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Jodi Beuder

Jodi Beuder
We help organizations create a positive connection between customers and brands. We promote synergy through integration as it builds on the decades of collective history of renowned expertise. MHI Global is your comprehensive source for customer-management excellence solutions to compete in today's ever-changing, customer-centric environment.

3 C’s of Accurate Documentation

As front­lin­ers in cus­tomer sup­port and/or after-sales ser­vice, we endeavor to equip call cen­ter agents with as much knowl­edge and com­pe­tence as pos­si­ble for...

How to be the Best Manager, Trainer and Coach to Your Employees: Tips from

Well, maybe not directly from Whoopi Gold­berg, but from her char­ac­ter Sis­ter Mary Clarence in the film "Sis­ter Act." I recently saw this movie...

Looking at the “C” in FCR

Read­ing up on call cen­ter met­rics, you will most likely encounter the acronym FCR, which stands for First Call Res­o­lu­tion. FCR scores track if...

PRINTOUT: Top 10 Customer Service Skills – Keep a Copy at Your Desk

If you start your career as a cus­tomer ser­vice rep­re­sen­ta­tive (CSR), you are given some basic train­ing from your man­ager to get you acquainted...

Fun Game to Learn Cross-Selling in Customer Service

When teach­ing your inside sales team how to cross-sell, many tech­niques are required for a smooth and suc­cess­ful trans­ac­tion. First, it's impor­tant for...

Four Tips for Coaching Difficult Employees

In Part of any staff manager's job is to work on their employee's job suc­cess. When the employee is resis­tant to train­ing or change,...

How to Build a Customer Service Brand

Accord­ing to cus­tomer ser­vice guru and blog­ger Seth Godin, "A brand is the set of expec­ta­tions, mem­o­ries, sto­ries and rela­tion­ships that, taken together, account...

The Service Profit Chain: How to Get From High Quality Support Services to Profit and Growth

Accord­ing to the Har­vard Busi­ness Review, CEOs "under­stand that in the new eco­nom­ics of ser­vice, front­line work­ers and cus­tomers need to be the cen­ter...

The Top 5 Ways to Deal with Upset Customers

Work­ing in call cen­ters and the field of cus­tomer ser­vice means that inevitably, you and your team will deal with upset cus­tomers. The upset-customer...

Maximize Your Company’s Cold Calling Training with these Dos and Don’ts

Cold call­ing is a hard art to mas­ter, and when con­duct­ing cold call­ing train­ing for your team, the instruct­ing part can be just as...

How Internal Metrics can Help You Decrease Turnover Rates

In the world of call cen­ters, met­rics are king. Res­o­lu­tion time, first call res­o­lu­tion, CSAT scores, and aver­age call dura­tion, to name a few,...

Is Your Sales Team Getting the Most out of Your Sales Coaching?

A col­league of mine from Miller Heiman sur­veyed a num­ber of sales man­agers by ask­ing how much true coach­ing they have done in the...

What’s Apple’s Secret for their Legendary IT Customer Service Training?

Apple is a com­pany known for, among other things, atten­tion to details. Steve Jobs had a rep­u­ta­tion for being uncom­pro­mis­ingly par­tic­u­lar about every part,...

When Things Go Wrong, Don’t Forget the Core Principles of Customer Care

Recently, I had an expe­ri­ence whereby the prin­ci­ples of cus­tomer care sorely failed, and it reminded me that even when logis­tics break down, sup­plies...

Is Your Customer Loyalty Program Following the Trend?

Amer­i­can Express per­formed a sur­vey, where results dis­cov­ered "seven in ten Amer­i­cans (70%) are will­ing to spend an aver­age of 13% more with com­pa­nies...

Celebrate Customer Loyalty Month: Top 5 Customer Loyalty Tips

If you are in the busi­ness of cus­tomer ser­vice and cus­tomer sup­port – take note: It's Cus­tomer Loy­alty Month. What does this mean? Well,...

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