Interaction and communication with customers today is difficult. While today's technology is incredibly beneficial in so many ways, it's also made finding or creating an opportunity to engage with a customer – to spend time with them –more difficult than it's ever been. Bluntly, your customers don't want to waste their time on you. They're not [...]
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 [...]
One of the most important practices you can implement in your company is a customer service feedback loop between your customers and customer service. I work with many wholesale distribution companies to set up concierge-style customer service programs, and there are clear benefits of having a feedback mechanism that can be utilized. Having a problem [...]
Obviously, it's easier to reducing customer churn than it is to sell more products, so where should distributors be more keenly focused? In a world where experts consistently say it is seven (or more) times more difficult to create a new customer than it is to sell more to existing customers, it's obviously easier to reduce [...]
In past blogs, I've talked about the importance of garnering testimonials from your customers. Testimonials work for you by providing both feedback from current customers for continual process improvement and social proof for prospective customers. This creates a strategy for securing the customers you already have by constantly improving the outstanding customer-centric service for your [...]