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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. The product, price and speed of delivery are each excellent, yet their customer service could use some improvement. After a stressful day for this entrepreneur, one particular customer service representative behaves rudely.

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Best Buy customer service still at odds

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Spokesperson for the company, Lisa Hawks blamed the glitches on their software supplier, Oracle which presumably can forecast demand and plan the coordinating inventory, but stated the problem was under control and wouldn’t happen again. It was impossible to deal with Best Buy’s customer service.

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Building The Right Relationships

The Small Business Blog

Building relationships doesn’t start and finish with customer relationships; in fact great customer relationships are difficult to maintain if the other relationships within your business aren’t satisfactory.

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Ultimate travel itinerary

Practically Perfect PA

The airline emergency and customer service numbers. Choosing a supplier for your office is not easy, particuarly when it comes to business travel. There are so many options and the prices range from budget to, shall we say, extravagant! The telephone number and address for the local embassy office. Book your place now.

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Do You Convey Value?

Make or Break Moments

How many of you have had to raise your prices (or perhaps you hesitate to raise them) and then have to justify the price increase to your customers? Perhaps your suppliers have raised prices. As Kathleen put it – we need to make them better investor partners.

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

However a recession can be a excellent time to spend money too, providing you have the cash to spend – here are some tips on how to spend & save at the same time: Always ask for a better price , no matter what, always ask. If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal.

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The Evolution of CRM

Productivity Bits

These are generally focused on sales activities, but also encompass other critical business functions such as customer service, marketing and technical support. Customer activity such as emails, orders and invoices can all be linked to this. This article was written by Workbooks, leading supplier of web-based CRM software.

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