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My Take: Unhappy in Their Own Way
Gary Lemke, Chief Customer Advocate   (January 25, 2012)
 
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The first sentence in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina reads, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
 
Denis Pombriant of Beagle Research recently wrote to me with a CRM version of Tolstoy's opener: Happy customers are all alike, unhappy ones are each unhappy for their own reasons.
 
Tolstoy's statement is certainly worth pondering as one delves into family matters. Does Denis' statement have the same thought provoking mass in the world of CRM?
 
If so, what does it say about how an organization creates happy customers? And what does it say about service recovery strategies? I often see organizations handle service recovery the same way for all unhappy customers - discounting and freebies. And I think they are giving too much away to avoid understanding the cause of each unhappy customer. Do you agree?
 
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