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...

7 Steps to Service Recovery

By Nancy Friedman, Telephone Doctor Almost anyone who’s been in a customer service position has had the opportunity of running into either an irate call or person…or a situation that, shall we say, is not pleasant. And even though it may not even be our fault,...

7 Steps to Satisfied Customers

By Nancy Friedman, the Telephone Doctor Every business has one thing in common. Phone calls. Inbound or outbound…service or sales. How these phones are answered and handled is critical. New software and hardware is constantly coming into 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...

Five Ways to Sabotage Your Business

By Nancy Friedman, Telephone Doctor  Believe it or not, there are many, many ways to sabotage your business. And, chances are, your staff is doing some of these now, without your even knowing it. And worse yet, you’ve probably even heard some of this yourself (ouch!)....