Dealing with Customer Complaints


Recent Dealing with Customer Complaints Articles

6 Tools for Monitoring Your Reputation

Services like Trackur, Viralheat, and Radian6 keep companies abreast of customer complaints.  Read more

How to Coach Employees

Larry O'Toole of Gentle Giant Moving Company talks about how to give employees feedback.  Read more

How to Handle Customer Complaints

With the Internet as the disgruntled customer's oyster, there are new rules for responding to rants and customer complaints.  Read more

When Customer Advice Goes Wrong

Yelp unveils major product changes to address extortion allegations . A number of small business have Read more

How to Lose Customers and Alienate People

A cinema-chain employee responds with a rude e-mail to a customer complaint, and a Facebook boycott is born.  Read more

Coping With Fury at a Price Hike

When eMusic raised prices, customers grumbled and threatened to leave. Was it too late to go back?  Read more

Editor's Letter: The New Power of Customers

Thanks to online-review sites like Yelp, the customer is more powerful than ever.  Read more

Customer Service Tips from the Inc. 5000 Conference 

Advice on how to build customer loyalty from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (pictured), JetBlue founder David Neeleman, and other successful CEOs at the 2009 Inc. 500...  Watch video

Business Owners Warm Up to Online Reviews

Small-business owners are more active than consumers on sites such as Yelp, according to a recent survey.  Read more

You're Fired: Getting Rid of Bad Customers

How to deal with difficult customers  Read more

How Businesses Can Respond to Criticism on Yelp

Three business owners give their views on when it makes sense to respond to critics posting negative reviews on Yelp  Read more

Tell Us What You Really Think 

Have you ever wanted to read your customers' minds? Thanks to the Web, it's getting easier. Senior editor Bobbie Gossage explains.   Watch video

Tell Us What You Really Think

Collecting customer feedback.  Read more

What To Do When Your Customers Yelp -- Part One

What are your customers saying about you online? If you're not paying attention, your reputation could be suffering.  Read more

Patricia Seybold on Setting Up an Online Forum

Technology expert Patricia Seybold on soliciting customer feedback online through an online forum  Read more

Making Amends

Apologizing is part of doing business. But do it wrong, and you'll really be sorry.  Read more

Understanding How Your Customers Think

John Zogby on how business owners can use polling to better understand their customers.  Read more

Firing Customers

The idea of firing customers might sound like a sacrilege. But when they abuse your employees, refuse to pay their bills, and generally take advantage of you...  Read more

Address Quality Issues on a Case-by-Case Basis

Fully understand the reason for product returns and take the appropriate steps to address it.  Read more

Leave No Stone Unturned

How a manufacturer got serious about customer complaints, devising a detailed form and database system to get to the root of each problem.  Read more

The Rigorous Customer-Complaint Form

Use this form for tracking and assessing customer complaints and unearthing their root causes.  Read more

How to Provide Customer Self-Service Online

If you plan to process orders and transactions on your small business's website, then you had better be prepared to field customer service questions onlineâ€...  Read more