Customer Service

Memorable WOW Experience Held Together by Coffee Stir Sticks

It’s an occupational hazard of keynoting, consulting, and writing about customer service that my friends and family feel compelled to share all of their customer service nightmare stories. I’m really not complaining. I merely mention this as a set-up to a story shared with me by my son. Before I get too far into my…

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Renewed Year Customer Experience Focus

A new year is here and I need to make a confession. I admit it. I’ve been critical of leaders who make declarations like “THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE CUSTOMER.” My problem with those types of statements is that I believe every year should be the year of the customer. Why else are we in business? In support of my position,…

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Keys to Customer Experience Excellence | Driven to Delight

Guilty! I admit it I’ve been known to take a complex topic like “customer experience excellence” and make it even more complex. So let’s take a simplified, hopefully not a simplistic, run at how to treat customers in a way that separates you from the competition.  To keep me on track, I’ll offer a framework courtesy of leaders at Mercedes-Benz USA.…

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Keys to Customer Experience Excellence | Driven to Delight

Guilty! I admit it I’ve been known to take a complex topic like “customer experience excellence” and make it even more complex. So let’s take a simplified, hopefully not a simplistic, run at how to treat customers in a way that separates you from the competition.  To keep me on track, I’ll offer a framework courtesy of leaders at Mercedes-Benz USA.…

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How to Become a Leader in Customer Experience | Driven to Delight

There are leaders, followers, and…well people who just get in the way! Which are you? In business today, it takes leadership to build a business that consistently engages customers. If customers aren’t emotionally connected to your brand, through the experiences you provide, you will be vulnerable to offers and solicitations from your competitors. Such was…

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How to Become a Leader in Customer Experience | Driven to Delight

There are leaders, followers, and…well people who just get in the way! Which are you? In business today, it takes leadership to build a business that consistently engages customers. If customers aren’t emotionally connected to your brand, through the experiences you provide, you will be vulnerable to offers and solicitations from your competitors. Such was…

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Common Knowledge is Not So Common

I’d just crossed through a sentence I’d written in a training series for the retail team at Godiva. To me, the sentence stated the obvious when it came to the importance of “product knowledge.” My internal dialogue went something like, “Who doesn’t know that, Joseph? It’s time to take a break and come back at…

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