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Extraordinary Customer Service, what does this mean to me?

Well, I could certainly share more than 1 occasion in which the service was so terrible it seemed almost personal, and I chirped off to the competition and that was that. I have to agree with Jim that a good example is sooo hard to find. So, I’ve started to take this approach – and, if you’re creative enough at the time, you may enjoy it too… I reward the extraordinary services even more by going that extra step as a customer. I call over a supervisor if out somewhere, ask for a contact name/number/email in which I can share what a great experience I just had with so-so doing such-such, or leave a bigger tip, a more detailed comment card. Whatever I can do to share how I feel after being served by them. Since I’ve been doing this, [...]

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Customer Service in Reverse

Today a client from one of the major consultancy companies had an issue with one of our products – he wasn’t able to download the product link from where he was.

What amazes me is how brainwashed big consultancy-staff is in thinking they’re always right.

The download link was fine – the issue was clearly a local one, a firewall, a local setting, one of many easy to solve ones by having us send the download link to a personal email address and then downloading it from home, without the hassles of a corporate firewall network blocking it.

Kindly have it sent and confirm. This is very urgent. I am a bit surprised that all other websites and links open up . Pls cross check and revert with a permanent solution

What disturbs me, is the one track solution mind – “a and b [...]

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Customer Service Legends – Is Nordstrom Still Nordstrom?

I was having a delightful conversation with a client the other day when she mentioned that she and her semi-rural neighbors “Think nothing [...]

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Review of Raving Fans – A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service

Shortly after I started reading this book, I had to shut up my inner critic and open myself up to the lessons. Ken Blanchard and Sheldon [...]

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Insurance Customer Service Skills & Customer Service Support – Top Insurance Clients

It is very under emphasized the importance of learning customer service skills to maintain top insurance clients. Without customer service [...]

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Improving Customer Service With Mobile Point of Sale Equipment

Imagine shopping at any business that you frequent, are there things that you don’t necessarily like about the overall experience? Is there [...]

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Customer Service – ‘The Irritating Lack of Consistency’

A few weeks ago I was working with a group of course delegates on a community project. We were spending a couple of days re-furbishing a classroom [...]

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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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