Customer Service
Greatly Exceed Early Customer Expectations
First customers are critical. Greatly exceed expectations at all costs. There is so much history behind this insight, and so many stories that illustrate this point. Your first customers for any product or service form your…
3 Reasons Why Customer Service Should Exceed Expectations
In our last article, we discussed 4 Steps to GIVE Exceptional Customer Service. Now we want to go over some of the key reasons why it is so important that customer service should be exceptional—to exceed…
Find Your Teacher Customer
Your customers know what they want more than you do. Find one to teach you. This week’s insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years…
6 Crippling Customer Service Non-Calls
The most devastating customer service calls are the ones you don’t get. They are far more damaging to your business that the ones you get a chance to answer and respond to. When you have…
Building a Loyalty Model
The kind of loyalty model I will be discussing in the next several blogs is a basic business model that is often used in strategic management. The basic premise of the model is that customer…
Another Look at Your Customers
In my previous blog I discussed the tyranny of the urgent and why is such a limiting perspective in understanding customers. I closed the blog by pointing out that the focus should always be on…
Who Are You Listening To?
The “tyranny of the urgent” is a phrase that is commonly used when working in a service environment. The phrase reminds people that “urgent” requests often take priority over “important” requests. Service managers often find…
7 Social Listening Hacks to Boost Customer Loyalty
The importance of customer loyalty is unquestionable. Making every customer a satisfied, regular customer is an ultimate goal for business owners. However, fostering true customer retention is as far from easy work. You need to be…
Make Sure Every Detail of Customer Service is Evaluated
“Look through your customer’s eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem?” ~Marlene Blaszczyk My significant other, Ellie, just had knee replacement surgery. The procedure went incredibly well, but we needed to…
Save Your Sanity and Fire That Problematic Client
When entrepreneurs launch new businesses, they go to extraordinary lengths to earn clients. We’ll take any meeting, make dozens of cold calls and send out hundreds of emails. Slowly, our hustle is rewarded as our…
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