September 11, 2017
Why No News Is Not Good News In Customer Service
When I started working about 20 years ago, a mantra was ‘we must avoid customer complaints.’ That was the first time I heard about customer retention. Today, working as a customer service consultant and trainer, I still see many companies trying to prevent complaints. But in the meantime, technology has dramatically changed customers’ behavior. In this…
August 7, 2017
How To Effectively Deal With Customer Rage
A couple of weeks ago I was on a train heading to Florence, Italy. Unfortunately we remained stuck inside a tunnel for over 2 hours. All of the passengers were stranded, as the train crew literally disappeared. Desaparecidos (that’s how we say it in Italy!). We could barely understand the ‘train voice’, which gave us…
July 10, 2017
Nobody Hears The Customer Screaming
I recently attended two major customer service events here in Italy. The first was ‘Chat Bots For Enterprise‘ which took place in Florence and it was mainly attended by software providers. The second one, ‘Customer day‘, was held in my home city, Milan. Many customer service directors of major brands gathered to tell about how they…
June 7, 2017
How to Be Successful in Social Selling
Are your revenue goals falling behind? Is your business not experiencing a high return from your social media efforts? In the past, sales were generated from cold-calling, advertising and marketing online with services like Google Adwords. Today, that has all changed with the rise of mobile marketing and social networks. The result has been the…
June 5, 2017
The Answer Is Customers: What Are The Right Questions?
Here’s the good news: commitment, perseverance and business acumen are essential to get new customers. Here’s the bad news: once you won them you need to use the same ingredients plus adding extra effort if you want to retain them! As business is based on the relationship between people, it is paramount to nurture them…
May 24, 2017
9 Reasons to Adopt a Knowledge Base for Your Website
Having a knowledge base for your website is becoming more and more popular, as it can provide users with many benefits. No matter what kind of a website you have and what products or services you offer, creating a knowledge base and integrating it with your website is a great step to take. It can…
May 9, 2017
Viewing Customer Experience With Consumers Eyes
It’s time for us all to switch hats and look at our entire businesses from the point of view of a customer. Ideally, all companies would do this. But while many have become too large, or perhaps just turned into dinosaurs, and couldn’t change quickly if their existence depended on it, you and I don’t…
May 8, 2017
4 Sentences That Make Your Customers Mad
Sometimes innocent words ignite fires – especially if you work in a customer service environment. I guess you’ve heard of the mantra ‘just follow the rules’, right? So I ask you: what happens when the rules don’t work? After many years within companies, and now today as a customer service consultant, I can tell you…
April 14, 2017
Curatti On Air: Overcoming Social Customer Service Hurdles
Even though most people use social media every day, many brands are still reluctant to use it as customer support channels. That’s due to different reasons but – as a consultant – I’ve experienced three Social Customer Service hurdles, and I’ve turned them into questions for you in this post. At the end of it…
March 6, 2017
Use Social Customer Service To Nurture Your Business
For many years, customer service has been underrated. Most brands have considered it ‘a post-sales activity’ or worse ‘just a necessary cost’. This ignores the inner value of customer service for overall business. Well, if you still have this kind of approach in 2017, it is no wonder that you struggle to retain your customers! In this…
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