Tag: customer service

customer service, quality, satisfaction

Never Ending Interviews: The Three Different Worlds of Customer Service Perceptions — The Twain Shall Never Meet

View from the “top” explains why customer service tends to be so horrible even in 2024. Q: When I read online accounts of both poor and good customer service, I’m amazed at the diversity of views. It’s almost like people come…

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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…

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Never Ending Interviews: Expecting Minimum Wage Customer Service Staff To Act As If They Are Slaves

Q: I noticed that you had a brief conversation with @altmilan who suggested that people on both sides of the customer equation (employees/companies AND customers) sometimes confuse service with servitude. Can you expand on this a bit? A: Actually, that was Milan’s…

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A Vision of Customer Service For THIS Millennium

…The traditional approach to customer service sure as hell isn’t resulting in better service, so something different needs to happen November 11 is a day to remember and honor those who fought for our freedoms and quality of life, and…

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Eleven Pillars Of Radical Customer Service

So long as you do what everyone is doing in customer service, you have no chance at using customer service as a competitive advantage. The basic principle behind radical customer service is simple, and applies to many other areas in…

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How Good Does Voice Recognition/Artificial Intelligence Have To Be To Be Useful For Customer…

Q: Since Watson’s successful debut on Jeopardy, there’s been a suggestion that computers can do natural language processing to improve customer service. What do you think? Robert: I think it’s fascinating, and promising to imagine a computer can handle and process customer…