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Secret to Amazing Customer Service: Be Better than Average

Your secret weapon is customer service.  Wait!  It’s not a secret anymore.  Just about every company I do business with claims they deliver customer service.  My experience as I look back over just the last year is that for many … Continue reading

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Creative Problem Solving Can Lead to Amazing Customer Service

The story you’re about to read is a five-star, scale of one to ten – give them an eleven – amazing customer service story. First, some background. It’s obvious we’re in a tough economy, but somehow there are businesses that … Continue reading

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How to Receive Customer Service

So, you want great customer service?  You want to be treated with respect.  You want your complaint resolved.  You just want what is right – a good customer service experience. For this short article let’s take a different approach.  Rather … Continue reading

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How Can You Achieve Customer Loyalty

Customer loyalty may not be what you think it is.  Most people or companies claim to have great customer service and customer satisfaction scores, which they think leads to loyalty.  However, these scores may be misunderstood.

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Technology and Social Media Combine to Enhance the Customer Experience

Most people think that the use of Twitter and Facebook for customer service is about monitoring the comments that customers make about a company’s products.  If there are negative comments posted, the company responds.  To take it a step further, … Continue reading

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Product Failure Leads to Lack of Confidence, Leading to Customer Defection

Last week was a terrible week for people using the BlackBerry (by RIM) handheld smart phones.  The company had an “outage” and millions of customers could not access their email for as long as three days.  I started thinking about … Continue reading

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Ten Ideas to Help You Obtain Customer Loyalty

What is customer loyalty? I asked a number of business people the simple question, “What is customer loyalty?”  The answers were mostly similar.  Most agree that customer loyalty means the customer will come back, again and again. However, what customer … Continue reading

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Customer Service Could Help Banks Reduce Consumer Anxiety Over Fees

First, a reminder: This is customer service week.  Are you doing anything special to “celebrate” this week?  To get a few ideas I wrote a top ten list in a recent article.  Go to http://bit.ly/n5J5Uy. Recent headlines in the business … Continue reading

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Upgrade Your Words to Improve Your Customer Service Experience

Warning: The words you use to communicate with your customer can destroy the customer service experience.

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Ten Customer and Employee Focused Ideas for National Customer Service Week

Every year, the first week of October is National Customer Service Week.  Are you doing anything special?  Here are ten customer and employee focused ideas (and there are a lot more) that you can do during this very important week.

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