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Mystery Shopping Insights
Asking The Right Questions
Mystery shops are a great way to measure if a company’s procedures and protocols are being followed by a company’s associates. Are the floors clean? Are you greeting each customer within 10 seconds of entering the store? How long is the average wait for service? All of these are...
Customer Experience Insights
Google Gets You
It’s April 1st. Hopefully you were prepared for your friends’ and co-workers’ attempts at humor by telling you that your zipper is down or that Pierce Brosnan died. Today we are saluting a company that understands its customers, respects its employees and pranks us all every...
Customer Service Insights
The Value of $18
Rather than take a plane to Chicago to meet with some of my clients, I decided that, for fun, I would try the train. (Blame it on my recent visit to Cincinnati’s beautifully-preserved, sickeningly Art Deco Union Terminal train station, coupled with my love for old movies in...
Customer Service Insights
When You Give Your Customer A Lemon...
Before I found my true calling as a Client Services Manager at IntelliShop, I made my living as a fishing guide in the Florida Keys. Being in my small boat with my customers, 8 hours or more at a time, miles from civilization, was the crucible that helped forge my understanding...
Customer Service Insights
Rogue Mystery Shoppers
Many companies choose to employ mystery shoppers and mystery shopping companies to ensure their employees are offering the best and most reliable service they can. Firms improve the customer service they offer, shoppers earn money, and sometimes employees even receive bonuses...
Mystery Shopping Insights
No Roses on Valentine's Day
We have a little flower shop here in Perrysburg. It's a block from my house, and I buy a lot of flowers and other stuff there. For the past several years on Valentine's Day, I walk in and buy a dozen roses for my lovely wife Lori. This year, when I arrived mid-afternoon and...
Customer Loyalty Insights
That's Just The Way It Is
Bruce Hornsby famously sang, “That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change.” A younger generation of readers will recall those lyrics as they were sampled by 2pac some years ago, and the words are no less relevant now. Dr. Chip Bell, an expert consultant on customer...
Customer Focus Insights
Thieves In Florida Provide A Better Customer Experience
An article in this week's Time Magazine describes how thieves are using more sophisticated techniques and technology for identity theft. They steal ATM account numbers and PIN codes, then create new ATM cards and withdraw thousands of dollars from customers' accounts in a short...
Mystery Shopping Insights
Jump Start 2011 Sales & Staff Motivation
Want an easy way to jump-start your sales in 2011, while at the same time helping your associates and managers avoid or get out of the post-holiday blahs? Run an upsell contest and reward your star performers. Studies have shown that uspell contests measured using active mystery...
Customer Service Insights
Customer Service Opportunities Are Everywhere
How many opportunities for providing good customer service are there in one simple store visit? My wife Lori visited the local store of a national warehouse chain today, one she goes to often, and that she usually has a good experience at. Today…not so much. Among the things she...
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