Getting Panned On Twitter? Not To Worry

Effects of Negative Tweets On Business WAY Over-Estimated Why Negative Tweets About Your Brand Aren’t As Important As You Might Think Q: These days, aren’t businesses justifiable in their concerns that criticism on Twitter might damage their businesses? Robert: I think brands should pay attention…

The More You Use Facebook, The Better It Is For Your Competition

Using Facebook For Customer Service – Something You Didn’t Know The Facebook Customer Service Paradox Q: You’ve mentioned something about the Facebook paradox as it pertains to using Facebook as a customer service vehicle. What does that mean, Robert? Robert: It’s really simple. When you…

Customer Service Vs. Servitude, and I’ll Have Some Brats With That

If we treat employees like slaves, we get slave-like behavior. Customer Service Vs. Servitude, and I’ll Have Some Brats With That Q: I noticed that you had a brief conversation with an online colleague of yours, (@altmilan) who suggested that people on both sides of…

How Good Does Customer Service Have To Be? The Answer Will Surprise! Never ending customer service interviews

When it comes to customer service, companies only need to be “good enough” to not overly piss off customers. How Good Does Customer Service Have To Be? The Answer Will Surprise! It’s the secret large companies know and customer service advocates don’t. How good does…

Nonsense Numbers: $75 Billion Lost Due To Poor Customer Service….But Where Does It Go?

In an article entitled Businesses Lose $75 Billion Due To Poor Customer Service, appearing in Forbes and dated May 17, 2018, customer service “expert” Shep Hyken explains: NewVoiceMedia’s 2018 “Serial Switchers” report reveals that poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. That’s…

More Resources: The Power of Customer Communities And Forums Plus Making Them Work

Online customer forums and communities are exceedingly powerful tools for building customer loyalty and increasing the long term return on investment (or lifetime value) of each customer. They are also often misused and neglected because it takes a commitment of time to keep them under…

Building A Customer Community For Small Business

Customer Communities Can Be Great For Supporting Customer, Or Really, Really Anger Provoking Over the last decade more and more companies have launched online communities, because of the cost savings, particularly if you can get customers to help each other and answer each other’s questions….

Video: Learning About Customer Service From “Taxi Terry”

Scott McKain — Customer Service Lessons from “Taxi Terry” Entertaining six minute video taken from a longer public presentation on customer service. Scott McKain uses a taxi driver’s behavior to explain excellent customer service. The original description of the video is below: Business leader and…