Have you ever browsed a catalog or a website and had a basic, maybe frivolous question about an item? Did you call customer service for assistance or did you try to come up with the answer on your own? Chances are, you did the latter, and your customers may be as well. But being a Keep Reading...
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” - Henry Ford In our world of customer service, we are understandably focused on keeping our customers happy. We work tirelessly to create good policies, hire and train good employees, and treat our customers well. It's easy to perceive complaints from loyal Keep Reading...
As our businesses grow, our attention gets pulled to new areas. Company growth, product offerings, partnerships, behind the scenes housekeeping... it all eats into the time we originally spent on the front lines, interacting with our customers, solving their problems, and answering their questions. I recently realized how very long it had been since I Keep Reading...
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Image credit: RM Media Ltd. A seamless customer service experience is not simply born overnight. It is something that is continually worked on, forever moving us closer to excellence. We Keep Reading...
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] For Ashley, a single stamp turned her day around. A lot of stories about outstanding customer service involve companies going well beyond their ordinary duties to make their customers happy, Keep Reading...
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill Maria crisscrosses the country on a regular basis for her work. It's an existence that comes with all of the normal trials and tribulations of travel, things that an experienced traveler lets roll off her back. But on a recent trip, Maria Keep Reading...
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." --Benjamin Franklin In our line of work, we often began our jobs with a specific course of training. Over time, we've likely done occasional case study challenges to refresh how we want to be approaching cases. These are both valuable Keep Reading...
The environment that we are currently doing business in is unprecedented: we deal with customers far beyond our communities, our branding and relationships often take place online, our first direct interaction with a customer might very well come when that customer has a problem, and the standards to which we are being held are constantly Keep Reading...
We all know that being on the front lines of customer service can be a challenge. Representatives are faced with expectations of extensive product knowledge, policy and procedure adherence, dealing with displeased customers, and delivering every answer and every solution with the utmost friendliness. We've previously discussed various ways to prevent service representative burnout, but Keep Reading...
A brand is the way a business is personified in the minds of consumers. - Melissa Bolton When your team first set out to develop your company's brand, you may have invested a lot of time in what a customer actually sees: website design, logos, taglines, colors... When you ask a customer about what he Keep Reading...
