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Customer Service is Like Dating – At Least the Rules Are the Same!

The most important ingredient in the recipe for success is your customer — without the customer there is no retail business. Consumers are [...]

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10 Steps to World-Class Customer Service

Because the business world is presently entrenched in a too-many-suppliers-chasing-too-few-spending-customers death spiral, there has been [...]

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How to Offer Delightful Customer Service Part-1: Relate

Our arrival was just over twelve hours late. With a wind chill well into double digits below zero and the snow falling so heavily the [...]

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The Importance Of Customer Service

Today I was trying to order some supplies online and of course my internet and computer decided they didn’t want to work for me (who can blame [...]

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Airline Customer Service Careers

The US airline industry is gradually moving away from all the bloodletting that brought about the bankruptcy of four major carriers over the [...]

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The 3 R’s of Customer Service

What I am about to tell you may seem very obvious – you may even say DUH!!! but the fact is, – many company’s forget the 3 R’s of good [...]

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Customer Service – Want a Quick Response? Call Into Sales, Not Support

My DSL unit is buggy, and I’ve contacted A T & T about it, several times. You might think that a customer service consultant has better luck [...]

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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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Impress Your Customers and Increase Customer Service by Empowering Your Staff

Want a sure fire way to improve customer service and increase customer satisfaction in your company? Empower your staff to handle most [...]

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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?

Glenn A Curry

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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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