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Fire Your Customers
It's time to thin the ranks and fire some customers. That's right, can 'em, send them packing and tell them their business isn't welcome here anymore. Sound crazy? It's crazy if you don't! Why would anyone fire a customer? Simple. It's costing you...
Pay Attention To Your Customers!
A lot has been written about what makes a good salesperson. Education, experience, training, and even a certain inborn "killer instinct" have all been mentioned as necessary qualities to be good at sales. From my experience, however, the best...
Seven Ways to Make Your Customers Feel Important
Two important pre-reading notes: Before you chose to read or not
read this article, let make two things clear. Everyone has
Customers. Even if you work in an internal staff department in a
large firm, you have Customers. They are the people you...
Ten Customer Service Secrets to Win Back Customers
Recently I was facilitating an Outstanding Customer Service program and broke for lunch. Knowing that the restaurants in the area had much to desire as far as service I gave the students an extra fifteen minutes for lunch. Sure enough a group of...
The Branded Customer Experience – We never say no
Colin Shaw urges you to ensure that your branding and marketing activities are aligned with your Customer experience
I work with a client in the North of England. Whenever I visit them I always stay at the same hotel. At this hotel...
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Keeping the Human Element in Customer Service
There is little in life that makes consumers more perturbed at a
business than improper or insufficient phone etiquette. In the
business world, there is no excuse for unprofessional behavior
when speaking with customers and clients over the telephone.
Unfortunately, I'm referring to much more than just
incompetance, rudeness or poor grammar. It seems that today's
customer service representatives are becoming more and more
inhuman with each passing year. Perhaps the sheer volume of
calls that employees are expected to field has made the robotic
and monotinous tones that make me cringe ever more noticeable.
Personally, if I am going to be read a script, I would almost
prefer an automated voice so that I don't have to suffer through
the lacksadaisical and condescending tone of voice that I have
now become accustomed to, much to my chagrin. I wonder what has
happened to the human element in conducting business. Don't
corporations realize that customer service is not a forced
option, but instead an opportunity to present their business to
the world? One can easily distinguish the difference between a
call made to a business for the purpose of buying a product and
a call made to a business for the purpose of receiving help
or
information. When there is money you want to spend on the line,
you can count on a friendly encounter. When it's a call made
over services already rendered or money you owe, it is as though
you are now a second class consumer. Some businesses have now
taken to requiring their employess to ask you if they have
sufficiently served your needs after each phone call. By doing
so, they are attempting to limit their goodwill liability. I
find it sad that we have become a nation where technicalities
have replaced common sense and proper etiquette. If companies
would simply give their employess the resources and time to
follow the golden rule when it comes to human interaction,
consumers and businesses alike would reap the benefits. I know
that, personally, I am more than willing to forgive a billing,
shipping, or other type of error if am simply treated with a
modicum of respect.
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