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We Appreciate Your Business. Please Stay on the Line.

Harvard Business Review

If a call center is busy, don''t tell customers the hold time is five minutes and then, after four minutes (as higher-priority customers enter the queue), revise that to 10 minutes. FAQs are great, but customers still need to talk to your people. Explain why an action is being taken, and be trustworthy.

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The Customer Support Hierarchy of Needs

Harvard Business Review

If you looked at how different organizations handled their customer support, the maturity of their operations, and the problems they were trying to solve, companies fall into 4 distinct strata — from a state of chaos, all the way up to the point where their support is perfectly aligned with their business goals.