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June 17, 2019 9:52 AM
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You Can't Be an 'Evolutionary' Leader Until You Tap Into This 1 Key Resource

You Can't Be an 'Evolutionary' Leader Until You Tap Into This 1 Key Resource | Guest Service | Scoop.it
As founder, you had the idea for your company -- but that doesn't mean your ideas alone can push your company forward.
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June 3, 2019 8:44 AM
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Here Are the 5 Essential Standards of Customer Listening

Here Are the 5 Essential Standards of Customer Listening | Guest Service | Scoop.it
In the last decade I’ve seen and run a lot of Customer Listening programs. Here’s the one thing I know for sure: good Customer Listening always meets the same 5 standards. Meeting these standards achieves dependable, high-insight data. Failing to meet these standards often steers companies off course.
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May 20, 2019 9:57 AM
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Customer Service Transformation: The Role of AI & Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)

Customer Service Transformation: The Role of AI & Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) | Guest Service | Scoop.it
CS leaders, faced with increasing internal pressures and accountability, need to prioritize and improve digital experiences, and explore digital applications to improve operational efficiency. This has increased the complexity of CS leaders’ portfolio and has, at the same time, made the customer service function strategic.
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May 20, 2019 9:52 AM
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A Blueprint for Getting and Keeping Customers (Hint: Make it Ridiculously Easy)

A Blueprint for Getting and Keeping Customers (Hint: Make it Ridiculously Easy) | Guest Service | Scoop.it
As it turns out, they laid out a terrific blueprint for getting and keeping customers.
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May 13, 2019 9:01 AM
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How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage

How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage | Guest Service | Scoop.it
How Leaders Create Engagement A decent product at a fair price with good customer service may once have been enough. No longer. The bar has moved. Employees and customers want organizations to do some social good along the way. My
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A great article on how corporate social responsibility is harnessed to achieve competitive advantage. It discusses the link between the brand, purpose and contribution and ensuring these are all inter-connected in business operations, which will ensure that customers view the authenticity. 
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May 6, 2019 10:47 AM
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Which Is Most Important, Perception or Performance?

Which Is Most Important, Perception or Performance? | Guest Service | Scoop.it
For those who believe that perception is reality, performance isn’t important, but perceived performance is everything.

There are three ways to improve perceived performance:
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Fascinating discussion -- interesting details.

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April 22, 2019 10:13 AM
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10 Things that you can do to improve the employee experience

10 Things that you can do to improve the employee experience | Guest Service | Scoop.it
TINYpulse recently published their 2019 Employee Engagement Report titled The End of Employee Loyalty.

With reputedly one of the largest databases in the world for employee feedback, they are well positioned to provide real insights into employee engagement trends.
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April 15, 2019 4:53 PM
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Your Customers Have Questions. But Are You Actually Listening?

Your Customers Have Questions. But Are You Actually Listening? | Guest Service | Scoop.it
That remuneration plan -- a good idea in theory -- had unfortunate, unintended consequences. Unbeknownst to senior leadershp, employees on the front line had figured out how to artificially inflate the numbers to optimize their bonuses (a problem we had discovered two days earlier during a customer experience audit). 
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April 9, 2019 12:00 PM
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Break the Catch 22: 3 Tips to Delight Customers and Avoid Detractors

Break the Catch 22: 3 Tips to Delight Customers and Avoid Detractors | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Social media has a tremendous power to create legions of brand advocates or destroy all good will, seemingly overnight.
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March 25, 2019 9:00 AM
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Build an Emotional Bond with your Customers using Experiential Marketing 

Build an Emotional Bond with your Customers using Experiential Marketing  | Guest Service | Scoop.it
For brands then, creating emotional buy-in from their target customers means securing a reliable income for future years. Of course, this is easier said than done. So how can brands engage customers and build the emotional connection needed to ensure success?

