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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
Customer Feedback: Analyzing Input
In the strategic approach to managing customer feedback, analyzing input is where disparate data begins to come to life and tell stories. It's a bit like putting a snorkel mask on and jumping off a boat to explore the coral reef. What you discover is nothing short of...
Idea Starter: AI for Customer Service
When jumping into AI for customer service, many organizations inventory what they’re doing now and look for opportunities to automate. This “fixed pie” thinking can be limiting out of the gate. Those with the best service start first and foremost with customer needs...
New Course: The AI-Driven Customer Service Representative
Recently, my newest LinkedIn Learning course, The AI-Driven Customer Service Representative, was launched. This course is built for those of you on the front lines, interacting with customers, solving problems, and keeping things moving. In this course, we explore...
Calculating Customer Attrition Due to Poor Service
Poor customer service negatively impacts how your customers behave, in some cases causing customer attrition. A study from Accenture found that of those reporting the bad experience, 97% changed their future buying decisions, 58% stopped buying, 52% switched, and 52%...
Customer Advocacy: Internal or External…or Both?
In recent years, customer advocacy has been a hot topic in marketing and customer service circles. But if you do a search on the term, you’ll find two very different definitions. One is an internal perspective: focusing the organization on what’s best for customers,...
The Aviator’s Guide to CX: Piloting Customer Experience
I recently had the opportunity to join Nathan Bennett on CX-WISE for a conversation that blended two of my greatest passions: customer experience and aviation. As someone who’s spent decades working with organizations across industries—and who’s had the joy of flying...
The Power of One in a Contact Center
The power of one is among the most important principles for any contact center agent to understand. Every individual makes a significant impact on customer wait times and agent occupancy – even in large centers. Share this video from my LinkedIn Learning course...
Eliminate 5 Damaging Customer Service Frustrations
When my iPhone battery life began to diminish, I searched for “Apple support phone number.” While Apple doesn’t hide their phone number, I scrolled down the page to see what other options were available. It was a Monday morning, and I knew they would be busy. I...
Stories from the Field: Give Your Forecast More Attention
I recall a consulting project with a company that was struggling to provide consistent service to their customers. At times, customers had to endure painfully long waits but other times their employees were sitting idle waiting for something to happen. It became...
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