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Continental employees go out of their way to help stranded pooch

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The airlines seem to frequently score high grades in the customer service rudeness polls, but every once in a while we need to acknowledge those who go above and beyond what is expected and congratulate the company for hiring and maintaining such excellent employees – you know those dedicated people who don’t have to read those extra customer service suggestions in their manuals.

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Navigating the Customer Loyalty Highway: Avoiding a Crash from Negative Customer Emotions & Effort

Pretium Solutions

Customer experience research from the Customer Contact Council tells us that reducing customer effort is a critical component in building customer loyalty. The more actual, or even perceived, effort customers must invest in the customer experience, the lower the chances they will start or continue down the road toward product, brand or company loyalty – the Loyalty Highway.

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Online shopping demand troubles frustrate Yule shoppers

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Just days before Christmas, Best Buy canceled online orders dating back to November because it ran out of some of the hot merchandise. Target’s website crashed twice while Wal-Mart and Barney’s also ran out of popular inventory. Best Buy apologized for the inconvenience and offered gift cards to affected shoppers, but shoppers have long memories and having to get out into the world of shopping malls just days before Santa is due to arrive can harbor some long-lasting ill feelings abo

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Navigating the Customer Loyalty Highway: Avoiding a Crash from Negative Customer Emotions & Effort

Pretium Solutions

Customer experience research from the Customer Contact Council tells us that reducing customer effort is a critical component in building customer loyalty. The more actual, or even perceived, effort customers must invest in the customer experience, the lower the chances they will start or continue down the road toward product, brand or company loyalty – the Loyalty Highway.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Navigating the Customer Loyalty Highway: Avoiding a Crash from Negative Customer Emotions & Effort

Pretium Solutions

Customer experience research from the Customer Contact Council tells us that reducing customer effort is a critical component in building customer loyalty. The more actual, or even perceived, effort customers must invest in the customer experience, the lower the chances they will start or continue down the road toward product, brand or company loyalty – the Loyalty Highway.

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3 Resolutions for Excellent Customer Service in 2012

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Well, the ribbons are barely off the holiday packages and we are still digesting the last of the figgy pudding, so that means it must be time for us to fill the air with lots of resolutions for 2012. In these waning days of 2011, we hear much pontificating on those things that will make life better for everyone in 2012. Many of these resolutions will be fairy tale fancies that do not even have a chance of coming true … but this is also a time when we can honestly reflect on worthy and important

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3 Resolutions for Excellent Customer Service in 2012

Pretium Solutions

Well, the ribbons are barely off the holiday packages and we are still digesting the last of the figgy pudding, so that means it must be time for us to fill the air with lots of resolutions for 2012. In these waning days of 2011, we hear much pontificating on those things that will make life better for everyone in 2012. Many of these resolutions will be fairy tale fancies that do not even have a chance of coming true … but this is also a time when we can honestly reflect on worthy and important