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Dramarama: Coach Your Customer Experience Team From Surface Acting to Deep Acting

Miller Heiman Group

Customers who reach out to service teams have specific emotional needs—and a study that we recently conducted online with 5,500 global consumers confirmed that customers expect service employees to display a specific emotion in response to their issues. ning moment that builds customer loyalty.

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Think Like a Sales Rep. Act Like a Marketer. React Like Customer Service.

Sales Hacker

The new breed of salesperson will think like a rep, act like a marketer, and react like customer service. In a personality study of 1,000 salespeople, a few traits stood out as being predictive of who would be the the most successful at the job. React Like Customer Service. Act Like a Marketer.

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How to Apologize to A Client In Sales

SalesFuel

Apologizing is an art form that is the backbone of customer service…” writes Rachel Cagle for SalesFuel. This, according to Tim Riesterer , is known as the “service recovery paradox.” SalesFuel reports on study results that show 75% of customers want apologies when something goes wrong. But only 28% get them.

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“Mastering Customer Complaints: An Effective Guide to Delight Your Customers”

Apptivo

Unforgettable Customer Service: Real-Life case studies of Effective Complaint Handling 3. Scenarios’ on How to handle customer complaints effectively 4. Proven Impacts of effectively handling customer complaints In today’s highly competitive business landscape, customer satisfaction is paramount.

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Some Additional Thoughts.

Sales and Marketing Management

One of my clients created teams that included sales reps, sales engineers, account managers, customer service people and representatives from accounting for a short burst of high activity. article called “ Google Spent 2 Years Studying 180 Teams. Here’s an example: Teams can be short lived. Read about them in the Inc.

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Every Great Conversation

Sales and Marketing Management

Training programs in sales or customer service, negotiation, coaching and leadership all contain the same foundational elements. They act as an effective foundation for any communication-based program. Studies reveal that mimicking body language helps move people to the Approach mode via a set of mirror neurons (Maddux).

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CX Competencies to Develop Right Now, Part II

Miller Heiman Group

We recently published a blog discussing four of the essential customer experience best practices that we identified in interviews of top customer service reps. Today, we continue that discussion and reveal the last four effective practices that sales and service organizations should emulate. Get the Study.