Use mystery shopping to improve employee performance

One way to ensure that your employees are interacting with customers the way you want them to be is to start a mystery shopping program to gain the customer’s perspective. This article by Tom Brown states that mystery shopping can free you, the company owner, from...

Shopping Audits Measure Employee Effectiveness

Shopping audits can help you determine the effectiveness of your internal marketing strategies so that you may upgrade them, thereby enhancing your image, your service and your market share.  You will, in effect, be minimizing human “turnoffs” and thereby keeping the...

THE LIFETIME VALUE OF GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE

There is a Target and a Walmart in my neighborhood. Prices are pretty similar – Walmart is probably cheaper. Why then, do I continuously find myself at Target for various and sundry items? In short, Target “gets” the concept of customer service. Whenever I need to...