Kevin Stirtz
Welcome to the world of Amazing Service! I am Kevin Stirtz and this blog is my creation. Â It’s here to help you improve customer service for yourself, your team and your entire organization.
I have written over 600 customer service blog posts, articles, ebooks and other resources and published them here, for you to use. Drop me a note if you have a question,  comment or suggestion. I’d love to hear from you!.
Create and deliver great customer service training in less time and for less money
The Customer Service Training Tool Kit contains 40 activities designed to make customer service training more fun, engaging, and behavior-changing for customer service reps. Trainers can use group activities, role plays, questionnaires, and other exercises “as is” in 30-60 minute training modules or combine them to create longer training programs.
The book is full of reproducible participant handouts, worksheets, questionnaires, and overhead masters to make the trainer’s job easy. Trainers who, as part of their customer training program, want to give to each participant a brief, motivational handbook reinforcing many of the ideas behind the training activities can obtain copies of the authors’ accompanying book, Super service, The Customer Service Training Tool Kit makes it easy for a trainer to design and deliver great customer service training at a fraction of the time it would take to develop a program from scratch.
Many companies are investing more to improve their  customer feedback management systems. A critical part of making customer feedback work better is to train your customer facing employees so they can be an effective part of your overall customer loyalty process. That’s where this book and it’s tips and tactics can help.
This book has 300 pages packed full of tools, tips and road-tested activities to help you plan and conduct high-impact customer service training. No wonder it’s received multiple five-star reviews on Amazon.
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Here’s a quick update on two resources to help improve customer service and retention.
First, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss were kind enough to send me a copy of their latest book: UNCOMMON SERVICE. In it they discuss a new model organizations can use to improve customer service and improve loyalty.
I will be reading and reviewing this book in the next few weeks so stop by soon to catch that post. In the meantime you can learn more at their website: Uncommon Service.
The second resource you should look at is a customer service blog called: Service Untitled.
I like this blog because it covers a wide range of topics on how to improve customer service and increase customer loyalty. Some examples:
Dealing with Angry Customers Hiring & Training Being Proactive Follow Up
And much more than I can list here. Plus, they have an inside peek into Zappo’sv via a series of interviews with top executives, starting with Tony Hsieh. More on that here.
Thanks for stopping by. If you have any customer service training or improvement resources you’d like to share, please post them in the comments below or email me using the CONTACT FORM.
In March, the Multi-Channel Virtual Contact Center Conference will be held. As a virtual conference it will enable people from all over the world to participate without incurring travel costs or time. The conference, presented by CRMXchange, Yankee Group and Vanguard Communications, will focus largely on best practices in improving customer loyalty as well as customer retention.
From the conference organizers:
“The virtual conference allows contact center teams to participate in expert-led, live workshops without incurring travel costs or time out of the office. And, if the times and dates are not convenient for all those who wish to attend, all conference workshops will be available online to registrants for 14 days following the event.”
Don Van Doren, prinicpal of Unicomm Consulting and Vanguard Communications, will deliver the keynote called: “Meeting the Multi-Channel Customer on His Terms”.
Some topics to be covered in the conference include using social media, how to collaborate in customer engagement, why you should care about mobile and creating a better self-service customer experience.
Learn more about this customer service conference.
September 12, 2011
None of us are perfect. Neither is any business. The good news is most customers don’t expect the people they do business with to be perfect. But as customers we do expect businesses to fix things when they go wrong. One of my favorite coffee places provides a current example. It was a beautiful late [...]
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