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Customer Education Increases Trust
Service companies shouldn’t worry about teaching their customers too much.
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The Quality Effect on Word of Mouth
Consumer dissatisfaction can be far more potent than satisfaction.
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How to Prevent Your Customers From Failing
As companies use self-service technologies, responsibility for service quality shifts to customers.
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Satisfaction Begins at Home
To find out how well you are serving your customers, ask your employees.
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The Risks of Customer Intimacy
Too much familiarity with customers can backfire, but engaging in multisided conversations can manage the risks.
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The Great Expectations Effect
Asking customers about their wants increases the probability that they will be dissatisfied.
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Managing Corrosive Customers
Strategies for mitigating the negative effects of nasty on-the-job encounters.
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Creating a Superior Customer-Relating Capability
Companies with the best connections to their customers focus on the people and businesses that buy from them.
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New Views on Digital CRM
Managers’ opinions vary about the goals and value of Internet marketing.
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The Real Value of Customer Loyalty
Customer-lifetime value is more than a metric; it’s a way of thinking and of doing business.