A customer’s first contact with an organization is often by telephone. That's why it's helpful to periodically evaluate how your organization receives and manages phone contact and identify opportunities to improve the quality and accuracy of communications.
1. Have people your customers can understand.
2. Voice recognition programs are like a trip to Hell.
3. Playing the same message over and over and over is worse than silence.
4. Don't use my name every third word - it's annoying.
5. Don't suggest in your stupid recording that I go to your stupid website.
6. Make it easy for me to find the right number.
7. Train your people!!
8. If your desperate customers have to get help from other desperate customers, you really suck.
9. Find a way to not ask customers for the same information over and over and over.
10. Hire less bitter people.
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