Bill Price is a longtime friend and industry colleague in the customer service space. Bill...
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Will the Fundamentals Change?
The technologies powering today’s always-on world, along with fast-evolving customer expectations, are dramatically changing the nature of how products and services are provided and supported....
Read More >>>Stories from the Field: Improving the Service Process
Focusing on improvements at the process level is so powerful. I once did some work for a company that provides software packages for businesses, and I spent some time...
Read More >>>Celebrate – often!
Would you go to a game and wait until your team won to cheer? Building an organization (or division, function, or team) that consistently delivers...
Read More >>>10 Components of a Customer Access Strategy
Whether you’re a one person building contractor, a technology start-up, a government agency, or a global airline, you need a customer access strategy that defines how your organization will interact...
Read More >>>Customer Advocacy: The Secret Sauce
There’s a scene in the movie Jobs, the biographical drama of Steve Jobs’ life, where he is shown fiddling with a portable CD player. It’s...
Read More >>>5 Secrets to Quality Service
I’ve seen organizations achieve every level of success. Some top their industry in customer loyalty, and they enjoy the strong business results that come with it. Others struggle as...
Read More >>>Who are your innovators?
I once had a chance to meet and talk with the late W. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming was one of the world’s preeminent quality gurus,...
Read More >>>Great customer experiences happen by design
Customer-centric organizations spend proportionally more time designing processes and proportionally less time getting better at appeasing unhappy customers. They devote their attention to eliminating what...
Read More >>>Essential Metrics for the Service Operation
There are many variables in customer service and different perspectives of what’s important. What should you focus on? We’ve found there are seven key aspects of service that should always...
Read More >>>Leveraging customer interactions to provide strategic value
Any part of the organization that interacts directly with customers has the potential to create...
Read More >>>The Power of Brand Advocates
Customers are advocates when they positively promote your products and brand. Brand advocates, as they’re often called, bring much value to the organization. The benefits of customer advocates...
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