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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, [...]

Tools for Professionalism in Customer Service

Interview with Steve Coscia discussing professionalism in the HVAC and other service industries: Today we have Steve Coscia, author of [...]

Decreasing Customer Service Cost

The most integral element that is still being missed in the international markets is the overall price associated with keeping the customer [...]

Customer Service Metrics – Tracking What Your Customers Are Saying

Your business is booming! You are making money hand over fist and your bank is sending you love letters. Your investors are crawling over each [...]

What Would a Customer Service Professional Do? They Are Excellent Question Askers Not Person Tellers

A Professional is an excellent question asker and not a person teller. This is the the heart of Customer Service. If you have been following [...]

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 [...]

Great Customer Service

Great customer service is when an employee is just so nice, very courteous and they actually take the time out to hear your needs. Then after [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]