Customers are good at troubleshooting the small stuff and research shows when they come to customer service staff they expect complex problem solving, options or answers - not apologies. My research ...

For decades, service has been relegated to the end of the customer lifecycle. It was reactive, transitional, transactional, and traditional. A “fix something that’s gone wrong” function, stuck at the ...

Loretta Gromo wanted to do something special to celebrate her wedding anniversary, so she decided to book a Royal Caribbean cruise to mark 25 years of marriage to her husband, Bob. After 34 years as ...

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Only 9% of customers report resolving their issues completely via self-service, according to Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com). Many companies create more channels for customer service, but this creates ...

A couple of months back, the DSL at my house fizzled over a weekend, with service sporadic to none. On a Sunday, I called Verizon tech support, and the customer service technician walked me through ...

The days of routine query handling in the call center are coming to an end. The next step is to operate the call center as a problem solving unit using network judgment techniques. Some years ago when ...