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Turning discontent into loyalty through great customer service

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 23 May 2018
  • 14:23 - 14:23
  • Duration: 13 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Jun 2018
  • Location: Customer Solutions Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

Complaints and bad debt have long been sources of poor publicity and lost revenue for utilities. And as business challenges, they are shrouded in negativity.

But a change of perspective may be timely. Some complaints will always be a given – even in a high performing business – but handled well and in a culture which supports learning, they could be turned into opportunities for competitive development and outperformance.

Likewise, in a market where customer engagement is key and retention hard-won, customers struggling with bad debt could be transformed from red blotches on the balance sheet into opportunities for capturing loyalty, raising employee morale and improving brand.

Keywords:
  • GDPR
  • climate change
  • cloud migration
  • cyber defence
  • data governance
  • decarbonisation
  • electric vehicle
  • energy
  • energy crisis
  • energy sector
  • fuel bank
  • npower
  • power consumption
  • priority services
  • renewable
  • smart meter
  • smart meter data
  • water sector

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Power

Power

Speaker

  • Ben Simms

    Ben Simms

    Freshworks, Energy industry specialist

    Ben is a Sales Manager at Freshdesk, the leading cloud-based customer support software from Google-backed SaaS provider, Freshworks. Ben owns the Energy vertical and is responsible for building and maintaining relationships in this space. He is currently working with a number of UK based Energy suppliers, helping them improve their customer support through effective email management, cross-department collaboration and industry compliant reporting. Outside of work Ben is a keen rugby player.
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