While customer service is often considered an expenditure to be reduced as much as possible using automated messaging and chatbots, Nathalie Couët of DashThis offers an insight into how personalized service can offer an incredibly positive return-on-investment for some brands.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/machine-learning-amp-ai/chatbots-automated-messaging-and-the-death-of-customer-service/
For a fast-growing startup, that first customer experience with your product or service is crucial. It’s easy for teams to be focused entirely on the product itself and not invest in the right steps to build out good customer support practices. However, with customers expecting more and more from the companies they do business with, businesses of all sizes need to start putting their customers front and center. Not sure where to start? Here are four tips to make sure you get it right from the very start.
https://www.informationweek.com/customer-service-for-startups-get-it-right-from-the-beginning/a/d-id/1333067/
Although 81 percent of CX leaders surveyed by Gartner this past July believe CX will soon be the basis on which their companies compete, only 22 percent say their efforts are exceeding customers’ expectations. If leaders understand the importance of CX programs, why are they struggling so mightily to deliver the experiences their customers want?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/serenitygibbons/2018/10/09/customer-service-isnt-enough-3-reasons-to-switch-to-customer-success/#4c6e939244a1/
With online reviews and recommendations becoming more popular, buying decisions are being greatly impacted. Having a customer-centric approach to business is more important now than ever. To be the best, you must have the best customer service. But what does being “customer-centric” actually mean? The American Marketing Association says there are seven pillars of a customer-centric business model, so let’s unpack them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2018/09/25/how-a-customer-centric-approach-will-help-you-win-in-business/#4bc919982ee5/
Customer experience is about being able to lure in new customers through impeccable customer service, but the experience also keeps current clients with a business.
You want to use the customer experience to maintain your current client list.
Attention to detail is the key most important thing when trying to formulate a customer experience plan. Small businesses have the advantage here because attention to detail is easier when teams are smaller and relationships with clients are more intimate.
http://customerthink.com/attention-to-details-how-companies-show-clients-theyre-paying-attention/
The ability to collect massive amounts of data represented a huge leap forward in customer service and communication when customer relationship management first hit the market as a marketing, sales and data management tool.
However, CRMs weren't a holy grail. Data management is one thing. Using data to understand what customers really need (not just what you think they do) and how to engage them is another thing entirely.
CRMs were not built to be nimble. Times change, customer expectations change, and the technology needs to change with it.
https://www.crmbuyer.com/story/85487.html/
Customer experience is a dynamic journey best served by systems, workflows, and agents that continually improve. The most successful organizations set up the contact center for ongoing feedback and capture knowledge as it grows and changes. Continuous training is delivered in bite-sized sessions, incorporating both technical knowledge and personal skills development to deliver better customer service.
So, how do you create a contact center environment that both motivates agents and enables great customer experience?
http://customerthink.com/the-value-of-continuous-insights-driven-agent-feedback/
Front-end collaboration with cross-functional partners, closing the feedback data loop and hiring people who want to be customer-led are the keys to successful customer service evolution.
That at least is the secret sauce for the customer experience team at US burger chain, Wendy’s, who took to the stage at Salesforce Connections this week to share how the brand transformed its customer service management programs in order to better meet customers in the channels they want to engage through.
https://www.cmo.com.au/article/642471/how-wendy-cx-team-harnessing-social-digital-service-successfully/
Customers play a very important role in any business. They determine the growth potential of the company by sharing a better picture of what’s working and what’s not. Therefore, entrepreneurs should not overlook the importance of customer service. Your business will surely fail if you are unable to meet the needs of today's customers. The service can actually vary from company to company, but the key elements to turn customers into longtime clients are timely responses, open communication, reliability and product knowledge. One should never underestimate the importance of happy customers!
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/314733/
Bad or non-existent customer service is proven to cost more than sustainable customer experience management practices. Just look at the statistics:
+After a bad experience with a company, 22% of consumers decreased their spending and 19% completely stopped doing business with a company.
+ Compared to detractors, promoters are 4.2X more likely to buy again and 5.6X more likely to forgive a company after a mistake.
Sound impressive? It does to me. But in spite of this data, only 11% of large companies have strong customer experience programs, and 62% of companies cite inaction on customer experience (CX) metrics as their key problem.
https://blog.hubspot.com/service/customer-feedback-culture/
