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September 2, 2013 10:27 AM
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Can Social Media Make Customers More Civilized?

Can Social Media Make Customers More Civilized? | Guest Service | Scoop.it
The same platforms that make complaints go viral can also expose unflattering customer excess.
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September 2, 2013 10:06 AM
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Four Seasons Hotels: Building A Hospitality And Customer Service Culture

Four Seasons Hotels: Building A Hospitality And Customer Service Culture | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Four Seasons Hotels: Building A Hospitality And Customer Service Culture Forbes When I started my career as a customer service and hospitality consultant and keynote speaker, I assumed I'd be hired by companies with desperately bad customer...
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August 19, 2013 10:14 AM
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How to Achieve Great Customer Service as a Customer Company ...

How to Achieve Great Customer Service as a Customer Company ... | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Your customers are on the web, in your store, and talking to your sales associates. They're using local, social, and touch apps wherever they go. They have questions about your products and services and today those ...
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August 12, 2013 3:23 PM
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How Apple Stores Can Keep From Turning Sour

How Apple Stores Can Keep From Turning Sour | Guest Service | Scoop.it
What follows is a customer experience cautionary tale, illustrating the kind of lapse that can happen even at a company with a global reputation for being customer-centric.
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August 7, 2013 9:38 AM
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Is Anyone Listening? A quick service tale

Is Anyone Listening? A quick service tale | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Walking out to the supermarket with a bag in each hand, I felt “pain” as I took a step. It was like a snap in my foot and PAIN, like a pinch – ouch! I got to the car and drove home.  My foot was sw...
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August 7, 2013 9:25 AM
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Casino Train the Trainer Praised By Participant

Casino Train the Trainer Praised By Participant | Guest Service | Scoop.it
A recent Casino Train the Trainer participant shared this testimonial with us.  Thank you, Paula, for the kind words.
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I like this for so many reasons:  an organization doing customer service training and doing it seriously.  A "different" training experience, something I've tried to do in the programs I've conducted for 1000's of frontline customer service people.

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July 29, 2013 12:45 PM
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Six Key Ingredients of Great Customer Service

Six Key Ingredients of Great Customer Service | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Errol Allen outlines the essentials required to create great customer experiences which lead to maximum customer retention.
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July 29, 2013 12:18 PM
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Getting to Wow at Wells Fargo - Think customers: The 1to1 Blog

Getting to Wow at Wells Fargo - Think customers: The 1to1 Blog | Guest Service | Scoop.it

Does a big bank care about customer experience? And if so - why? Those are the fundamental questions answered for Wells Fargo

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Love to see another of my clients laying out what I was able to see from the consulting side on guest service!

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July 15, 2013 12:27 PM
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Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved

Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Sometimes cable companies' poor service is a strategic choice.
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July 5, 2013 4:10 PM
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Creating a 4-step PATH that leads customers to your business

Creating a 4-step PATH that leads customers to your business | Guest Service | Scoop.it
At the present, most customers are a bit overwhelmed with choices. Think for a minute. When we want to buy something, go on a trip, stay at a hotel, get a new dog, new barbecue—what do we do? Most ...
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July 1, 2013 9:15 AM
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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong | Guest Service | Scoop.it

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field.

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team's strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. And an ambitious 13% said that they'll settle for nothing less than having the best customer experience across every industry — in other words, these companies want to be the next Apple, Disney, or Zappos.

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June 24, 2013 4:49 PM
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Why Service Is The Final Frontier For Differentiation

Why Service Is The Final Frontier For Differentiation | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Fast Company
Why Service Is The Final Frontier For Differentiation
Fast Company
So, when I do experience great service it jumps out and hugs me. Without excellent service the customer experience is forgettable at best.
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June 17, 2013 12:24 PM
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'Some stores track customers by WiFi on smart phones'

'Some stores track customers by WiFi on smart phones'
Chicago Tribune (blog)
Nordstrom in Cherry Creek Mall and Nordstrom Rack in Boulder both have the tracking system by Euclid Analytics.
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September 2, 2013 10:06 AM
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7 Lessons About Customer Service … From the Sage Listens Tour

