customer relationships - Brad Cleveland

Tell your customer’s story

Feb 22, 2022 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

In the earlier years of my career, I put a lot of emphasis on logic and data. I’ve since discovered that the best customer experience leaders wrap data in a compelling narrative. They bring it to life and stir others to action. Learn about several tools you can...

The biggest barrier to improving customer experience

Feb 3, 2022 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership

Whether you lead a team, department, division, or organization, customer experience leadership has never been more important. The challenges of finding and keeping the right employees and the uncertainties created by an evolving pandemic that has gone on far longer...

Prioritizing service improvements

Jan 26, 2022 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

As a leader, you face many choices when deciding where and how to improve service. And the possibilities multiply when analyzing customer data from sources that range from social posts to surveys to operational metrics. So, which issues do you tackle first? There are...

Being available for customers

Jan 20, 2022 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Workforce Management

One of the biggest challenges in many organizations is that the work arrives randomly from moment to moment. That’s true in a restaurant, a retail store, a contact center, a hospital’s emergency department, and many other environments. Those delivering services don’t...

Calculating referred customer value

Jan 11, 2022 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

Customers who are referred to a business tend to spend more than customers who come in from marketing. As one marketing professional put it to me, “Referred customers come in hot. They trust their peers and they spend more out of the gate than do other new...