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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.
Great Service Makes Us Feel Better
Trendwatching.com just released the report, The Future of Customer Service, which begins with the following excerpt from an American Express 2013 study: “When 1,620 consumers were tested under laboratory conditions, 63% said they felt their heart rate increase when...
Encouraging Customers to Use Self-Service Channels
Know What's Important to Customers
A recent study by Execs in the Know and Digital Roots asked customers, Which characteristic of an interaction with a brand’s customer service department is most important to you? The answers: Effective Issue Resolution--40.3% Immediacy/Fast Response--20.9% Ease...
Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 10: Beware Others' Benchmarks
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 10: Beware Others' Benchmarks Let me begin with a quick preface. The title is "beware others' benchmarks," not ignore them, or be uniformed of them. Benchmarks are necessary. But to the definition of beware......
Rules of the Road for Recruiting and Hiring
When to Begin Forecasting and Planning Chat
Social Media Presence vs. Social Media Customer Care
According to ICMI’s recent research report The Normalization of Social Customer Care, 73% of organizations report having a social media presence, but only 39% formally support it as a customer care channel. That leaves 34% of organizations with a presence, but without...
The Demand for Our Time Leads to Disengagement
A widely-circulated article with the provocative title, “Why You Hate Work,” summarized the results of a recent study from The Energy Project. In it, authors Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath provide this snapshot: "Just 30 percent of employees in America feel...
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