March 7, 2023
3 Behaviors That Make Or Break Customer Experience
During the last three months, I’ve been traveling a lot to meet clients, mostly driving my car. Therefore I’ve also had some time to think about how customer relationships are born, evolve, and sometimes cut up. More specifically, what aspects influence the whole relationship in a positive or negative way, just like in any other…
February 7, 2023
Two Customer Feedback Types You Need To Balance
‘They’ve been so helpful that I’ll definitely come back again’ or ‘the staff was really unhelpful: never again!’ Whether they rant or rave after having had an experience with your business, customer feedback is mostly service-related. However, if you watch them just through that lens, you’ll get a partial view of the picture. Thus you…
January 3, 2023
How Will You Improve Customer Experience?
It is becoming ever more important that you constantly improve customer experience to stay competitive. After such a bold statement, I invite you to read the rest of this article. If you disagree, stop reading now because I won’t do anything to convince you. The fact is that I’ve been listening to many companies saying…
December 6, 2022
It’s Time to Re-Think Digital Customer Service
The recent turmoils at Twitter and consequent layoffs affecting them, as well as other social platforms, have raised major concerns. This has become a highly complex scenario, and investors and stakeholders alike are worried about the future of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. In this article though, I’m going to focus on another aspect…
November 8, 2022
Are You Keeping Your Customer Relationships Alive?
After some time together, your customer decides to take a different path. They decide to stop the cooperation with you for an unidentified length of time. Quite a shock, uh? If you have already experienced this, you know that your first reaction is emotional, often with mixed feelings. However, as counterintuitive as it seems, that’s…
October 11, 2022
When Digital Channels Make Your Customers Happy
‘This digital channel doesn’t work for us!’ So said a manager to me once. I remember that he was so reluctant to integrate live chat as a new digital customer service channel that he literally boycotted it. In fact, he ran a ‘pivotal test’ of…just 7 days to end up with the above conclusion. Three…
September 6, 2022
What Are You Doing To Make Your Customers’ Lives Easier?
Even though today we’re equipped with incredible technology, our lives are not easier. In fact, on one hand, we can instantly get in touch with anybody, but at the same time getting solutions is not faster than it used to be! As customers, we all know it very well when we ask for support but…
August 2, 2022
Why Your Customer Support Needs To Be More Proactive
Like it or not, we live in a world where speed matters. As customer support conversations flow more and more over digital channels, it’s no wonder that saving or wasting time makes a huge difference. That’s why smart organizations have realized that being proactive is key to delivering excellent customer experiences consistently. So how can…
July 5, 2022
Bad News? How Do You Inform Your Customer?
Nobody wants to disappoint others. Nevertheless, there may be some situations where you know you do it because something unexpected happened. That’s the moment of truth since how you inform your customer can make or break the experience. Here’s a vivid example to inspire you.
June 7, 2022
When Your Customer Service Staff Want To Leave [Video]
You have been leading a support team for some years you may expect sooner or later to have a turnover. In fact, some customer service staff may want to leave the company to pursue new career opportunities – and that’s normal. However if the churn rate grows and involves your best collaborators, it’s a sign…
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