The Customer Experience – What is it?

by Nancy Friedman, The Telephone Doctor The other day, someone asked me, “What’s Customer Experience, Nancy?” They had not heard the expression yet. And as I went on to explain, I realized it’s not just one item, it’s many things. How can...

Essential Telephone Skills

By Nancy Friedman, The Telephone Doctor  Recently a Telephone Doctor client said to me, “Nancy, congratulations. Some people take a simple idea and complicate it; you have taken a simple idea and kept it simple.” We don’t believe you should scratch your...

10 Customer Service Skills &Techniques

By Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor                  Be a DOUBLE CHECKER. Learn to use those words. Everyone loves it when you double check something for them. Even if you’re pretty sure the item is out of stock or the...

Are You Guilty?

By Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor     What unprofessional behavior irritates you the most when, as a consumer, you are interacting with another company? At Telephone Doctor we hear a lot of what bothers the public. It’s important to know that customer service...