customer service
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Poor Service Isn’t Always An Accident. It’s Often By Design
In markets without much competition, organisations can deliver bad service not because of poor design and management, but simply because they can. Benjamin P. Taylor shared a great thread on Twitter this week outlining the experience of attempting to get… Continue reading
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Why You Shouldn’t Ask Customers What They Want
The customer is always right. If you involve customers – you’ll make better decisions. The only problem with statements like these is that they don’t seem to account for all those occasions when the customer wasn’t right. They don’t explain… Continue reading
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5 Lessons in Simple Customer Experience (Indonesian Style)
A new report puts Amazon, McDonald’s and First Direct as the leaders in the top ten of the UK’s ‘simplest’ brands. The companies that are the easiest to deal with. Whatever you think of them most of us could learn… Continue reading
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HEY , Where are you? – Why your company needs to Google itself
I recently explained to a group of managers why they should google themselves. After the initial “what, me? I’m not famous!” responses, they see their search results , look intrigued, and then get it – the dangers of a badly… Continue reading
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Break Your Own Rules
I had a couple of great little customer service experiences recently that I’d like to share. On both occasions the employee admitted breaking the rules. They had done something that I , the customer , thought was great service. But… Continue reading
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