The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink Imagine dropping onto Earth from another planet. Your task is to explore our economy—jobs, what we produce, and how we hire and train people for those roles. You’re not...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 13: Statistics Behind a Service Revolution
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 13: Statistics Behind a Service Revolution Watermark Consulting hit something of a research jackpot with a simple correlation between stock price and customer service rankings. In the seven years leading up to 2015, they found...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 12: The Keys to Social Customer Service
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 12: The Keys to Social Customer Service Being part of “the conversation”—listening to customers and interacting with them where they are—was until recently a powerful differentiator. But it’s now becoming a...
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,...