Managing Customer Contacts

Customer contacts

You work extremely hard to attract customers for your business. Once you have them, managing your customer contacts can help you keep them from jumping to competitors.

Are You Hearing Your Customers?

Customer communication

How can you ensure your ‘tracking service’ is on? Keep communication open to always hear your customers. Don’t just send messages; encourage theirs, as well. Learn more in this article.

Your Career Action Plan for the New Year

Manager going up the career ladder

If you’ve resolved to move your career forward into a new industry, occupation or level of responsibility, increase your chances of success with this three-part action plan focused on results. 1. Know your career objective Knowing your career objective may sound obvious and easy. If, however, you are dissatisfied with your current position, it can … Read more

Thank Goodness for Customer Complaints

customer service choices

If I was thinking of buying stocks and shares in a company – or more importantly buying products from them – I would try to find out how good they are at dealing with customer complaints.

Bringing True Customer Focus in to Reality

Customer focus graph

In spite of all the catchy slogans and corporate pledges, customer service levels of major corporations have only slightly improved in the last few years. This is because they ate consumed by task-focus.

Don’t Leave Me Hanging On The Telephone

Telephone Dog

Recent reports on charges levied by a range of service providers, especially banks, provide some interesting food for thought. The Which! Survey suggested that some providers are making money from customer contact centres, leaving customers waiting for several minutes in a queue, with little transparency as to whether callers are ringing a free number or … Read more