Customer Support

Given what we do for a living here at Customer Thermometer, we’ve always known that our customer support needs to be top notch. Our customer service approach comes very much from the heart. We genuinely support our customers as we would like to be supported. No gimmicks or giveaways, but genuinely excellent service that solves problems and takes pain away.

The result is our Ministry of Magic – our name for our customer support department. Every customer email is written and then reviewed for that extra 10% of magic, help or advice to ensure that we knock it out of the park. Every customer request or suggestion is shared, investigated for what can be learned and genuinely appreciated. In this section of our blog, you’ll find amongst other great content, our own internal customer support handbook – Good Magician, Bad Magician – a really popular download.

25 Inspirational Ideas For Improving Customer Service

Looking for that spark of inspiration to ignite customer service success? Look no further. We have bucket loads of great ideas to improve customer service. Dive in! 5 books with good ideas for improving customer service Lou Downe’s book,…
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10 Great Customer Service Skills You Need To Know

Optimizing the quality of your customer service is critical to success. That means building and nurturing great customer service skills. Customer service skills remain vital even as automation and self-service continues to rise. In fact,…
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On-Brand Customer Feedback Survey Icon Ideas Your Customers Will Love

Businesses strive to deliver a great customer experience that’s unique to their brand. That means bringing the brand into every customer touchpoint – including when collecting customer feedback. Even here, there are cool things you can do…
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5 Inspiring TED Talks to Drive Customer Success

TED stands for ‘technology, entertainment, design’, which covers a hell of a lot. TED Talks are each roughly 12–18 minutes of expert insight and inspiration.  We love all TED Talks, and we’re not alone. Today’s back catalogue of…
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5 Actionable Steps to Achieving Customer Excellence

Great customer service is widely recognized as one of the key customer experience factors influencing brand loyalty. But customer excellence must also be acknowledged as having a major influence. Customer excellence is always doing and being…
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20 Brilliant Customer Feedback Quotes

Looking for new and useful customer feedback quotes for your next presentation or blog post? Customer feedback is taking centre stage. Customers have more ways than ever of getting in touch with the businesses that serve them. From social…
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Quick Survey Ideas and Examples to Engage Customers

Sometimes you just want to send a quick survey to your customers, staff or partners. You might want to get a snapshot of how people feel about your product or service, super fast. Or you might want to ask people something regularly, so…
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10 Email Survey Subject Lines For Great Response Rates

People are managing ever-increasing volumes of daily email messages. When they triage their unopened emails they look at two things: who the emails are from and the email subject lines. If you are looking for customer feedback, survey subject…
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7 Customer Service KPIs You Need to Track

Tracking the right customer service KPIs is vital. But modern helpdesk software suites are often guilty of information overload. Among the bewildering morass of data enabling you to track a multitude of customer service metrics, which should…
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Asking for feedback by email

Do you need to create a great feedback email? Are you looking to change the way you get responses from emails you send regularly? Do you need to gather feedback from a large number of customers and staff in a simple and quick way or maybe you…
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How To Get Customer Feedback From The Emails You Are Already Sending

“The reports of email’s demise have been greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain might have said. Email is the big daddy of business communications. More and more are sent every year despite repeated predictions to the contrary. Whatever gets…
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How to respond to negative feedback

You can’t please all the people all the time. Negative feedback is a fact of life, even for businesses that provide great CX. Sadly, it can take its toll on customer-facing staff and even drain your resources disproportionately. Take social…