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Here are the citations for facts, figures, and stories included in this course:


CTS Citation

All references to the 7 Service Triggers research or "our own research" refer to this study:

Toporek, Adam. Customer Service Triggers Study. CTS Service Solutions. Conducted September 4, 2016.
All references to the book Be Your Customer's Hero refer to:

Adam Toporek, Be Your Customer's Hero: Real-World Tips for the Service Front Lines (AMACOM, 2015).


Module 2: Lesson 3
Wal-Mart greeters. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/after-hiatus-wal-mart-welcomes-back-its-greeters-n568761

Module 3: Lesson 1
Airplane sleep story -- Scott Stump, “‘Get Me off This Plane’: Man Locked in Dark Cabin in Worst Layover Ever,” CNBC, December 9, 2013, http://www.cnbc .com/id/101257219. Accessed September 23, 2014.

Module 4: Lesson 1
96% having high effort experiences -- Video refers to the book The Effortless Experience (same data can be found here). Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick Delisi, “It Doesn’t Pay to Delight a Customer,” http://www.executiveboard.com/exbd/sales-service/effortless-experience/about/index.page?, CEB. Accessed September 23, 2014.

Module 6: Lesson 1
Speaking with multiple agents -- ClickFox, Customer Tipping Point Survey Results, http://web.clickfox.com/rs/clickfox/images/cf-survey-results-customer-tipping- point-2010vs2011.pdf. Downloaded September 23, 2014.

Module 7: Lesson 1
Bank consolidation -- Hester Peirce and Robert Greene, “The Decline of US Small Banks (2000–2013),” Mercatus Center, George Washington University, February 24, 2014, http://mercatus.org/publication/decline-us-smallbanks-2000-2013. Accessed September 23, 2014.

Mobile carrier consolidation -- Jon Metzler, “6 Years After the iPhone Launched, Just 4 Big Carriers Are Left Standing,” VentureBeat, July 8, 2013, http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/08/iphone-carrier-consolidation/. Accessed September 23, 2014.