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Customer Service development
Posted under General by Geoff Langston on Thursday May 17 2007 @ 10:29AM BST
Some while ago, Currys, the electrical store, was featured in the Sunday Times which reported on the extensive two year customer service staff training initaitive that they had undertaken. Currys provided a number of positive statistics which indicated the success of the project. More recently a survey [...]
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Last modified: Thursday November 27 2008 @ 08:14PM GMT

Customer Service – how do you like your publicit
Posted under General by Geoff Langston on Thursday April 12 2007 @ 03:30PM BST
When was the last time you saw an article about GREAT customer service, in fact how often does good news appear in the press apart from as an after thought? Perhaps you saw the articles in the weekend press about Edwina Currie in Mothercare, along with Lloyds Bank and the issues with its call centres. [...]
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Last modified: Thursday March 05 2009 @ 08:13AM GMT

Customer Service - a Priority
Posted under General by chris on Friday December 22 2006 @ 11:56AM GMT
A survey of the UK's top business minds conducted by change management consultancy Egremont revealed that two in three business leaders expressed plans to commit the most budget to customer service in 2007 - ahead of other spending options such as IT, marketing, compliance and finance.
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Last modified: Tuesday July 01 2008 @ 03:51PM BST

Engaging Staff at John Lewis
Posted under General by chris on Thursday December 21 2006 @ 08:50AM GMT
John Lewis's weekly in-house magazine, The Gazette, encourages vigorous debate about – and often criticism of – the Partnership by staff in a remarkable correspondence section, typically four pages, in which staff are free to write anonymously and as critically as they like. According to the Partnership: [...]
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Last modified: Saturday June 28 2008 @ 07:13PM BST

Measuring Customer Satisfaction
Posted under General by chris on Monday December 18 2006 @ 06:17PM GMT
An interesting discussion in the current edition of The Gallup Management Journal on Measuring Customer Satisfaction

Bain & Company's Frederick Reichheld has argued that there's a single, magic question that business leaders should ask their customers in order to grow. His viewpoint has won many [...]

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Last modified: Friday December 26 2008 @ 11:56AM GMT

Call Centre Services 'declining'
Posted under General by chris on Tuesday December 12 2006 @ 10:10AM GMT
More than a third of Briton's believe call centre service has worsened in the last year according to a survey by Empirix.Telecoms companies provided the worst service the survey said.

Source: BBC News

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Last modified: Wednesday September 03 2008 @ 08:16AM BST

Customer Centricity
Posted under General by chris on Tuesday December 12 2006 @ 09:43AM GMT
Random acts of kindness by customer friendly personnel are NOT the same as customer centricity.

The key: Interact, REMEMBER, respond

Source: Martha Rogers, Peppers & Rogers Group
www.1to1.com [...]

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Last modified: Friday April 10 2009 @ 04:24PM BST

One Boss
Posted under General by chris on Tuesday December 12 2006 @ 08:51AM GMT
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."



(Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, now the world’s biggest company

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Last modified: Friday April 24 2009 @ 05:22PM BST

Customer Attrition
Posted under General by chris on Wednesday December 06 2006 @ 06:27AM GMT
Did you know that the average company loses more than half its customers every 4 years? Why?

It's simple. Most companies start to think they're more important than their customers. And they get greedy, too. That's when they try to stick it to their customers in ways they don't think their customers [...]

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Last modified: Saturday March 14 2009 @ 11:29PM GMT

Getting Customer Information
Posted under General by chris on Thursday November 30 2006 @ 08:55AM GMT
The internet has been identified as the best place to gather customer data, with more than 75% of consumers giving out personal information online. This compares to 46% who give information by post and 45% via branded marketing materials. Although just 1% provide personal data via mobile phone, this [...]
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Last modified: Wednesday April 15 2009 @ 06:34PM BST

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