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AUGUST 6, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Crazy Drive-through Experience Douglas August 07, 2009 Customer Service Experience , Specific Companies 1 Comment I went to the drive-through at McDonald’s not that long ago and had what had to be one of the most absurd customer service experiences I’ve ever had.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Gratitude – A True Measure of Your Service Warmth Chip and John September 10, 2009 Customer Service Experience , Etiquette , Little Things, Big Differences , Specific Companies No Comments “Thank you” are the two most important words in the English language.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Douglas February 18, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service Experience 1 Comment I am a big advocate of making things simple and I’m a strong believer in the idea that simplicity leads to consistency. Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Call Your Competitors Douglas June 04, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service , Exercises/Resources 1 Comment Here is something you can do to make your company more competitive in about 10 minutes. Call your competitors and test their service.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

A recent Nielsen survey states that the primary online communication of today is Twitter; its unique visitors have increased 1,382 percent since 2009. For the last 30 years, traditional customer service recruiting, training, Maximizing Social Media: Part 1 of 2 When we were kids we use to construct a “phone. Networking.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Douglas June 22, 2009 Customer Service , Little Things, Big Differences 1 Comment In light of my recent post about my interesting experience at Blockbuster , I started thinking about situations in which employees of various companies might have an opportunity to either up or downsell you based on their own opinions and tastes. .&#

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives The Angriest Customers Douglas February 27, 2009 Angry Customers , Etiquette 4 Comments Working with angry customers is a part of customer service that can’t be avoided. Leave a Reply « Homework for Training? Let me show you.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Customer Escalations and You Douglas November 06, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service 1 Comment Many customer service managers (especially in small to mid-size businesses) spend quite a bit of time handling something I always refer to as “escalations&#.

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MARCH 20, 2009

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

The company’s quality reputation dropped from 6th in 2009 to 21st in 2010. . “I think Toyota did a good job, and its stock price shows the market shares the same view,&# stated Kazutaka Oshima, president of Rakuten Investment in Tokyo in February of this year. That has been the lowest rank for Japanese car makers in 24 years.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

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APRIL 28, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Rewarding Volunteers Douglas April 28, 2009 Customer Service , Little Things, Big Differences No Comments More and more companies are encouraging conversations in company forums, on blogs, through Twitter, and on similar sites.

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APRIL 30, 2009

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MARCH 16, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives First Contact Resolution Douglas March 16, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service Experience , Little Things, Big Differences 2 Comments First contact resolution is one of the most important things in customer service.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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MARCH 24, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives The Disney Experience Douglas March 24, 2009 Customer Service , Little Things, Big Differences , Specific Companies 1 Comment Last week I blogged about how I would be going to Disney for a day.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Customer Service in Different Countries Douglas March 04, 2009 Customer Satisfaction , Customer Service 7 Comments The consulting company Accenture recently surveyed about 650 senior executives in different industries from 11 countries.

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JULY 15, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Improving a Department in 4 Steps Douglas July 15, 2009 Customer Service , Exercises/Resources 2 Comments Over the last week or so, I have been working with a company on improving the service experience within a small department of theirs.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Call Abandonment Basics Douglas October 21, 2009 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service Experience 4 Comments Phone systems (also called IVRs or PBXes) usually measure something referred to as a call abandonment rate.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Minimum Service Charges Douglas April 16, 2009 Customer Satisfaction 6 Comments I was going to hire a company today to do something fairly simple that would have cost about $45 (that was the advertised price).

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