Who IS Your Store

An element of almost every retailer’s marketing strategy today is devoted to convincing potential customers that their stores offer more friendly, efficient and personalized service than its competitors. But do your customer contact personnel really live up to...

Monitor Employee Performance and Behavior

Mystery Shopping Is One Proven Way To Know For Sure Recently, I was running low on dog food so I called the local hardware store and asked how late they’d be open. The employee who answered the phone told me that the store was closing in the next few minutes,...

Reward Employees with Service Incentives

“Reward, whether in the coin of the realm or the psyche of the recipient, is critical to a service improvement program.” Ron Zemke, Service America In our experience, the nature of the reward is not critical. The key is to “catch employees in the act...