Blocks to Customer Focus
Despite all the proclamations, catchy advertising slogans, and customer service publicity, service levels have improved only marginally in the last few years. Learn more about the blocks to customer focus.
How to Amplify the Voice of the Customer
Actively pursuing Voice of the Customer feedback generates genuine business intelligence. Read on to learn how to amplify the voice of the customer.
Action Ideas to Deal with Difficult Customers
When was the last time you had to deal with a difficult customer? It was probably an external customer but perhaps it was an internal customer, such as a member of your team, a colleague or even – your boss!
Customer Satisfaction Isn’t Enough Any More
Standards have gone up – and 90% customer satisfaction simply isn’t enough any more. You have to go far beyond simple satisfaction to build follow-up and referral business, and profitability.
Managing Customer Contacts
You work extremely hard to attract customers for your business. Once you have them, managing your customer contacts can help you keep them from jumping to competitors.
Are You Hearing Your Customers?
How can you ensure your ‘tracking service’ is on? Keep communication open to always hear your customers. Don’t just send messages; encourage theirs, as well. Learn more in this article.
Great Service Means Being Extraordinary
Great service means much, much more than meeting a minimal standard. It means doing extraordinary and sometimes outrageous things on behalf of your customers or clients.
What’s your Customer Service Style?
Whatever kind of customer service you offer – whether big or small, expensive or cheap, large-scale or small – do it with style.
The Unbeatable Laws Of Customer Service
If you want to be number one in customer service, you have to do a number of things that make you stand out from the crowd. Here are 7 ways that will put you on top.
Customer Loyalty Linked to Employee Satisfaction
It is now widely believed that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between a loyal employee and a loyal customer.
Thank Goodness for Customer Complaints
If I was thinking of buying stocks and shares in a company – or more importantly buying products from them – I would try to find out how good they are at dealing with customer complaints.
Sure Fire Ways To Drive Customers Away!
Call it regimented thinking. Call it the-way-we-have-always-done-it. But by any name, there are actions and practices that far too many businesses engage in that can unknowingly drive customers away.
Building Loyal Customers, from Contact to Delivery
Getting customers to trust your firm is the name of the game. In fact, after money and desire, all purchases are about trust.
Making Customers Feel Important
Customers are people first. This means that each of your Customers, like everyone else, wants to feel important.
How to ‘Revolutionize’ Your Customer Service
There’s much written and spoken about customer care, customer service, even customer delight. But what does it all mean? Here are seven tips to help you look at your business and identify where you can “revolutionize” your customer service.
Raising the Profile of Customer Care
Disappointingly, customer care departments are often poorly resourced and under valued in the corporate hierarchy, rather than seen as an opportunity to get closer to customers.
Four Ways to Motivate Customer Service Professionals
These Four motivation strategies can help your organization succeed – one professional at a time.
Perfect Customer Service: Bigger is Not Always Better
Why a bigger customer service department could be the last thing you need.
Bringing True Customer Focus in to Reality
In spite of all the catchy slogans and corporate pledges, customer service levels of major corporations have only slightly improved in the last few years. This is because they ate consumed by task-focus.