Monthly Archives: February 2011

Worst customer service email ever?

Readers – I think a side benefit of writing a service and support blog is having a platform to hold really poor service up for ridicule…right?  We’ll get right back to serious topics next week, but in the meantime, let … Continue reading

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Identifying the “bright spots”

Change is hard. It’s tough to change our behaviors: to eat less or read more. We’ve failed before, so we put up barriers to future attempts at change. I just finished a great book called Switch: How to Change Things … Continue reading

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How Self-Service Fails

Often, the first step in making something work really well is to figure out how it can fail…and then making sure it doesn’t.  In the case of self-service, most studies show that customers are successful less than half of the time … Continue reading

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