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Top 3 2009 Sales Resolutions
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| It’s a new year, with a fresh sales quota and a new set of sales resolutions. I’m always looking for ways to improve and January consistently finds me evaluating my performance from the previous year then setting goals for the coming one. |
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“BUILDING UP OR SELECTIVELY DEMOLISHING AN IMAGE \"
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| 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. |
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“The State of Customer Service or Disservice in The U.S. – Awesome, Adequate or Abysmal? “
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| Many companies are touting world class, first class, and/or high quality customer service today. However, as a strategic thinking business coach, I wonder about the true state of customer service in the U.S. What is the real level of customer service being delivered – is it Awesome, Adequate or Abysmal?
So, what is the “state of customer service” in the U.S.? I found a source of information to help answer that question in survey results released by Accenture, the giant consulting firm. Some highlights from the Fall, 2006 results include:
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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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Heart of Marketing by Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski
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| Customer service and really good customer service seems to be a thing of the past in many businesses. When I was growing up - my grandfather reinforced the importance of stellar customer service to me and that lesson has served me very well of the last two decades. This book explains how to put "heart" back into our businesses and our marketing. |
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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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The Significance of Customer Service
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| The quality of a business’ customer service to its customers is one of the most visible and significant aspects of organisational performance. Many organisations however find customer service to be one of the most challenging and neglected areas of management. Gary discusses in this article the significance that customer service has to the success of a business. |
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Are You A Good Customer?
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| 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. |
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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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