Developing Customer Service Skills For 30+ Years
The Customer is Always Right? In this three minute video a young man discusses his observations about difficult and irrational customers and how they are often rewarded for their very hostile and disturbing behaviors. See if you think that the customers’ behaviors justified how they were treated by…
How to Provide Good Customer Service This five minute video clip is aimed at teenagers working in the fast-food industry, but is sure to find an audience with anyone dealing with angry customers within the service industry. Four essential tips for defusing hostile customers are demonstrated, then…
Microsoft CRM – What can it do for you? A 3 minute clip on the benefits that Microsoft can bring to a company. Obviously a promotional video, but we’ve included it here to provide a very brief overview for those new to CRM, and who…
It’s harder than you might think to find really good, detailed case studies of excellence in customer service that are informative and detailed enough while also being general enough to learn from. We’re trying to pull together case studies or mini case studies we think…
Research On Customer Service – Studies Of Consumer Behavior If you want to make effective decisions about the levels of customer service your customers require to help your company be successful, you have two choices: You can read second, third, fourth, and fifth hand interpretations…
Factors That Confuse Businesses’ Understanding Of Customer Service And What Customers Want previous page on the difficulties of understand customers Another Problem: Effects Of Customer Service Probably Long Term, Not Short Term Another reason why it’s difficult to determine both what customers “want”, and how…
What About Other Social Media Platforms? How Are THEY USED, and What Are The implications For Customer Service? …continued from Who Stole Social From Social Media There are all kinds of other social media platforms out ranging from those that are picture oriented (Pinterest), video…
Why The Customer Service Research Gets It Wrong: …continued from here The Over-Generalization Problem Before we look at the evidence that supports or disconfirms the survey research on this subject, we have to address a central problem. If you look at the quotes at the…
How Our Dumbed Down “Understanding” Of Customers Destroys Good Service By Robert Bacal You’d think it would be easy to determine what customers want. Just ask them. Or, watch them behave. There aren’t any other options. If businesses could get actionable and accurate information this…
Radical Customer Service – Understanding Customers Important Conclusions About What You “Think” You Know About What Customers Want, and The Power of Customer Service continued from You can’t “understand customers”. You can only understand customers within the context they operate ; their locations, cultural backgrounds,…
