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Institute associates are available to deliver in-depth leading-edge keynote presentations at conferences and company meetings on a variety of Customer Care topics.
CUSTOMER CARE NEWS
Customers Effective Customer Service Requires Not Just Knowledge, But Insight
Achieving the highest quality customer service is an exercise in vigilance. Having the best people, cutting-edge technology and time-tested protocols is certainly helpful. True excellence, however, is not simply a one-time event. It requires a continuous process.
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Culture Retailer Sets Customer-Service Standard
Although Nordstrom is famous for high-end apparel and shoes, its exceptional attention to customer service has set it apart from and ahead of the competition.
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Processes The Thorny Cultural Thicket of Outsourcing, Part 2
Firms must ditch the concept that customer complaints arise from superficial or surface reasons such as having to converse with someone with an accent.
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
People Using Employee Incentive Plans to Your Business’ Advantage
Employee incentives or bonuses can be good managerial tools, but if they’re not used in a way that will encourage employees to do their best – in return bettering the business – they can be ineffective.
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Processes The Lack of Loyalty
When we talk about the customer experience, we aren't trying to replicate Disneyland -- though those folks have done a great job of understanding the customer to the point that they've turned CRM on its ear, preferring to call it "CMR," for the "customer managed experience."
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Processes Make Marketing Measurement Count: Easier Said Than Done
A very large company formed a task force to identify the value gained from the obscene amounts of money it spent on customer information, marketing analytics and reporting. No marketing representative was on the task force.
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Processes Restoring Success
How three companies engineered customer service overhauls to keep clients happy— and crank up growth.
Tuesday, 05 September 2006
People Engaged Employees Are Key to Customer Satisfaction
Employees won't become engaged with service quality just because you wish them to. It takes time and effort to nurture an environment where engagement can take root and grow.
Tuesday, 05 September 2006
Customers More Than Words
Customer-service conversations provide marketing insight.
Tuesday, 05 September 2006
Processes Cost Deflection Out, Customer Experience In, Part 2
It's important to look at the overall lifecycle of a customer, from acquisition to development, to servicing, to retention. Understanding what the customer is going through at each stage brings added context to each interaction.
Tuesday, 05 September 2006


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