Make Customer Service Your First Priority

You can improve customer service by finding ways to meet most customer needs promptly – and providing some level of service even when you cannot meet their needs.

How to Improve Customer Service

Good service will bring the customer back. Superior service will give customers something to tell their family and friends. Here are ArLyne Diamond’s top tips for taking your customer service to another level.

You Better Know Who You’re Serving

Margo Chevers contrasts two very different customer service incidents that highlight the impact of service delivery.

5 Steps to Exceed Customer Expectations

Here are 5 ways you can make sure your business is always meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

How to Enhance Customer Service

The 5 essential things you have to do in your business to enhance customer service.

12 Ideas for Customer Service Training

Providing customer service training for your staff is an important part of your organization’s quest to deliver outstanding service. Here are twelve ideas you can incorporate into your training methods.

How to Handle Difficult Customer Conversations

Trouble can come from any direction. A delayed product shipment causes a customer to miss a deadline. A salesperson (maybe even you!) promises more than your company could deliver.

7 Tips for Customer Service Managers

Leonard Buchholz shares his top 7 tips for customer service management.

The Truth About Really Great Customer Service

If we satisfy that need in others by communicating on a human level as well as a business level, then all our interactions will be much more productive.

What Words are Music to the Ears of Your Customers

In this article we will take a look at the power of words to create trust, allegiance and commitment in our customers and clients.

Respecting your client’s communication preferences is not just a courtesy, it’s good business. It’s not about you; it’s about your client.

Focusing on Customer Service Consistency

This article explains the role of consistency in boosting customer retention and satisfaction.

What Is Customer Service?

Customer service is not customer satisfaction as reported by customer satisfaction surveys.

What Exactly is Customer Service?

From a practical prospective, customer service is the activity of satisfying customer needs. From an emotional one it’s much more than that – customer service is caring for customers and treating them with respect.

10 Ways To Improve Your Customer Service

We all know, deep down, that customer relationships should never be left to chance. So now is the time to seize that moment! Here are ten simple improvements that you can get started on today.

Hire For Attitude Customer Service

Six Do’s and Dont’s for hiring customer friendly, productive employees.

Improving Communications with Customers or Clients

One of our most important skills, both personally and professionally, is our ability to communicate.

What Is More Important Than Customer Loyalty?

When are 20 Dollars and a store manager’s ego more important than a decade of loyalty from a customer?

Ed Sykes reveals his customer service secrets for winning back customers, increasing customer satisfaction, and increasing your bottom line.