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…
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…
How to Respond to Happy and Unhappy Customers on Social Media
Social media has transformed both customer service and marketing. Customers now use platforms like Twitter and Facebook both to complain about companies and to compliment them. Some businesses see social platforms as just a potential problem — a source of public customer complaints against them. The companies that get ahead are those that instead see…
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…
