


“You have to serve…like nobody else does.”
Here’s a quotation worth discussing with your team. “Manufacturers are struggling all over the place to call themselves a manufacturer, when in reality there’s a firm in Korea, China, India copying their product with incredible detail. Today, what you have...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World If you were to walk into an Amazon.com customer contact center, you’d see desks turned sideways so that Fire tablet support agents have a neutral background for video calls (one-way,...
Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends
Earlier this week, I joined Laura Sikorski on the WebTV show, Sikorski’s Think Abouts. In this 12-minute interview, we discuss the trends shaping service and how to meet today’s fast-evolving customer expectations.
How Many Customer Service Interactions Go Wrong?
According to a Nuance commissioned survey of 1,000 American consumers, a quarter (26 percent) of customer service interactions are a negative experience. Among Generation X consumers—those born between 1965 to 1980—this number rises to more than one-third (36...