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CUSTOMER CARE NEWS
People Carnival Cruise Call Center Can't Recruit
Florida center has trouble finding enough agents for high-paying sales jobs. Starting pay is a mere $16,500, but with $50 commission on each cruise sold, most agents make about $40,000 a year.
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Customers The Heartbreak of Customer Service
What has happened to customer service and where is it headed? For those who observe change, the future of customer service appears bleak. But is there a way for the multichannel direct marketer to win the War for the heart of their customers?
Monday, 23 January 2006
Customers Good Customer Service Goes Unnoticed
While I was sitting at the table I started thinking of why you never hear of the nice servers. All we seem to ever hear about are the horror stories that pop up involving wasted time, rudeness or ineptitude. I think some of this is because people do not recognize good service these days. I like to think we gave Whitney a nice large tip for being such a good waitress, if my math skills were working correctly that is.
Monday, 23 January 2006
Customers Improving Sales Through Customer Satisfaction
Sales not where you want them no matter what you do? So how do we fix the problem? Just about everyone out there with a sales force has had this problem at one time or another.
Wednesday, 18 January 2006
People What It Means to be a Call Center Manager
What it comes down to is learning to see the call center from a point of view based on the ultimate goal. "Happy customers" is shorthand for a complex relationship between company and customer base where both sides get what they want from each other.
Wednesday, 18 January 2006
Customers Customer Service is a Winning Formula (Kampala)
Open a newspaper, turn on a radio or television, you will see and hear endless adverts that boldly shout that you should spend your money at this place or that one because of the customer service.
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Processes Hail to the Customer
Return on investment (ROI) quantifies how well a firm creates value from a given investment. But what quantifies how well a company creates value from its customers? For this you need the metric of Return on Customer (ROC). The ROC equation has the same form as an ROI equation.
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Technology Improving Customer Service by Automating Your Phone Business
Along with providing an automatic order status for customers and minimizing the amount of time a customer is on hold, automating phone sales operations can unearth a wealth of information from identifying why calls are lost and how your customers are being treated to identifying training needs, highlighting problem calls and detecting and preventing employee theft.
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Customers Customers Come First
When customers experience a marketing message, there are three subliminal questions they ask themselves: "Who are you, and why should I care?" "What do you want from me?" and, "What is in it for me?" If the answers are not apparent and compelling, the customer will be long gone.
Monday, 16 January 2006
Processes More Call Centers Outsourcing to Homes
Instead of sending call-center work to India or the Philippines, a growing number of consumer-products and consumer-services companies - from Office Depot and J. Crew to Wyndham Hotels and Sears Holdings - are outsourcing work to people in their homes in the United States.
Monday, 16 January 2006


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