The customer of the future will certainly be more demanding and potentially difficult to serve successfully, so any action taken must offer distinct benefits to the customer as well as to the business if they are to work. To this extent, there are five actions which businesses should strongly consider when planning their customer contact strategy:

• Cut the fat on the call
• React quickly and appropriately
• Be proactive
• Remove physical boundaries
• Polarise customer service

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