Enter experiential marketing.
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March 18, 2019 9:33 AM
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The Future of Experiences in Asia

The Future of Experiences in Asia | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Understand new global and regional consumer trends and uncover innovation opportunities
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March 4, 2019 9:00 AM
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The Real Secret Behind Growing Brand Trust With Customers

This article discusses the best strategies and approaches to build meaningful trust with your customers that will lead to higher sales and greater loyalty.
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February 26, 2019 3:33 AM
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Be a Leader Regardless of Title: Service is a Choice

Be a Leader Regardless of Title: Service is a Choice | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Every person can lead. Our starting point being self-leadership: taking responsibility for our decisions, standing by our principles and beliefs, holding strong to our values such as honesty and integrity, and challenging ourselves to be our best.
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June 10, 2019 9:32 AM
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Why Every Business Leader Needs to Experience How a Customer Feels

When was the last time, as a business leader, you stepped into your own customers’ shoes? Have you attended a focus group or met personally with an end-user or customer recently? How much time do you spend getting close to your customers, I mean really close? If the only feedback you get on customers is indirect, from third parties, from reports or from statistics, then it’s time to get out of the boardroom and take time to experience your own company or brand, the way that your customers do.
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This is such an important article that it is the ONLY one I'll post this week.  As someone who's conducted 1000's of management and customer service workshops, I never worked for a client without first, taking the $5 tour (not the 5 cent tour) AND, whenever possible not just being a customer of the business, but working in one or more jobs -- working not just shadowing.  

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May 27, 2019 9:00 AM
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Policies Are No Excuse For a Poor Candidate or Employee Experience

Policies Are No Excuse For a Poor Candidate or Employee Experience | Guest Service | Scoop.it
The employee experience is getting our attention today. There are ways to stop rules and policies from having negative effects on candidates.
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May 20, 2019 9:53 AM
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A Surefire Blueprint for Losing Customers

A Surefire Blueprint for Losing Customers | Guest Service | Scoop.it
if you’re interested in learning how to lose customers (hopefully none of you), here’s the exact blueprint for doing so in just a seven easy steps.
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May 13, 2019 9:22 AM
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More Than Just A Rep - The Modern Customer Service Job

Today’s companies understand how customer service plays a critical role in their efforts to be “customer-centric”—it’s why many of them……
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May 13, 2019 9:00 AM
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This Hilarious Customer Story Shows the 1 Brutal Difference Between Apple and Google

This Hilarious Customer Story Shows the 1 Brutal Difference Between Apple and Google | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Some tech companies will never get what they need to get.
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April 29, 2019 10:59 AM
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Fall in Love With Your Customer’s Pain Points—Not With Your Solutions

Fall in Love With Your Customer’s Pain Points—Not With Your Solutions | Guest Service | Scoop.it
It’s human nature to fall in love with your solutions. It’s also a common pitfall for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and those responsible for improving customer experiences.
Don’t.
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April 22, 2019 10:09 AM
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Is It Worth Winning Back Lost Customers?

Is It Worth Winning Back Lost Customers? | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Why the answer may not always be yes, and how to know when to say no
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April 15, 2019 2:57 PM
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Is Your Customer Engagement Strategy Irritating Your Customers?

Is Your Customer Engagement Strategy Irritating Your Customers? | Guest Service | Scoop.it
89% of companies compete based predominantly on customer experience, yet many get it wrong by overcomplicating the customer journey – doing too much with too little focus and very little connection between moving parts.
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April 1, 2019 9:00 AM
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Employee Experience Must Mirror the Customer Experience

Employee Experience Must Mirror the Customer Experience | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Employee experience is important for recruiting and retention. Job candidates can develop expectations based on their customer experience.
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March 25, 2019 9:00 AM
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How Better Service Can Reverse the Trend of Declining Customer Satisfaction

How Better Service Can Reverse the Trend of Declining Customer Satisfaction | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Still, keeping high and steady customer satisfaction rates is now more difficult than ever.
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March 11, 2019 9:18 AM
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The real key to retail growth is last mile delivery

The real key to retail growth is last mile delivery | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Those consumers place a high priority on being able to order through an app and then getting timely delivery, so much so that 40 percent of online shoppers are willing to pay extra for same-day delivery, and 25 percent would pay more to get packages within a one- or two-hour window of their choosing.
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This article has a lot of key points about "last mile delivery," but this paragraph shows how the expectation is continuing to rise!

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March 4, 2019 9:00 AM
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I'm Amtrak-ted to You: A Valentine’s Day Social Analytics Case Study

I'm Amtrak-ted to You: A Valentine’s Day Social Analytics Case Study | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Valentine's Day can be hit or miss on social. How do brands capture some love? Let's see how Amtrak approached the holiday, and what we can learn from their Valentine's campaign.
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