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...

Mystery Shopping Success Stories

Most retailers agree that customer retention is the key to improving share of market. Most also agree that quality customer service is the key to customer retention. It’s in how to measure and improve customer service that opinions differ; “the...