When developing an effective customer service strategy, you will need to include how to build the right skills, knowledge, and leaders. I’ve found in many...
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Drive Innovation with Convenience Design
One of the themes driving innovation in customer experience is effort reduction—making things as simple and easy for customers as possible. One element of reducing...
Read More >>>The importance of effective service strategy
Customer service should work so well that it enables you to focus on what really matters: delivering on your organization’s mission and promises, and engaging...
Read More >>>The Pros and Cons of Virtual Queues
Many contact centers are grappling with labor shortages, surging workloads, or a brutal combination of both. The resource mismatches have resulted in long wait times...
Read More >>>Customer Service Excellence
Recently, I gave a presentation at the Tugboat Institute Gathering of Teams. The talk focused on common missed opportunities in customer service as well as...
Read More >>>5 Universal Customer Frustrations
Apple, the trillion-dollar tech giant, is also a giant in customer service. When my iPhone battery life began to diminish, I found myself on Apple’s...
Read More >>>10 Components of a Customer Access Strategy
It could be that you have just a few people in a small department or company, handling interactions with customers. On the other hand, you...
Read More >>>Harness innovation to deepen customer relationships
When developing a customer service strategy, the final step is to innovate and align. Where are the opportunities to get even better? How do you...
Read More >>>Eliminate the most damaging customer service frustrations
The principles that guide effortless customer experiences seem basic: Don’t make me wait Make it easy to access service Provide me with a knowledgeable and...
Read More >>>Principle #2: Quality and Access to Service Work Together
In customer experience, when service is required, quality of service and access to it are inextricably associated with, and complementary to, each other. Accessibility is...
Read More >>>Build Customer Expectations into Plans and Direction
Anticipating customer expectations is essential to developing effective customer service. In fact, customer expectations ultimately define what good service means. Truly understanding your customers can...
Read More >>>Keep Your Strategy Current
When a strategy goes out of date, decisions become fragmented and results begin to suffer. Effective leaders know how to develop strategies that don’t go...
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