The way customers interact with your business — whether positively or negatively — plays a crucial part in how your company is perceived and whether you can keep and expand your customer base. However ...

In the world of customer service, we often encounter an intriguing concept known as the service recovery paradox. When customers come to you with a problem, they're often upset and on edge. It's a ...

I have a favorite customer service anecdote that I’ve been using in most of my workshops for many years. Some may even say that I need a new story! However, the reason I stick with this story is ...

It is a fact that any organization, no matter how well-prepared, will occasionally undergo a service failure. A service failure, whether big or small, can make or break relationships with customers.

The Service Recovery Paradox theory proposes that customers who have problems resolved to their satisfaction may be more loyal than those who have no problems. Pixabay You've likely heard laments like ...

Life doesn't always go perfectly. Neither does business. From time to time, mistakes will happen, and we will let customers down. And while service missteps are always upsetting (to the customer and ...

Consumer complaints and high unemployment may help reverse the trend of outsourcing customer service jobs to developing countries. "In the last 10 years, over one million jobs have been sent to India ...

Your company already has a customer service recovery framework (a system for dealing with upset customers), right? If not, it’s time to put one in place, I’d argue. And I mean now. Because when ...

Service businesses who rely on customer-facing front liners are probably aware that knowing what to do when customers are angry or dissatisfied is crucial, and that resolving any disputes quickly will ...

Customer service recovery is all about fixing problems and making customers happy. It's how a business tackle complaints and issues on a way that not only fixes the problem but also improves customer ...