Customers.com Strategies

  • Contractor Do’s and Don’ts

    Why Customer Experience Is So Important When Choosing a Contractor

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    There are a lot of missteps that service providers can make when trying to win someone’s business. Here are tips on what to do and what not to do.
    Sep. 3, 2014
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  • A Community Fights for Its Right to Healthcare

    Customers Enlist Regulators to Preserve Services In Boothbay, Maine

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    Elderly healthcare customers on the Boothbay peninsula in Maine are seeking help from Maine’s Health & Human Services’ regulators to keep 24-hour services local. MaineHealth requires seniors to drive dangerous roads at night for help.
    Aug. 22, 2014
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  • The CaringBridge Customer Ecosystem

    Millions of People and Hundreds of Companies Align around Patients’ Health Journeys

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    CaringBridge.org’s apps and tools help to provide emotional support during a health crisis. Using an online journal and guest book, each patient can provide updates for friends and family to track.
    Aug. 8, 2014
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  • Ten Steps that May Save (or Improve) Your Life

    Prepare Now to Engage as a Patient and/or Advocate for Someone You Love

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    Let Patients Help! by Dave deBronkart with Dr. Danny Sands is a valuable patient engagement handbook. This little book should be a key resource for you and your family. You’ll learn about important steps in taking charge of your own health.
    Jul. 10, 2014
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  • We’ll Get Back to You

    Callback Technology Can Give Customers Back the Time They Spend Waiting to Talk to You

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    We all hate waiting on hold. With automated callback technology, we may never have to again! But you have to make sure that you manage your implementation well so customers are never stuck waiting for a call that never comes.
    Jul. 3, 2014
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  • Do You See What I See?

    Why Customer Service Reps Need to Be Able to Access What Customers Actually Saw

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    When customers can see information within their account pages on your website that your support agents can’t see, how can they trust your CSRs to really help when there are problems?
    Jun. 19, 2014
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  • Customer Journey Mapping

    How to Ensure that Your Customer Experience Journey Map Reflects Your Customers’ Scenarios

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    Here’s how to create a Customer Experience Journey Map. Map the ideal experience for key customer segments. Identify the customers’ Moments of Truth in each Customer Scenario. Combine these as the backbone of your end-to-end customer journey.
    May. 23, 2014
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  • Do’s and Don’ts of Telephone Support

    Making It Easy to Navigate through IVR Hell and Get a Positive Telephone Support Experience

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    Think you provide great customer service? When did you last check out what your customers experience when they call your support line? Are they stuck in an infinite IVR loop? And, when they get to a real person, are their issues resolved?
    May. 15, 2014
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  • Can a Contest Improve the “Production of Health”?

    How Esther Dyson Is Using the Way to Wellville Challenge to Promote Collaborative Innovation

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    The Way to Wellville is a community health innovation contest among five communities in the U.S. The towns will have five years to dramatically improve health outcomes by focusing on the determinants of health, rather than on the treatment of disease.
    May. 9, 2014
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  • Amazon Covers the “Last Mile”

    Can the Etailer Improve on UPS, et al. to Create a Customer-Delighting Delivery Service?

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    Amazon will deliver packages the “Last Mile.” How can they improve on what UPS, FedEx, and the USPS are doing to delight customers?
    May. 1, 2014
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  • Inconsistent Customer Service Information from Bank of America

    Four Different CSRs; Four Different Responses

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    Trying to sign up to automatically pay my new Bank of America credit card balance each month turned into a long, frustrating mess because of inconsistent processes and the fact that not all CSRs knew what could be done!
    Apr. 17, 2014
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  • Patterns from Customer Service Suppliers’ VOC

    Survey Results from KANA and Nuance about Customers’ Service Experiences

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    How do customers want to answer questions and solve problems with products and companies? In 2013, 63% of customers successfully resolved their issues using self-service. But 71% of those who weren’t successful spent over 30 minutes trying.
    Mar. 14, 2014
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  • Interviewing End-Customers

    Tips and Sample Questionnaires

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    Interviewing customers is the best way to understand what they do, what they need, and what they care about. But effective interviewing is an art and a skill to be nurtured. Here are tips and samples to help you get the most out of customer interviews.
    Feb. 6, 2014
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  • How to Use VOC to Create Fitness Fans for Life

    Blair McHaney Uses Daily VOC to Improve Customer Experience and Front-Line Engagement at Gold’s Gyms in Washington

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    Meet visionary customer advocate Blair McHaney. He uses customer metrics and methods in daily operation, leveraging a customer-centric culture and Medallia VOC software.
    Jan. 23, 2014
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  • Recovering from the Crisis of Missed Holiday Deliveries

    How Well Are Etailers and Shippers Dealing with Customers’ Anger?

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    With so many packages not delivered in time for the holidays, etailers and delivery companies had a lot of explaining to do and apologies to make. What can be done to avoid this type of customer experience disaster next holiday season?
    Jan. 10, 2014
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  • My 2013 Holiday Customer Experience Heroes

    Lessons to be Learned from Customer Support at Small Companies: Standing Stone Farms and Geoff & Drew’s

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    Small businesses often provide the best customer experience because they offer a personal experience. What can your organization learn from these small companies?
    Dec. 19, 2013
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  • Cloud Computing in 2015

    End-Customers’ Priorities Will Drive Companies’ Customer Cloud Implementations

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    Customers want access to their information from anywhere and from any device. The best way to provide that access is via the cloud. By 2015, we predict that customer clouds will abound. Will you be ready?
    Dec. 13, 2013
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  • Why I Am No Longer a Sears Customer

    Sears.com Fails to Deliver on Promises

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    Sears has failed this shopper for the last time! Read the sad, sad story of hours wasted, responses not received, and powerless customer service agents following self-serving customer service practices.
    Dec. 5, 2013
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  • How Valuable and Sustainable Is Twitter’s Customer Ecosystem?

    What Is a Twitter End-Customer Worth to Investors?

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    Twitter is more than a company. It’s a customer ecosystem with seven layers of different types of players—each benefitting from their use of Twitter’s social media platform.
    Nov. 22, 2013
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  • Why the Healthcare.gov Insurance Exchange Bombed

    Policy Makers Insisted on a Customer-Unfriendly Workflow

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    The long-awaited U.S. government Federal health insurance exchange, healthcare.gov, went live on October 1, 2013 and quickly proved impossible to use. Would-be customers were subjected to long delays. Here’s why.
    Nov. 7, 2013
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