Just recently I was asked to come into a small executive meeting with just twelve people to talk about customer service. With this intimate group, I wanted to be a little more interactive; a dialogue with the audience, versus a monologue or speech. At one point I had the executives split into two groups of […]
One of the worst friction points in a customer service experience is when a customer is put on hold. This is the exact point I wanted to convey to an audience at a recent meeting at which I was asked to speak. My client asked me to include a piece on hold times and transfers. […]
It’s unquestionable that many large businesses are giving superb customer service and that’s why I’m so dumbfounded when I encounter the opposite. Here are two examples: As I prepared to leave a hotel recently I called for a bellman and requested a taxi. I waited for 15 minutes. Cue the crickets. I eventually wrestled my […]
When I’m in New York there’s a restaurant that’s almost like my kitchen, I eat there so often. Once I casually mentioned how much I enjoy the Italian soup, pasta e fagioli. The next time I came in to eat, the owner stopped by my table to tell me they had made the soup for […]
Four in 10 senior executives in larger companies don’t know the lifetime value of their customers. That’s according to MarketingCharts who quoted a Forbes and Sitecore study that surveyed 312 senior executives in North American companies. Not only did 40 percent of the leadership surveyed not know the financial value of their customers, over half of them […]