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Poor Customer Service – Are Your Customers Driving Away Other Customers

Every customer you have is a word-of-mouth advertiser for you. Unfortunately 90% of this free advertising is negative. Your goal is to [...]

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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

CPS (Chief Paper Shuffler) Efficient Technologies

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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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Who has had poor customer service from Sprint

Fred Held

Former Marketing and Operations Executive Mattel for McDonald’s and Burger King

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Who has had poor customer service from Sprint

Who else has trouble with Sprint customer and technical service ?

I have had them send me two phones that do not perform as advertised and only get nice emails from customer service .

Waiting over 50 minutes for technical service is totally unaccepted. The phrase “do to unusual call volume…..” is being used by everyone these days for poor service .

I want to show Sprint the power of social networks. If you have similar stories only with sprint let me know please?

Angry, unhappy, disatisfied and wont [...]

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How is your company celebrating Customer Service Week?

Roberta E. Eastman

The Customers Corner – Good Business is to be the Best Resource

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How is your company celebrating Customer Service Week?

I shared 5 ways to celebrate your customers success on my blog today, visit http://www.thecustomerscorner.typepad.com/

Clarification added October 3, 2007:

Hmmm… Maybe this question should have been Does your company celebrate Customer Service Week?

Customer Service Week is an opportunity to celebrate our customers; already shared in the blog and our associates for the level of service they provide our customers. With the lack of responses received to the question, it makes we think maybe we don’t celebrate our customers or associates. So the “how” is [...]

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