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Snippets: Exemplary customer service from a tiny watch repair shop
What is customer service to you? Just friendliness and courtesy? It is much more than that. A neighborhood small watch repair shop showed great customer service splendidly.
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What can an airline learn from an enlightened service approach?
As a marketing, branding and public relations practitioner since 1990s, I also wear another even earlier hat, that of customer service and process quality (since 1980s). What can the recent United Airlines incident benefit from an enlightened service approach?
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Empathy, and not AI or automation, is the REAL enabler of UX and UI
Today, my family had the most unpleasant experience at a local McDonald’s outlet, where patrons waited for an hour (my family waited for half an hour) for what seemed like simple breakfast orders. The problem? Let’s start with the new self-service kiosks.
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Customer service excellence and a little Indian vegetarian eatery
We are simple consumers. We have a simple wish – to have a pleasant experience whenever we enter a service establishment, and to come out of it just a little happier. Is it that esoteric a wish? I do not think so.
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Self-determination and customer service
Every customer has free will and is increasingly able and willing to determine what his needs and wants are, and to speak loudly for them.
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Excellent quality and service are not accidents
Have you traveled on the metro and bullet trains in Japan before? Then you must have wondered why their trains are punctual, well-maintained, and consistent.
