Your untapped power lies in being able to find and tell the story hiding in your data, and using that story effectively. Finding and articulating that story proves to be part art and part science. The science lies in interpreting data accurately, ensuring that you find the story but never reach or even approach conclusions [...]
Ensuring customer satisfaction can depend on ensuring employee satisfaction. That is why your Concierge Customer Service journey should also include internal employee surveys. One of the key reasons for conducting an online survey, rather than speaking directly to someone, is to avoid “social desirability response,” (when individuals alter their survey responses when in the presence [...]
As we've covered in the past, the best way to learn about your customers' wants is through the use of surveys. They won't work, however, if you aren't getting responses to your surveys. How do you ensure that you get a sufficient number of responses to your surveys in order to have good data to [...]
Does Any of This Sound Like Your Company? You’re feeling margin pressures, You’re suffering under escalating personnel costs, You’re watching your best customers defect to competitors whom you know aren’t as good as your company is, You feel your business model isn’t as relevant to the market as it was 10-20 years ago, or Your [...]
In a recent discussion with Randy MacLean of WayPoint Analytics, we examined the changing realities of messaging and marketing, and how things are changing so quickly. In the distribution industry, the need to communicate with your market hasn't changed, but the avenues of communication and the audience have changed, giving rise to a lot of us [...]
In this interview with Randy MacLean of WayPoint Analytics, I explain to Randy how using a two-pronged strategy or approach to concierge-level customer service will easily result in an increase in profitability. The first step to creating the strategy is to determine the true profitability of each customer. With this data on profitability, a two-pronged customer [...]
Delivery as a service opportunity: In the past, distributors could choose from just two delivery options. Either you could bring the product to the customer, or the customer could pick it up from you. Fortunately, you're no longer limited to that model today. https://vimeo.com/269901725 Having a problem viewing the video? Click here to watch: [...]
If you called your customer service department anonymously to have a problem resolved, what would your experience be like? And how would you quantify that experience? Measuring the results of your company's problem resolution ability is vitally important. Without determining how effective your resolution process is, or how satisfied your customers are with it, you could [...]