Customer Service
Outstanding customer service gives any franchise business an unbeatable competitive advantage. Achieve this by training and empowering local management, and consider retaining a third-party expert to manage real-time feedback. Learn about programs, resources, and tools to improve customer service and gain important feedback to use at both the local and corporate level.
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Can your brand's front-line customer service go from bad to great?
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There is absolutely no greater skill that can be acquired and constantly worked at that can have a bigger impact on us personally and professionally than the ability to build an instant rapport with others, whether they are an acquaintance, customer, co-worker, or a total stranger.
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One of my close friends called me and said his son, who had recently graduated college, was looking for a good financial services firm he could do business with in the city where he was living.
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To be a professional disruptor, you must be willing to take risks. This means you must be willing to fail.
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Most franchise company leaders preach to their home office team that they also have customers: operations, development, marketing, field reps, and all the other corporate employees who franchisees count on every day to deliver what they need to serve their own customers.
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Dealing with customer complaints that make it to senior executives is a critically important strategy.
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Social media marketing news you can use. This week: 1) Instagram is the clear leader in online photo sharing; 2) What are Twitter Moments, and how can you use them to market your brand?; 3) Huggies provides a good model for how to use Facebook and Twitter to engage; and 4) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans a 50-state listening tour in 2017.
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Do you have the courage to post all of your customer reviews, including the worst ones? John DiJulius shows why it actually might be a great idea.
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Turning unhappy customers into loyal ones is easy enough -- if you empower and train your front-line employees to act. See what customer service guru John Tschohl has to say about service recovery.
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Southwest Airlines, a perennial leader in customer service management, offers many lessons for franchise brands interested in increasing customers, sales, and profitability.
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In this age of digital analytics, modern marketers still can gain many valuable insights from that "old school" tool: the live, in-person, one-on-one telephone call! Here are 10 insights for your consideration.
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How do you go beyond platitudes about customer service to systems that engage customers and deliver marketing impact through a superior customer experience? Top franchise executives provide 3 key customer insights.
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