The Three Worst Words in Customer Service

By changing a few words, you can turn a bad customer experience into a great one.

Companies need to be aware and observant of situations where employees exceed customer expectations and make it part of their standard practice.

The best companies understand that customers want time-saving options.

Full Service Recovery: How to Handle the Screw Up

When things do go wrong it’s how you recover and delight the customer that truly sets you apart from other companies. Here are five steps to save the customer relationship.

Put yourself in your customer’s shoes on a regular basis and learn about you and your company from their perspective.

Errol Allen looks at three ways to ensure a seamless customer experience.

10 Simple Steps to Stellar Customer Service

The good news is, it’s not hard to give great customer service. You simply have to be aware and make it a priority. Following are 10 tips to help you offer stellar customer service.

By using surveys with both quantitative and qualitative responses you will get a complete picture as to the true state of the customer experience.

Robert Killory examines the pitfalls of customer empowerment.

Here are 7 ways to keep your customers happy and turn them into your best advocates.

Six Steps to Understanding the Digital Customer

Richard McCrossan looks at how customer service managers can take six steps to truly understanding digital customers.

Here are 5 ways to significantly impact the customer experience on Black Friday.

It takes customer service and more for a small company to compete in today’s world of big box stores, and the same business strategies that will set a small company apart are valuable tools for a company of any size.

If you sincerely strive to “serve and protect” your customers, you will earn their trust and confidence. And over time, that translates into customer loyalty.

In the increasingly digitized consumer and business world, personal communications count for a lot.

3 Steps to Effective Customer Service Training

In this brief guide to customer service training, Ellen has broken the process down into three simple steps. Let’s jump right in.

The basic premise to creating a customer centric culture is to start on the inside, with the employees. In this article we’ll get started with a list of the basics.

Marketing and Customer Service: A Match Made in Heaven?

In the future, we could see an integration of Customer Service and Marketing operating under a single budget.

Some statistics on “complaint wait” – the shocking amount of time spent dealing with customer service failures.