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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
Angry Customers? “…meet them where they are”
Here's a great quote to discuss at your next team meeting: "It's easy to accept the easy customer. But as Morantz [Craig Morantz] aptly points out, you will always deal with angry, bitter, frightened and emotional customers. Acceptance is not judging them, it's...
The Most Important Development in Customer Service
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 12: The Keys to Social Customer Service
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 12: The Keys to Social Customer Service Being part of "the conversation"—listening to customers and interacting with them where they are—was until recently a powerful differentiator. But it's now becoming a competitive necessity....
The Problem with Daily Averages (and the Solution)
Can You Afford to Ignore Social Media?
Proactively engaging your customers yields many benefits. For example, research conducted by CFI Group finds that customers who post their contact center experiences on social media sites and then receive follow up from the company rate their overall customer...
Should We Have Objectives for Abandonment?
Smartphone Growth
As of December 2014, nearly 75% of all U.S. mobile subscribers aged 13 and older owned a smartphone. The highest adoption rates belong to mobile subscribers aged 25-34 (88.9%), and 18-24 (88.6%). In January 2013, the smartphone adoption rates for these groups were...
What Do Customers Want You to Know?
It is axiomatic that in order to best serve your customers, you have to “know” them. In other words, you need to understand your customers’ expectations and needs as comprehensively as possible in order to give them the products and services that they want. But how...