporate culture doesn’t happen by chance. If you are a leader of a company or organization and you want to instill a customer service culture, how do you make it happen?
5 Customer Service Tactics to Increase Sales
To be truly effective, customer service must permeate the culture of a company. It is everyone’s job. Hire the right people for the job—selling and serving the customer—and train and motivate them to engage with each customer to provide an amazing customer service experience.
The Two Sides of Customer Service Training
For any business to deliver good customer service, its employees must have both the attitude and the skills. The best companies know this, and through hiring and training make sure their employees have both.
If Customers Can Own Our Brand, They Can Also Own Our Business
Is a customer loyalty program really a loyalty program? Does the typical customer enrolled in the program feel some sort of connection beyond the rewards, points or discounts they receive?
Customer Service Must Be Deeply Rooted in Company’s Culture
The bottom line is that to be the best place to buy you must be the best place to work. Here is your best tactic: Treat your employees the way you want your customers to be treated—maybe even better!
A Bad Customer Service Example Set by a Manager
Learning experiences are everywhere, and in customer service, you can learn from the bad experiences as well as the good. I had a bad experience the other night, while having dinner at a favorite restaurant.