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12 Customer Service Challenges Faced by Fast-Growing Industries

transcosmos Information Systems

Using outdated systems gives customers an idea that they aren’t putting consumer needs ahead. Aviation/Airlines. High airfares, poor customer service. When people decide on an airline, they expect to get what they pay for—considering the whopping amounts of airfares nowadays.

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Is British Airways providing better customer service or are they stalking you?

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.” The company claims the iPad based system is intended to proactively recreate “the feeling of recognition” a customer often delights in when they walk into their favorite restaurant and the maitre d’ or the owner of the establishment knows their name and greets them personally. Customer service for Web users?

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How not to act when customer service fails miserably

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Picture a client, who for three hours tried in vain to get an issue resolved at an alleged home security organization, and went from agent to agent until finally customer service representative Michelle left a number for the client to call.

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6 Things Every CEO Should Know about Customer Service

Tricia Morris

companies alone each year due to poor customer service. But according to the same report, after a positive customer experience, 69% of consumers would recommend the company to others and 50% would use the business more frequently. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn’t have customer service.

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3 Customer Service Lessons (Past, Present and Future) from A Christmas Carol

Tricia Morris

According to Microsoft’s 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service, 97% say that customer service is very important or somewhat important in their choice of, or loyalty to, a brand, and 62% say that they’ve stopped doing business with a brand due to a poor customer service experience.

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Is self-service better than live customer service?

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Assuming there are no waiting lines, would you opt to use a self-service kiosk at the airport to check-in or would you prefer to interact with an airline agent? I think we have all been the victims of poor customer service; those agents who hate their jobs, have no solutions, and should never have picked up the phone that day.

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Beyond Service: 14 Strategies to Improve Customer Satisfaction

SurveySensum

Offer Exceptional Customer Service According to a Forbes report on “What customers want and expect” 92% of customers say they would stop purchasing from a company after three or fewer poor customer service experiences.