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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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What do the best customer experience brands do differently?
  • John DiJulius
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Customer service mistakes are a chance for you to save the day--and create a customer for life.
  • John Tschohl
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4 tips on providing consumers with the convenience and choices they want.
  • Charles Bonfiglio
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Customer loyalty may be your most important metric of success.
  • Chad Storlie
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Tips and tactics for optimizing the customer experience and the bottom line.
  • Chad Storlie
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How smartphone addiction is harming our people skills and creativity.
  • John DiJulius
  • 7,094 Reads 21 Shares
Are you training your front-line employees to deliver world-class customer service?
  • John DiJulius
  • 6,524 Reads 38 Shares
Can a company's customer service go from bad to great?
  • John DiJulius
  • 4,324 Reads 9 Shares
How 3 positive guest experiences create loyal customers at Stoner's Pizza Joint
  • Nick Bergelt
  • 4,665 Reads 13 Shares
Can your brand's front-line customer service go from bad to great?
  • John DiJulius
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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.
  • John DiJulius
  • 7,842 Reads 23 Shares
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Branding is no longer about building perception in your customer's mind. In the age of smartphones and social media, customer experience is the new branding.
  • John DiJulius
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How 7 franchisees are using their loyalty programs to attract and retain customers.
  • Sara Wykes
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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.
  • John DiJulius
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How many times have you heard, "A smile is free. It costs absolutely nothing to give but can mean the world to the person who receives it?"
  • John DiJulius
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To be a professional disruptor, you must be willing to take risks. This means you must be willing to fail.
  • John DiJulius
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Why did the retail industry have a dismal 2017 despite high consumer confidence, historically low unemployment, and a growing U.S. economy? Typically these are the perfect conditions for retailers.
  • John DiJulius
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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.
  • John DiJulius
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Dealing with customer complaints that make it to senior executives is a critically important strategy.
  • John DiJulius
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These five "big picture" customer service lessons, observations, and accompanying advice may not qualify as future deathbed regrets for many CEOs, but they should.
  • John DiJulius
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Customer service guru John DiJulius draws customer service lessons from United Airlines' latest gaffe.
  • John DiJulius
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Learn how to teach your Millennial employees the skills of customer service - and improve everyone's' experience!
  • Katie Mares
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Customer service guru John DiJulius highlights his readers' Top 10 favorite articles from last year.
  • John DiJulius
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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.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • 3,803 Reads
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.
  • John DiJulius
  • 3,796 Reads 2 Shares
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.
  • John Tschohl
  • 6,383 Reads
6 things that make a brand indispensable - and its customers loyal. How many of these boxes can you check for your brand?
  • John DiJulius
  • 4,040 Reads 22 Shares
Customer service excellence, the key to attracting and retaining customers, begins at the top. Is your brand's leadership team on board?
  • John DiJulius
  • 3,547 Reads
Over the past several years, one of the most often-discussed topics continues to be: Who is in charge of your brand's customer?
  • John DiJulius
  • 4,454 Reads
Customer service expert John Tschohl offers 6 customer service principles that empower employees and build better businesses.
  • Multi-Unit Franchisee
  • 23,526 Reads 1 Shares
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