[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). Great customer service has the potential to build customer engagement and loyalty by providing your business with a […]
[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). Certainly, opportunities come up in nearly every industry for customer service employees to make a difference for someone
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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). Planning for things to go wrong is an essential part of building a sustainably great customer experience. In
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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). Instead of pointing out what to do to improve your customer service (my usual mode of operations as
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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). Last week, I suggested quick wins that could improve your customer service and customer experience. Today, I’m going
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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). The standard level of customer service at most modern companies is reactive. Reactive service isn’t the worst thing
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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). In honor of National Small Business Week ( #SmallBusinessWeek ), here are five highly effective, low- or no-cost
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I know we’ve never met. But I have a pretty good idea of where you’re dropping the ball in your customer service delivery.I’ve seen companies like yours (probably) in my work as a customer experience consultant, keynote speaker, and customer service author. And, odds are, you’re dropping the customer service ball on your handoffs. It’s
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My View From The Podium As a professional keynote speaker, I know that the obvious part of my job is, well, obvious: I get up on a stage, freshly showered and dressed–me, not the stage–and kick off an event by speaking. For a brief amount of time, usually about an hour. What happens onstage during
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Are you planning on hiring a keynote speaker for a corporate event, industrywide conference, or executive summit? I’ve scored you some helpful advice for you here, because I know that hiring someone to speak can be disorienting. It isn’t something most buyers do every day, as the process is for those of us who speak
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