For decades, service has been relegated to the end of the customer lifecycle. It was reactive, transitional, transactional, and traditional. A “fix something that’s gone wrong” function, stuck at the ...

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Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

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A couple of months back, the DSL at my house fizzled over a weekend, with service sporadic to none. On a Sunday, I called Verizon tech support, and the customer service technician walked me through ...

Hilton's CEO said there's one surefire way to build loyalty with a customer. Christopher Nassetta, the executive who has held the hotel chain's reins since 2007, said solving problems for his guests ...

Your customer service goal should be to never say a blunt “no.” Instead, make every effort to arrive at a “yes” for each customer interaction. In the realm of customer service, a knee-jerk “no” ...

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Many call center agents grow up in the U.S. and speak perfect English but are regularly subjected to verbal abuse from bigoted Americans because of their accents, Serebryakov says. Despite Garcia ...

From Zoom meetings to high-definition (HD) video streaming and everything in between, consumers today depend on their mobile phones more than ever before. To understand how mobile usage has evolved ...