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Customer Retention, A Rant

Partners in Excellence

Granted, we aren’t a huge customer, we’ve bought dozens of computers over the years, but not hundreds or thousands. I called the customer service department anxious to see if there was a way to accelerate the shipment. Losing business that you had previously won is tragic. The first is one of our company’s banks.

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How Not to Minimize Cancellations [Rant]

ConversionXL

You need to focus on retention to win, but cancellations / churn happen no matter what. Forcing people to pick up a phone to call to cancel the service is seriously customer-hating. The post How Not to Minimize Cancellations [Rant] appeared first on CXL. Not by making it harder to cancel. This is the cruelest way to do it.

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Customer Retention, Customer Service, Customer Experience The Rant Goes On

Partners in Excellence

A couple of days ago, I ranted, in part, about my experience with my past computer supplier. I’ve spent hours on the phone with customer service representatives. Each time, I have to go through the same story, give them the same customer numbers, email addresses, problem ID’s.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 333: Q & A with Ben Laws

Heinz Marketing

If you have a comment, a question, a rebuttal, a rant, all fair game, please throw that into the comments here in LinkedIn, and we can make you part of the event. It’s important for, in my case, Canadian side, to get our clients to put it out there and use that shaped trust to get new customers, to retain customers, to convert deals.

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Responding To Customer Experience Disasters!

Partners in Excellence

As much as we try to develop, implement, and execute outstanding customer experiences, sometimes things fall apart and we have a complete disaster. How we respond to these customer service and experience disasters is critical. So we experienced a massive customer service failure. Everything goes wrong! We all fail.

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How To Make Your Brand “Likable” and Win More Revenue

ConversionXL

There are various ways to measure the above outcomes, and there are varying levels of correlation with revenue, retention, and whatever, but they’re all generally good signs. We want other people to like us. It’s a human desire. We also want other people to like our websites. Likability is nebulous, though. Image Source. They buy from you.

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Customer Experience, “Being Managed Or Handled”

Partners in Excellence

Every organization has (or should have) a process for “managing” customer problems. We all believe, that when a customer has a problem we have to resolve it, so we put in place resources, policies, procedures for managing the customer that has problems. ” stamped on our foreheads.