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When Live Chat Won’t Help Poor Customer Service

Velaro

There are two major customer service problems live chat can readily fix, and two major problems it can help with but not significantly impact on its own. The four major customer service problems I’m referring to are: Understaffed Teams –. documenting the details of an interaction in a CRM).

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Understanding Negative NPS Score: Causes, Impact and Solutions

Lumoa

Before we dive into our remedies, let’s take a look at some of the root causes that could be behind your score going south: Inadequate or Poor Customer Service Many customers tend to be unforgiving if their support experience isn’t up to scratch. Microsoft’s Zune debacle is a perfect example of this.

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Bad Customer Service Rarely Results in Profitability

Beyond Philosophy

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. We tap our toes and roll our eyes as we wait. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today.

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Six customer service mistakes you probably don’t know you’re making (and how to fix them)

Vonage

Satisfaction levels among customer service staff are notoriously low – indeed, according to one survey of 200,000 employees, it was found that customer-facing staff had significantly lower levels of engagement than those in executive positions. With numbers like that, it’s unsurprising that customer service suffers.

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The high and lows of airline customer service

Helen Dewdney

Airlines would do well to note that consumers are beginning to say that they will pay more for lower risk of poor customer service. 86% of respondents said that they would pay more for better service than Ryanair gives. Reward good service. For example, resolve an issue within “x” time and get “y” reward.

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Here’s why Thematic analysis beats sentiment analysis

Thematic

Consider these two examples: “ great customer service ” vs “ poor customer service ”. If you know what these themes are, you can monitor your team’s performance over time to drive real improvements. Knowing whether something is positive or negative does not answer the question “ Why? ”.

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Starbucks Could Have Avoided Losing $20 Million, And So Can You

Customer Guru

However, having said that, I believe it was, in part, a fault from the manager’s end for reporting on two customers, who were just waiting for another person to join them. All this for a waiting time of a paltry two minutes! Companies have strict policies for certain reasons, and we know that.