Traffic Jammed Customer Service

How many of us have endured endless wait times when calling customer service numbers? Or suffered through long lines at a POS counter? Or even waiting for a website to load and log you in for online self service. All of these are cases of "traffic jams" in the customer services of an organization.

Quality of Customer Experience

In a recent discussion in Gary Lemke's blog posts, the aspect of speed of CRM has been the center of attention. In today's post, the concept is linked to customer delight. Though I appreciate the perspective of the speed of the customer interaction being important to the whole customer experience, I believe that there is something more important than the speed that in a lot of cases results in more satisfied customers.

Preempting Services… Is this the next step?

Traditionally, we wait for our customers to reach out to us for services. Customers go to our self service websites, contact us on social networks, call our call centres or even walk into our service centres to get their queries answered. This is as I term it “Reactive” services. We wait for the customers to come to us. While this works great in a lot of cases, organisations need differentiators.

Employee Satisfaction is directly proportional to Customer Satisfaction

“He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.” – Philip Massinger. We must have hear similar sayings though-out or lives, be it by our parents (explaining to us how we can succeed in life) or our bosses (explaining to us how to lead a team). I have however, thought of putting this in context of Customer Satisfaction. This is how I would say it: “He who wants his customers satisfied, first should satisfy his employees”.

Problem Orientation Vs Solution Orientation

How do you react when a problem is put in front of you? Do you think of the problem or think about the solution?

Let me start with a short story about my recent experience with a customer service desk. Initially, I had a tough time to explain the problem and try to get hold of someone who could help me.