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The Difference Between Extraordinary Adoption and Failure

In today’s world of cloud technology and apps, changing or upgrading systems has never been easier.  Whether you are changing from on-premise to cloud solution or providing your customers with a native app for their mobile device, much of the change is a simple as pointing your data to a new end point.  So why […]

Filed Under: Business Process Management, Change Management, Customer Service, Uncategorized Tagged With: change management, customer experience, customer service, Leadership

Leaders: You Are Doing Empowerment All Wrong

Every management book will tell you that you need to empower your associates.  In many ways, it does make perfect sense; the more your associates can do the right thing for customers on their own, everyone wins. Customers get their issue resolved or the product they want with limited hassle. Your associates are more fulfilled […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Leadership, Organizational Structure, People Tagged With: associate, customer experience, customer experience management, customer service, Leadership, people

The 6 Common Traits of the Greatest Customer Experience Providers

In the first part of this post, Defining a Great Customer Experience – Starting at the Top, we talked about the difficulties in defining a great customer experience, how its more than just “Delivery > Expectations”, and how a great experience starts at the top of the companies funnel.  The expectations provided during the Awareness, […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Customer Success, Leadership, Uncategorized Tagged With: Community Management, customer experience, customer experience management, customer satisfaction, customer service, customer success, Leadership, marketing

Net Promoter Scoring is Asking the Wrong Question

By michaelpace on February 4, 2014 I’m not a huge fan of Net Promoter Scoring (NPS). Nope. I am sure this sounds like blasphemy from a Customer Service professional. Too bad. I would not recommend a family member, friend, or colleague to blindly use Net Promoter Scoring to understand or forecast the retention of their […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Leadership, Uncategorized Tagged With: customer experience, customer service, Leadership, Net Promoter Score, NPS, Trust

Customer Service Fortune Cookies for 2014 and Beyond

By michaelpace on December 16, 2013 Complete, wild guess predictions and thoughts by my cousin Pacefucious about the trends in Customer Service for 2014. Note: The practice of adding “in bed” may or may not work with the following fortunes. Pacefucious say: Successful Customer Service leaders will be Customer Success Leaders Even now, Customer Success […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Leadership, People, posts, Social Media, Uncategorized Tagged With: Big Data, Community, Community Management, customer experience, customer service, customer success, fortune, fortune cookie, Leadership, Net Promoter Score, NPS, social business, Social Media

The Art and Science of Customer Service Recovery

By michaelpace on November 5, 2013 “Customers do not expect you to be perfect.  They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong” – Doug Porter while SVP at British Airways Remember that time a company did not meet your expectations, or something broke, or you received sub-par customer service, or you were […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Leadership, Uncategorized Tagged With: Business Process Management, customer experience, customer service, empowerment, Leadership, operations, service, Service Recovery

How to Get Promoted – for Managers and Reports

By michaelpace on April 2, 2013 Want to make your manager uncomfortable?  Try one of these below out on them. “When am I going to get promoted?”  “I’ve been in this position for two years, I should have been promoted by now.”  “Why does <insert first and last name here> get promoted, and I get […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Organizational Structure, People, Uncategorized Tagged With: competencies, HR, Human Resources, influence, job specific skills, Leadership, people, promotion, results

Community Manager: Help Yourself

By michaelpace on March 14, 2013 As Tom Jones says, “We are always told repeatedly The very best in life is free And if you want to prove it’s true Baby I’m telling you This is what you should do Just help yourself … ” Community Management is a new and exponentially growing career field.  […]

Filed Under: Community, Leadership, Social Media, Social Organization, Uncategorized Tagged With: Community, Community Management, Leadership, Rachel Happe, social business, Social Organization, The Community Roundtable

The Best Medicine for Customer Success – Prescription

By michaelpace on February 26, 2013 Take two of these every 4 hours for 5 days Go home and rest Drink plenty of fluids Make some chicken soup Take ibuprofen to reduce fever Gargle salt water for a sore throat Steam to loosen congestion Etc… We’ve all been there.  There is something wrong with our […]

Filed Under: Business Process Management, Customer Service, Leadership, Organizational Structure, People, Uncategorized Tagged With: behavioral scoring, BPM, Business Process Management, customer experience, customer service, customer success, Leadership, marketing, Net Promoter Score, NPS

Everyone can be a Community Manager & Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day

By michaelpace on January 28, 2013 If you are a “registered” or “titled” Community Manager, have a great Community Manager Appreciation Day – whether others folks in your company know it, we all love and appreciate your work.  Throughout the day, I have seen amazing content being produced and curated by a number of social […]

Filed Under: Business Process Management, Community, Leadership, Organizational Structure, Social Media, Social Organization, Uncategorized Tagged With: CMAD, Community, Community Management, Community Management Appreciation Day, empowerment, Leadership, marketing, social business, Social Media, Social Organization

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