Customer Service Blog Posts

Great customer service is the best! It's like playing with a puppy while eating a marshmallow only box of Lucky Charms while falling asleep on your grandmothers lap - yeah, it's that good. So we thought it would be fun to put together a list of customer service all stars from film…

January is National Soup Month. Aside from the fact that there’s a near 100% chance you didn’t know that, you’re probably wondering what soup has to do with customer support. The answer? Everything. Customer service is like soup. It’s warm and friendly, comprised of the ultimate combination of tips and tricks that…

The North Pole Elves, aka Santa's Helpers, are an industrious and creative bunch of customer service representatives, without whom the world would be devoid of magical toys and fudge stripe cookies. (Nevermind about the cookies – wrong elves.) These pointy-eared beings may be hidden from view nearly the entire year, but much like SAS' call…

Did you know that holiday shopping through e-commerce sites has been steadily increasing by 3.5% each year? If you are an e-commerce retailer, then some of the hottest shopping days to boost yearly revenue have just flown by: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Super Saturday, and Cyber Monday. And there are still 19 shopping days left…

Did you know CSRs answer over 5 million calls annually? And you thought you got a lot of calls. Yeah. No. In the infographic below, we’ll pick apart the noggin of an awesome call center agent so you can see the the anatomical functions behind just how she (or he) is able to take…

Despite the perpetual expansion of technology in business, did you know that talking with a real person is still the preferred method of communication 79% of the time? There can be no doubt that advances such as IVR, automated emails, and web-based self-service have made the way customers interact with your business…

If you’ve ever seen Three Men and a Baby, then you might remember the scene where Tom Selleck is lulling the little baby to sleep reading a sports article about a bloodied and bruised boxing champ. Who would read that to a baby? Well, as he points out, “It doesn’t matter what…

Do you think your business is running smoothly? How about your customer service department? Is it exceptional? Are your employees representing your business in a positive light? If you aren’t 100% sure about the answers to these questions, then as a business owner, it’s your job to find out. If you want…

What happens after a bad customer service experience? What happens when the customer decides to ditch your business in favor of your competitors? Does it end there, or does that customer sing like a canary about how they were treated and why they left? There are a ton of studies and statistics…

How could Mr. Grinch, who is as cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel, be anything short of the world’s worst customer service representative? Well, despite the Grinch’s propensity towards being a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich, with arsenic sauce, there are a few valuable customer service lessons we…