Developing Customer Service Skills For 30+ Years
Moving Companies & Airlines – Two Kinds of Businesses Struggling With Customer Service Issues. Why? Stephanie Thum is mad. So, mad in fact, that she posted some 10-20 tweets tagged #custserv about her moving company letting her down and delivering terrible customer service. Stephanie is…
Customer Service Myths Why Customer Service Won’t Differentiate Brands In The Market Place. And It’ll Get Less Important In The USA Many people, including a good number of business “experts” have suggested that the quality of a company’s customer service will make it “stand out”…
Customer First Customer Service By F McDuffee Summary (Ed.: Customer service is a result of a coordinated effort from ALL staff that are aimed at a single goal: providing the customer with what he needs when he needs it and at a price he wants. Learn how even…
Common wisdom about business value of customer service often way over-stated. Is Much of What You Believe About Customer Service Wrong? – Could Be. By Robert Bacal As is probably the case with you, I’m someone who makes a living by being interested in customer service,…
Preaching “Love Thy Customer” A Bad Thing? It’s Time To Stop The “Love The Customer” Nonsense and Get Serious About Customer Service It’s time to cut the crap about customer service “love”, and start to deliver basic, efficient, fast service to customers. It’s the ONLY…
Fundamental Reasons Why Customer Service Is So Bad Have Not Changed Customer Service Myth Breaking: Customer Service Quality Will NOT Improve Over the Next Few Years As is the case every year, people stick their oars in and make predictions for the next year,…
Customer Service Research Often Misleading, Badly Designed, Or Poorly Interpreted Holding Customer Research Firms Accountable For Misleading Research It’s been a bad week in a bad year for customer research and the companies that produce information about customer and consumer behavior. While there’s a torrent…
Removing features and restricting customer choice rarely the path for better customer experience Removing Features and Options For Customers? The Case Of Marriott’s Missing Desks Many travellers to one of Marriott Hotels brands, particularly business travellers, found something missing. Desks on which to work. According to…
Why Companies Don’t and Won’t Improve Customer Service There’s a great cacophony of nonsense about a lot of things related to customer service particular by self-proclaimed experts with large followings on Twitter. While these folks are good at self-promotion one has to wonder what qualifies…
Complex Systems The Source of Majority of Customer Service Failures – Part I by Robert Bacal Why IS customer service so poor. Survey data, for what that’s worth, shows customers feel that it’s getting worse. Who should we blame? Here’s the customer service team for…
