"You'll have to wait." "It's our policy." "We can't do that." "We're kinda busy right now." We all know the familiar sounds of bad or mediocre service about to happen. We cringe and suddenly feel the ...

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Customer service is a vital part of any customer-facing business – it is an especially necessary part of the success of a retail business. Although often ignored as a security function, customer ...

Measuring the bottom-line effects of customer service has traditionally been difficult, but a new study quantifies its impact: 73% of consumers say that good customer service encourages them to spend ...

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Here is the story of how one utility provided us good, then better, then ultimately the best customer service. My family moved last month, a challenging undertaking in the best of times and a whole ...

In Lily Tomlin's classic SNL comedy sketch, her telephone operator "Ernestine" famously delivers the punchline, "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company." But new research finds that ...

The combination of automated call systems and endless hold Muzak is downright enraging. Few things are more frustrating than having to explain your problem to multiple people and finding that none of ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Now that the holiday season is in full swing, consumers are busy checking off gift lists, bargain hunting, power shopping and… enduring ...