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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Pet Peeves

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Some of the major examples included: Phone problems (long hold times, annoying hold music, getting disconnected, blind transfers, etc.) The four examples above are good examples of broad categories of customer service frustrations. Employees that aren’t happy to see customers (rude, disaffected, unhappy, etc.)

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » NJ toll road collectors lack.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Week celebrates.

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As an example, Wal-Mart caters to low prices, Microsoft is known for technology, and Mercedes-Benz is known for luxury. The International Customer Association began Customer Service Week in 1988, and in 1992 Congress proclaimed Customer Service Week a nationally recognized event.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » How to overcome negative brand.

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Let’s begin with the classic example of Toyota. Another example goes back to the 1982 deaths of seven Chicago residents after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol. So what do these examples teach us? Here’s a company that used to have a strong brand perception; one publication described it as a “cult-like status.&#

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Answering the “what do you.

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The situation I kept coming back to and thinking of was the classic example of a customer asking a waiter or waitress what they would recommend on a menu, what they think of a particular item on a menu, or something similar. For example: Customer: Do you like the XYZ salad? For example: Customer: What do you think of the XYZ salad?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Exceptional Customer Service.

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A month or so ago, I was fortunate enough to be in the audience of a presentation from a company leader who sets a fabulous example for the employees and franchise owners of his company, Biggby Coffee. If you’re a manager, are you setting a positive example of service for your staff? What do you think?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Quality vs. quantity in customer.

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In an example of the correlation between quality and quantity is an interesting story of a customer service representative who is very detailed oriented, amazing with customers, and received outstanding reviews from managers as well as customers, however she performed low in quantity; she spent too much time on each call.