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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. According to the Echo 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer , only 7 percent of U.S.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. In the mirror, he sees a man who started self-medicating with cocaine and alcohol after losing his wife to cancer. In reality, “children a few miles away are starving” too, but there’s a reason Americans don’t use that phrase.

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Holiday Messages Made Easy

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you are a job seeker, send a greeting to every person you talked with about your career search this year, whether that talk was in person, by phone, or by email. We wish you the best of holidays and a prosperous 2012! It has been a pleasure helping you reach your goals, and we look forward to contributing to your success in 2012.

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We all have relationship regrets — and here’s how we can learn from them

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The person who answered the phone explained that Deepa had died that morning. “I Likewise, a 2012 study by researchers Mike Morrison, Kai Epstude, and Neal Roese concluded that regrets about social relationships are felt more deeply than other types of regrets because they threaten our sense of belonging. Full stop.”.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Unsolicited Help.

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