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The Importance of Good Customer Service

Do you have good customer service? Even for your free giveaways? I have been thinking over the past couple of weeks why some WAHP’s have [...]

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Customer Service Surveys- Your Performance Grade Card

If you really want to know how your customers perceive your retail store’s customer service, there’s only one way to find out. And it’s really [...]

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Headphones Present New Challenges for Customer Service

As the workforce continues to age they can be expected that employees will more frequently be listening to personal music while at work. A [...]

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Customer Service Tip – Change Your Thoughts About Your Customers

Are you having customer service problems? Are customers’ problems not being resolved? Possibly, you need to change your thoughts? What are [...]

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Give Great Customer Service – How Small Changes In Your Company Will Reap Profitable Benefits

How much is “Being Right” costing your company or organization? Studies show that a satisfied customer will tell 20 people of their [...]

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Customer Service Representative Licensing in Florida – The 4-40 License

An insurance customer service representative in the state of Florida is someone who works under the direction and control of a licensed [...]

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Customer Service – Profit from Keeping Customers

Customer service needs to have the goal of helping you profit from keeping customers. Keeping customers needs to be a priority because gaining [...]

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Annual Customer Service Award is Won by an Eye Cream Company

Consumers seldom think about the importance of customer service until they receive a poor level of it.  It is then that they are shocked [...]

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Why the Customer Service Industry Should Employ the Over 50s

In today’s fast paced work environment age and maturity is often undervalued; yet it is a common belief that many UK companies could benefit [...]

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Should “We can’t” ever be OK for Customer Service to say when it is just a matter of their convenience?

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Should “We can’t” ever be OK for Customer Service to say when it is just a matter of their convenience?

I just spent almost an hour on the phone with Customer Service with one of our suppliers. Their on line order system screwed up and transfered the order to the wrong warehouse. It would mean that an order we had very carefully placed to be shipped out of a local warehouse, which would arrive next day without extremely high shipping charges, would arrive next week. When I called their Customer Support dept, I was told the only thing THEY could do is to bill our Card again and [...]

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