7 Lessons About Customer Service … From the Sage Listens Tour | Guest Service | Scoop.it
7 Lessons About Customer Service … From the Sage Listens Tour
Small Business Trends
Sage North America just wrapped up its 50-day Sage Listens Tour across the United States, meeting with small businesses.
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August 19, 2013 10:15 AM
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Customer Service Lessons from Zappos

Customer Service Lessons from Zappos | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Customer Service Lessons from Zappos
About - News & Issues
Are you a fan of Zappos? I sure am -- I love that it's super easy to order cute shoes and get them delivered lightning fast.
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August 19, 2013 10:13 AM
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Online retailers offer the 'highest standards of customer service'

Online retailers offer the 'highest standards of customer service' | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Online retailers offer the 'highest standards of customer service' Fresh Business Thinking A fifth of consumers (20 per cent) ranked online retailers as providing the highest standards of customer service against a list of 13 organisation types in...
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August 12, 2013 3:22 PM
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Getting clued-in to managing customer experiences

Getting clued-in to managing customer experiences | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Satisfaction, loyalty and invested customers are based on deeper emotional engagement and less on rational thought.
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This is an excellent perspective!

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August 7, 2013 9:27 AM
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Federal customer service bill passes House - Fierce Government

Federal customer service bill passes House - Fierce Government | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Federal customer service bill passes House
Fierce Government
The Government Customer Service Improvement Act (H.R.
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Interesting, but something tells me this could have some serious "unintended consequences" -- some of them not what's hoped for by the individuals behind the change.

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July 29, 2013 12:46 PM
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The Great Digital Divide - Why Customers Won't Come

The Great Digital Divide - Why Customers Won't Come | Guest Service | Scoop.it
A digital strategy without a customer experience program is sort of like unwrapping the bow on the proverbial box of chocolates - you never know what you are going to get.
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July 29, 2013 12:45 PM
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Ten Keys to Creating the "Apple Loyalty Effect" for Your Customers

Ten Keys to Creating the "Apple Loyalty Effect" for Your Customers | Guest Service | Scoop.it
One of the major goals of any business should be to nurture and increase customer loyalty. Here are the key ways to create customers for life.
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July 29, 2013 12:15 PM
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Standard Bank’s 4 Steps toward Becoming a Customer-Focused Organization

Standard Bank’s 4 Steps toward Becoming a Customer-Focused Organization | Guest Service | Scoop.it
The financial services industry is seen as a major offender when it comes to being customer centric. South Africa’s Standard Bank is one entity that makes customer centricity a priority that’s ingrained in its core beliefs.
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Very serious article.  I had the honor of spending a week+ working with Standard Bank in South Africa several years ago.  Their attitude then doesn't surprise me as I read this take on guest service.  Top Notch!

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July 8, 2013 7:42 AM
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Email Is Dead. Long Live Email!

Email Is Dead. Long Live Email! | Guest Service | Scoop.it
New methods of communication are taking over. But experts stress that rather than going away, email will remain a strong means of interaction.
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July 1, 2013 9:41 AM
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4 Attributes of a Frictionless Customer Experience

4 Attributes of a Frictionless Customer Experience | Guest Service | Scoop.it
The best kind of customer experience a customer can have is one in which he can meet his need or solve his problem completely effort.
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June 24, 2013 4:53 PM
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Casino Consultant Looks Around and Doesn’t See That Great Service

Casino Consultant Looks Around and Doesn’t See That Great Service | Guest Service | Scoop.it
I’m a casino consultant and I’ve heard it all.  Some casinos think they have absolutely wonderful, positively astounding guest service.  They’re convinced and will bend your ear explaining why.  Very odd.  As I look around their properties, that’s not what I see.
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June 21, 2013 6:52 AM
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3 Ways to Create a Service Mindset in Your Organization—and how one person can make a difference!

3 Ways to Create a Service Mindset in Your Organization—and how one person can make a difference! | Guest Service | Scoop.it
Customer Service—it is found in every industry, every company, every person's job, at every moment. If you don't deal directly with the external customer, you interact with and serve your internal ...
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