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The study examined more than 100 interactions and found that when airline staff were effusive in their apologies it actually diminished their ability to be efficient problem solvers. Mark ...

For decades, service has been relegated to the end of the customer lifecycle. It was reactive, transitional, transactional, and traditional. A “fix something that’s gone wrong” function, stuck at the ...

The future of customer service will be measured in the number of calls eliminated by predictive and prescriptive diagnostics. Gone are the days when your calls are routed to unqualified personnel ...

Just about everyone has a story about a customer service experience. Some were so spectacularly good or bad that they take on a life of their own as they are repeated by many people with no connection ...

That's exactly what the young man on the phone at the bank said to me after I thanked him for not being able to answer my question. He didn't say, "I'm sorry I wasn't able to be of more assistance," ...

A couple of months back, the DSL at my house fizzled over a weekend, with service sporadic to none. On a Sunday, I called Verizon tech support, and the customer service technician walked me through ...

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Loretta Gromo wanted to do something special to celebrate her wedding anniversary, so she decided to book a Royal Caribbean cruise to mark 25 years of marriage to her husband, Bob. After 34 years as ...