customer satisfaction

Service Recovered..thanks BT

by admin on October 5, 2011

There has been a lot of comment recently on Twitter in particular about customers being left for a long time without their BT service…these comments have not been good on the hole.. customer rage has been at full tilt..search #BTcare on Twitter for a sample…customer complaints have been high As examples of good experiences they [...]

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Lovely weather and the chance to sit outside and have a light lunch with some friends… Cafes, pubs and restaurants are having their own Indian summer as people take advantage of the late summer rush and spend more time and money on having a nice time. This is the time when these outlets can make customers their [...]

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Service Recovery

by admin on September 26, 2011

A nice meal for two on Saturday could easily have led to arguments and bad feeling….not between myself and my wife  but between us and the restaurant. Everything started out well but then after having our drinks delivered things started to fall apart… We were given the wrong starters, not a mix up between our [...]

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Who “Looks After” your Customer?

by admin on March 8, 2011

One thing that I have learnt in nearly 30 years in business is that you have to look after your customers because if you don’t somebody else will!  In the ever-automated world that we live in, larger businesses have rightly used technology to help them provide their products and services to their markets, quicker and [...]

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Switched on to Customer Service?

by admin on February 10, 2011

Last night was the end of the series of Secret Shopper the Mary Portas TV event that has opened our eyes to the changing customer service for the better. It was a great series with some cringe worthy examples of blatant poor customer service coupled with some pretty memorable lines,”West facing is the new South facing”from last [...]

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Talk Talk Wooden Spoon

by admin on January 12, 2011

Next week sees the new Mary Portas series Secret Shopper starting on C4,Wednesday 9pm. This will be a must watch because it seeks to show warts and all the lack of customer service that seems normal in this country. Scary Mary gathers the evidence and confronts the chiefs to show them just how bad things [...]

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Customers are a bloody nuisance…

by admin on November 16, 2010

The full Buisness Week Editors  quote went along these lines “The customer has become a bloody nuisance whose unpredictable behaviour damages carefully made strategic plans,whose activities mess up computer operations and who stubbornly insists that purchased products should work” Managing that unpredictability is what makes some companies great and others no so. Research has shown on numerous occasions that customers don’t always complain, [...]

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Over selling your up sell…

by admin on August 19, 2010

Stop asking me…. So you’re in Smith’s and you are just about to pay when the assistant asks,”would you like some chocolate,it’s on special offer,two for the price of one?” Or you are paying for your petrol and as you pay a never to be missed offer is up sold to you, Red Bull, three [...]

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Every Little helps….not in Berkhamsted

by admin on August 12, 2010

Tesco Metro in Berkhamsted don’t seem to understand the basics of customer service.It seems that every little help is too much effort…. They open at 7am and staff are there to clean and bake at 5.00am. At 8.00am the baked goods are rarely on the shelf…why?No idea… The delivery could be late of course which [...]

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