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September 11, 2013 by Ava Lucanus

Customer service beats price in Asia-Pacific markets: survey

New research into Asia-Pacific consumers’ feelings towards customer service has painted a common picture of poor customer service, frustrated consumers with low service expectations, an increased rate of sharing positive or negative experiences online to a wider audience, and a willingness to place a greater value on customer service than price. The study conducted by Ipsos and commissioned by Verint Systems, an enterprise intelligence solutions … [Read more...]

August 26, 2013 by Ava Lucanus

How To Create An Extraordinary Customer Experience

A startling national Australian study has revealed that the perceived service standards of the business owners and managers vs the experience that the customers receive can be very different indeed. In fact it appears there is a huge gap! The studies released by consumer commentator Barry Urquhart, show 82% of business owner and manager respondents stating that the service offered by their businesses was either “good”, “very good” or … [Read more...]

June 20, 2013 by Ava Lucanus

How good is this for outstanding customer service?

Outstanding customer service is not a regular occurrence, but when it is shown it blows its competition out of the water. I received this message the other day, and straight away was astounded at how nice it was for Medibank to offer such a service, and by making it so easy for their customers to receive their Statement of Benefits. Medibank do not need to offer this service, however they know that by doing so they are going beyond their … [Read more...]

June 5, 2013 by Ava Lucanus

Quote of the week : Walt Disney

Walt Disney's quote here really takes business back to it's core purpose. To become a successful business, you need to go that extra mile to exceed expectations of your customers. By doing so, your customers will repay you by bringing their friends. … [Read more...]

May 20, 2013 by Ava Lucanus

Quote of the week – That little ''Extra''

I always relate back to this quote when I talk about service. Customers are much more likely to talk about your business, when they have received that little ''extra''. Is YOUR business giving that little ''extra'' to your customers? … [Read more...]

Confidence Building Workshops

Ava Lucanus from Edge Communication has been engaged by our firm to conduct communication workshops on numerous occasions. As a successful and local IT business, Leap Consulting has found her wealth of knowledge and training invaluable. Her professional manner and proven techniques have enabled our staff to not only manage all types of customers but provide confidence in dealing with them. Her highly skilled qualifications help to deliver information in an interesting, relevant and easy to understand manner. She has a very likeable and trustworthy nature and her interactional workshop ideas have been implemented within our organisation with great success”.

Practical and Professional

Ava displayed both an immediate rapport with our staff and an intimate knowledge of her subject. Ava also listened carefully and assisted the staff in relating to the issues being discussed in a very practical and professional manner.

Ava is a very natural and engaging speaker

Ava is a very natural and engaging speaker, who I noticed a few years ago and have experienced many times in different settings since. Her language is very clear and pragmatic and she communicates on the level of her audience, to make it most relevant to them. We have engaged Ava as a communication expert twice in the past 2 years to train our staff in communication skills and we have always been impressed with her abilities as a speaker and trainer. I highly recommend her.

Three years later we are still actively implementing the skills Ava taught us

Edge Communication presented a customer service program for our team in a series of workshops, mystery calls and follow up sessions designed for our IT Help Desk. Ava delivered the program in a very professional, engaging manner and our team took all of the new strategies back into the workplace. Three years later we are still actively implementing the skills Ava taught us and are successfully inducting all our new staff using Ava’s Telephone Procedures manual. Our staff have learnt the confidence and skills to not only diffuse our clients’ frustration when experiencing IT issues, but to achieve a quicker resolution, saving time and increasing productivity. It has been a delight working with Ava and I can’t recommend her enough. She really did help turn around my ragband team of Service Desk at the time into a very well oiled and communicative team. I have no hesitation in recommending Edge Communication if you want to improve your customer experience.

Engaging and Captivating

Ava presented two professional development workshops, the aim being to create an awareness of the importance of aligning customer experience with our brand promise. Ava did a wonderful job of achieving this aim and enabling our professional staff to identify how they can ensure their service delivery aligns our client’s experience with our firms values and our promise of “great people, great results.” Her seminar was engaging and captivated the attendees to understand better the customer journey, the use of different types of “language” and the importance of a customer service system. We all thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from her knowledge and have taken on board many of her ideas to improve our client service approach. Ava is an extremely professional and experienced communications consultant. She uses humour, interactive techniques and factual information to ensure she gets her message across to a diverse group of people. I would not hesitate to recommend Ava.

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