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Why Customer Service Destroys Salespeople
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| Customer service alone is not going to help a company achieve its growth targets. It is essential for salespeople to be focused on selling as their first priority...
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Get Rid of Half Your Sales Force - Now!©
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| Most sales people spend the majority of their time in customer service. Most companies want to grow the customer base. This is a conflict that management needs to address in this economy. |
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Service excellence is rocket science
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| There is more to providing excellent customer service than most managers realise. This article, based on recent research in New Zealand, identifies 17 drivers of service excellence that will give you a competitive advantage. |
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Customer Service Made Easy
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| 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. |
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Motivate Your Customer Service Team for Outstanding Customer Service: Six Secrets of Customer Service Motivation
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| 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. |
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Spank the Competition With Superior Service
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| If the product is identical from multiple retailers, and you've removed the price barrier - what's left? Service. Focus on providing the customer with a better experience, better service, or a better value, and you'll win their loyalty. |
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Would you get A Tattoo of the General Motors’ Logo?
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| 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.
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Why you should stop trying to delight your customers
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| 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... |
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What a Virtual Assistant Should Look For In a Phone System
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| In order for a virtual assistant to be effective in a virtual environment, you need to be able to provide excellent communication with your customers. In a previous article, I spoke about providing a comprehensive customer service experience for your client. Among the methods I went over with you were phone service, email service, live chat, a knowledge base and a forum. |
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Increase Shopping Cart Conversions Now
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| In eCommerce trade, one of the most crucial interactions between the merchant and the customer takes place during checkout. The checkout process is where the merchant can exercise most control over the transaction. So, when it comes to providing the best customer service, ensure that you make the checkout process as smooth as possible for the customer. |
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Five Attributes that Lead to Exceptional Customer Service
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| 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.
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Are We Born with Customer Service Skills?
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| 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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