Customer Service Expert

Ten Compelling Reasons to Deliver an Amazing Customer Service Experience

I love lists, especially when it comes to learning. The list below was the result of a quick brainstorming session about the advantages of delivering a great customer service experience.  I came up with many more, but wanted to create the “Top Ten List” for you.

1. Amazing customer service builds credibility, trust and confidence, which can lead to customer loyalty.
2. Amazing customer service can help the marketing and sales budget.  It costs less to keep existing customers than it does to create new ones.
3. Delivering amazing customer service creates a buzz, word-of-mouth marketing and referrals, again helping the marketing budget.
4. Delivering amazing customer service can lead to existing customers buying more.
5. Customer service saves money.  When you do it right the first time, you don’t have to fix it the next time.
6. Customer service can give your company an advantage over competitors.
7. Amazing customer service can make price less relevant.
8. Customer service focused companies are usually employee focused companies, thereby creating a better place to work.  That means lower turnover, which could mean savings in hiring, training and more.
9. Customer service superstar companies are usually more profitable than the ones that aren’t.
10. Customer service helps get and keep customers… because without customers, you don’t have a business.

After compiling this list, I sent it to the subscribers of my newsletter (The Shepard Letter). I asked them to come up with more reasons to deliver an amazing customer experience.  So here are…

Ten MORE Reasons to Deliver an Amazing Customer Service Experience

1. Do it because it is the right thing to do! We like our clients and do this because we want to help them, not just because we want to make a profit.  If we give good customer service, the profit will take care of itself. -- Fran Curotto of Kreismann-Bayer Insurance Agency
2. Amazing Customer Service requires a helpful attitude which spills over to co-workers, making the work environment a positive, friendly one. -- Rhoda Snader of QCCI
3. Amazing customer service provides an excellent way to focus on what your customers believe your unique sales position is. -- Kevin Baum
4. Amazing customer service allows a better communication with your customers to get feedback and improve products and services, therefore protecting future growth. --  Kevin Baum (He submitted two!)
5. A dissatisfied customer, who feels that you made things right, will be one of the most powerful customer evangelists you could have. They will be telling their friends, family, and associates of how you fixed their problem when they were expecting the worst possible outcome.  In contrast, a dissatisfied customer will spend at least as much effort to discredit your company. -- Perry Jarlsberg, Superior Services Solutions, Inc.
6. Amazing customer service means taking ownership of a service issue and seeing the issue through to resolution.  This creates a continuity of service for the client that builds confidence, corporate knowledge and responsibility for the client service representative. -- Steve Silver, Royal Banks of Missouri
7. Great customer service leads to profitable teaming arrangements.  For example, business partners want to be on your team when pursuing a project or new customer. -- Ted Guhr, Tarlton Corporation
8. Great customer service creates an environment for employees to be proud of their work, thereby resulting in employee retention. -- Ted Guhr, Tarlton Corporation (Ted also submitted two!)
9. Customer service is important for our internal customers (coworkers) as well as our external customers. -- Donna M. Willett, Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company
10. Amazing Customer Service allows sales people to have a greater advantage of selling against the competition. --  Dale Montross