Home > Run and Grow > Customer Service >
Customer Service
6 Ideas for Boosting Customer Service at Your Small Business
Interested in boosting customer service at your small business? If so, the first thing you need to do is ask yourself how well your team executes it. Spend some time on the floor, investigate weaknesses, highlight strengths, and devise a strategy for improvement.
Certifications to Build Customer Service Skills and Careers
The experts at Software Advice, an online resource for customer service software buyers, recently compiled a summary of customer service certifications that can be obtained by service professionals. As is true with any profession in a highly competitive job market, certifications can give a job seeker an advantage over their competitors.
Letting Staff Make Decisions in Customer Service Issues
A critical piece of every business’s customer service strategy is how you plan to handle customer concerns. When properly dealt with, complaints are an opportunity to transform angry or upset customers into extremely loyal ones.
Smile + Personalization = Customer Service Success
How many times have you purchased something when it was just a transaction? How different when you the customer become a person with a LIFE in which the customer service representative takes genuine interest.
The Customer Satisfaction Conundrum
The bottom line is the customer satisfaction is not as simple as it used to be. No longer are customers uniquely loyal to only one brand. Certainly, it is important to maintain customer satisfaction, but the satisfaction scores by themselves are not sufficient to ensure sustainability and growth.
Customer Service from the C-Suite to the Mail Room
In a recent interview, I was asked questions about why the leaders of a company in the “C-Suite” should focus on customer service. While the customer service vision may start in the C-Suite, everyone must own the responsibility.
Come Sail Away from Competitors with Customer Service
This weekend I took a stroll down memory lane at a fantastic Styx and Foreigner Soundtrack of Summer concert. What was interesting to me from a business and customer service standpoint was the many ways the audience was involved in the concert.
How Easy Do You Make it for People to Complain?
I visited a local Walgreens yesterday morning and witnessed two very different customer service experiences. One was excellent, and unfortunately, one was crummy.
Policies That Work Against Great Customer Service
So many times, businesses establish policies that work for them but penalize their customers. Now go out and make sure you do not have any policies that seem like they are serving your business but are really reducing your sales and diminishing the quality of customer service you provide.
Customer Experience Lesson from a Superstar Athlete
Recognized as one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game, Earvin “Magic” Johnson is also successful in business, perhaps even more so. He is known for guiding typical suburban businesses into urban America.
More from Customer Service
Top Articles in This Category
Stay up to date with
