Customer Relationships - Brad Cleveland

Angry Customers? “…meet them where they are”

Jun 11, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Quality Management

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...

The Most Important Development in Customer Service

Jun 9, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Videos

Interview on Building a Customer Service Ecosystem

Mar 11, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Videos

“You have to serve…like nobody else does.”

Feb 17, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership

Here’s a quotation worth discussing with your team. “Manufacturers are struggling all over the place to call themselves a manufacturer, when in reality there’s a firm in Korea, China, India copying their product with incredible detail. Today, what you have...

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World

Jan 6, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Multi-channel Support, Social Media, The Edge of Service

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World If you were to walk into an Amazon.com customer contact center, you’d see desks turned sideways so that Fire tablet support agents have a neutral background for video calls (one-way,...

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Dec 16, 2014 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Mobile, Multi-channel Support, Social Media

Earlier this week, I joined Laura Sikorski on the WebTV show, Sikorski’s Think Abouts. In this 12-minute interview, we discuss the trends shaping service and how to meet today’s fast-evolving customer expectations.