What is recognition? It’s being seen, literally and figuratively, being acknowledged, being welcomed, and being appreciated. Giving your customers recognition is essential for nearly every type retail establishment if you want to provide a great retail customer experience and customer service, as it is in B2B, hospitality and other service environments. When a customer is arriving […]
As a patient experience consultant, here are the five most essential points I bring to my consulting clients, whether they’re hospitals, outpatient facilities, or other healthcare environments and practices. Improving patient satisfaction, customer service and the customer experience, and, of course, HCAHPS scores: Here are eight key points I find myself emphasizing frequently (as a
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Internal customer service isn’t exactly the same as external customer service, but it’s no less essential. As a customer service consultant, I spend my time on both, and have devised the list below of the different subtleties of execution involved in internal customer service: internal customer service best practices/principles for transforming your company culture into
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). Customer service transformation isn’t easy, but it’s one of the most effective ways to improve business performance. If
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). You’d hardly know it, with the reflexive hand-wringing that many businesses engage in today, but customers want to
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). For a business to succeed, it needs to maximize the payoff from its customer experience. This payoff comes
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). If you want a leg up in providing superior customer service and a chance to bolster employee engagement
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). On the subject of customer service, some of the received wisdom out there is flat-out wrong. The stakes
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). If you invest the time now to establish the essential habits of customer service excellence at your company,
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[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). What is internal customer service–a good, workable definition? And how can great internal customer service be accomplished–what are