Customer Service Stories: Stop Subcontractors From Killing Your Customers

Customer Service Stories: Snorkeling Guide Truck

One of the trickier parts of delivering an exceptional customer experience is when you cede control of the experience to subcontractors. Maintaining service standards with the company’s team is challenging enough; maintaining those same levels of service through a subcontractor can border on the impossible. The experience we had when vacationing on the island of [...]

Customer Service Stories: Getting to the Root of Customer Service

Customer Service at Dental Office

  Guest Poster: Kaarina Dillabough It is my pleasure to introduce Kaarina Dillabough, former Olympic coach and current make-your-life-and-business-better coach, as our first guest poster. Kaarina is the perfect person to launch the Customer Service Stories series, because she has an engaging way of telling a story while still being able to analyze the systems [...]

Customer Service Stories: Introducing The New Series

Customer Service Stories Header

Last Saturday, I wrote that this blog would be changing tack and focusing on the customer service experience. One of the most exciting aspects of this conversion is the launch of the Customer Service Stories series. The idea behind Customer Service Stories is to discuss the principles of superior customer service through the lens of [...]

Surprise! A Lesson in Superior Customer Service

Hotel Indigo Asheville, NC

During a recent vacation, we were fortunate enough to stay at the Hotel Indigo in Asheville, NC where we received a great lesson in top-notch customer service and the art of surprise. A Birthday in the Mountains We were in Asheville to celebrate a milestone birthday of my wife’s (which milestone, I am sworn to [...]

Chick-fil-A Does Customer Service – In a Parking Lot

Chick-fil-A traffic cop

As someone who believes that customer service is the ultimate differentiator in business, I am always on the lookout for examples of outstanding service. Great customer service can come from anywhere – from businesses where you expect no less (Nordstrom) to businesses where you are thrilled to just to be treated like a human being [...]

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