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I was speaking with one of my personal physicians years ago, and when we were talking about my work – particularly customer satisfaction research – he started talking about online physician ratings.  He lamented that a few low ratings were dinging his overall score.  Then he shared that the low ratings were often because his […]

One of the customer service statistics we have quoted many times over the years is:  For every complaint you do hear, there could be 26 other customer issues that you don’t hear. And when we bring up that statistic, we bring it up because we want to make sure companies and individuals realize that “no […]

I believe that most customer service people are pretty humble, so I’m not asking you to lose your humility.  But I do have one ask of you… When that customer is anxious or nervous, when they fear the future because the future is unknown or it could be laced with negative outcomes, part of what […]