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ARE YOU CREATING RAVING FANS?
Customer service is a key opportunity for most businesses in today’s marketplace to add and keep more customers as well as increase the bottom-line. Unfortunately, today’s customers have been forced to accept poor customer service as many companies have cut back on customer care in order to compete on price and profitability. This decision is hurting top and bottom-line results.

Does Your Team Send The Right Message
In this new economy trust and value have become the new Return On Investment. Trust is built through consistent interaction with your company, and value is simply the customer believing they are heard, cared about and their needs are met. As a business owner, you may be delivering that kind of service on a day-in and day-out basis, but what about your team? Are you sure that every time a client calls your office, one of your locations or works with a new employee, that they are getting same message or service they have come to count on?

The Importance of On Demand Customer Service
I am constantly amazed by the fact that some companies don’t bother to respond to website information requests…acknowledge voice mails…reply to emails, etc. It’s safe to say that being totally ignored represents the extreme end of the (bad) service spectrum and very few will argue that “indifference” is not a good customer service strategy. But what constitutes reasonable or excellent service in today’s marketplace? Are consumers more demanding today than in the past?

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“BUILDING UP OR SELECTIVELY DEMOLISHING AN IMAGE \"
Is your customer service building up a positive image for you as a builder or is it selectively demolishing your image? Do you simply talk about good customer service or do you provide and promote a daily customer service commitment? And is customer service really important to individual builders and the entire building industry? The answers are crucial to you specifically as a builder and to the building industry, in general.

Customer Service Made Easy
There is a mystery around customer service. Most consumers think that customer service has gone downhill. Most businesspeople think that their customer service is good. How can this be possible? If you can solve this puzzle then you are well on your way to delivering great customer service.

Motivate Your Customer Service Team for Outstanding Customer Service: Six Secrets of Customer Service Motivation
Providing outstanding customer service is one of the most rewarding yet challenging activities within your organization. Exceptional organizations that provide outstanding customer service will experience the following benefits: * Increased customer satisfaction * Increased revenues * Increased repeat and referral customer traffic * Less employee turnover * Increased profits So how do we support and motivate our customer service team to give outstanding customer service? The following are six secrets to motivate your customer service team to give exceptional customer service to your customers.
Using Customer Service To Generate Incremental Revenue
In a recent strategy session, I had the opportunity to brainstorm ways to generate incremental revenue with the CEO of a small software company. We discussed how the customer service/client relationship may be well suited to creating new revenue streams. One idea that stood out was the perception your clients have towards sales vs. customer service.
Would you get A Tattoo of the General Motors’ Logo?
When was the last time you were really excited about the customer service you received? A recent survey showed that 44% of people rate the customer service they usually receive as dull and bland. Most customer service experiences are, well ok, and we unusually come away somewhat satisfied from the experience. This is all well and good, but most of your competitors are already doing this. To stand out from the competition you need to demonstrate customer service on a dramatically different level: service that is anything but bland and dull! Think Disney, Harley Davidson, or Apple.

Why you should stop trying to delight your customers
Delighting customers does not build loyalty. Reducing customers’ effort does. These were the findings from a large customer service survey conducted by the Customer Contact Council (CCC), and featured in the July edition of the Harvard Business Review. The survey’s aim was to get answers to three questions: 1. How important is customer service to loyalty? 2. Which customer service activities increase loyalty, and which don’t? 3. Can companies increase loyalty without raising their customer service operating costs? After conducting structured interviews with customer service leaders and a study of more than 75,000 customers, the CCC uncovered three findings...
How to Sell to the Price Driven Customer
Learn a sales strategy for the price driven customer. Discover how deal control can promote customer service and help you close the sale.
Are You A Good Customer?
There are great books on the market about customer service: Raving Fans, Contagious Customer Service and Exceeding Customer Expectations. All good books, however, none address a core issue required for receiving great customer service from vendors and suppliers: be a good customer.

Five Attributes that Lead to Exceptional Customer Service
As a business owner, I have developed a keen sense of the attributes of people who are highly motivated as well as those qualities that lead to counter productive behavior. Regardless of the industry, customer service is key to the success of your business. Unfortunately, there are many examples of people whose poor customer service has been memorable: people who have left us on hold and forgotten about us, waitresses who never return to our table, the customer service person who leaves us on the phone for several minutes. We all have experienced poor customer service at some level. This article illustrates how Five Attributes Can Lead to Exceptional Customer Service. I refer to them as the PAULA(sm) Customer Service Success Program.

Are We Born with Customer Service Skills?
A skill is the learned ability to do something well. Customer service is ensuring the customer’s satisfaction before, during, and after a transaction. Better customer service is having empathy. Humans are born with the capacity to be empathic, but it is through our relationships and interactions with others during our formative years that we learn the foundation for remarkable customer service skills.

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