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What Makes Good Customer Service?

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Good customer service is vital to success. Research from Qualtrics XM Institute indicates that 76% of customers will trust a company with strong customer service. Compare that with only 40% of customers trusting a company with poor service. The Basics of Good Customer Service.

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How to Improve Customer Service: 7 Ways to Take Your Mission Beyond Words

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You need to improve your customer service. Recent customer service research from Microsoft suggests customer service expectations have risen sharply in recent years. It matters to your bottom line because customers base their future spending on their customer service experience. .

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Raise your hand if you like automated phone message systems…

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I know that they ask for this information—account numbers, PINS, last 4 digits of your social security number—so that the representative has your account or profile pulled up when they take your call but based on my experience 98% of the time, I have to repeat that information to them anyway… just ridiculous.

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BYOD Improves Customer Service Workflow

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Imagine being able to assist customers from the comfort of your own home, or even better, imagine being able to reach a customer service representative without having to be put on hold. These two concepts have the potential to become a reality with the latest trend in customer service, BYOD or "bring your own device."

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Customer Service: When is Automation a Good Idea?

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Automation with customer service has to be handled with care. While customers are now used to computerized answering services instead of a receptionist picking up the calls, there’s also usually a decline in the service level when having trouble getting hold of a real person. Routing Calls Better.

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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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The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S. According to the Echo 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer , only 7 percent of U.S.

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Why Big Business Has Customer Service All Wrong (and how small businesses can take advantage of it)

Tips From T. Marie

I’m a stickler about customer service. I have experience serving and helping others, so when it comes time for me to be the customer I have high expectations. This morning I read Seth Godin’s latest blog post entitled, Please Go Away in which he talks about the way most big businesses deal with customer service.