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MARCH 21, 2010

Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 22, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Try to figure out exactly what it is that you want to know about your customer base. Ignore your spendings on CS & u’r toast.

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MAY 21, 2012

There is no relaxing elevator music where I can work until an agent answers; instead I’m forced to listen to a litany of advertisements offering me more services that might very well call me back to this same maze of customer service mediocrity. So what makes Zappos.com a leader in customer service?

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JULY 16, 2010

Here are the top ten winners: Change Forge Customers Rock Get Satisfaction Service with a Purpose Customer Service and More The Social Customer Manifesto Whos Your Gladys Dennis Snow’s Blog Amazing Service Guy Blog Customer Service en Visit Awarding the Web for the complete list of winners.

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APRIL 14, 2010

If you are going to be in the area – consider spending a day of making connections and learning different ways you can collaborate to help others (as well as yourself) achieve your goals. This regional economic development trade summit is the brain child of Rita Singh from Miraj International.

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AUGUST 7, 2010

I first learned about Treasure your Customer Day from Entrepreneur magazine in 2006. Here is a blurb from a blog written in 2005 about Treasuring your Customers written by Kirsten Osolind : August 7 marks “Treasure Your Customers Day.&# But it certainly didn’t start there.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

“They are looking to learn how to make or purchase things made especially for them,&# she said. I was reading the posts over at Small Business Trends (something I highly recommend you do) and ran across an article by Barry Moltz entitled the 10 Customer Service Trends of 2010.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. It is rare that a company begins its life or expands its offerings by first asking the customer what they want or need. Amazon comes in at #9 with a tagline piece of advice “what’s dangerous is not to evolve.&#

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JUNE 2, 2010

If your customer is between the ages of 18-35 – you need to learn to master the art of social media – or at the very least – be listening real close and often to what is being said.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I recently learned a lesson from a group of young boys who had developed a band. They were being interviewed on a radio station and when the disc jockey asked where fans could find them on the Internet they said: “Just remember BOY BAND.

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MAY 3, 2010

It was an incredible day – more about what I learned in future posts – and several sponsors provided beverages and food to make the day completely FREE to those in attendance. The committee that planned this event did a terrific job.

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JULY 13, 2010

In Alan Alda’s book “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed… and other things I’ve learned,&# he talks about saying yes no matter what just to keep active in your industry. His example is saying yes to keep food on the table.

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JUNE 27, 2010

Interested to learn more about what I gab about? Visit Customer Relationship Speaker. Tags: customer relationship speaker , Deborah Chaddock Brown Add A Comment home top Site Information © 2010 Make or Break Moments Ministry Free Theme by eGrace Creative. And yep – it is still free.

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JULY 27, 2010

This past week I asked the question – how do you say thank you without using the words and Patrick Hazlewood had an awesome answer: Although every interaction with the customer is part of the “sale&# or “sale process,&# including post-sale follow-ups or customer service responsiveness, not everything must be a sales pitch.

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MAY 26, 2010

But today I learned something new (along with meeting some interesting people) and I love spending time when I learn something new. Here’s something I’ve learned on my own: It makes sense to have different elevator pitches based on the venue or your current business focus. It is worth the time it takes to visit.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Great meeting to learn about new sites, new social media techniques. Norma Add A Comment home top Site Information © 2010 Make or Break Moments Ministry Free Theme by eGrace Creative.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Conversely – how would I ever develop relationships with the other associates to learn about them, if they never came in my office? We started to learn about each other. As this article ( [link] ) shows, it’s those small touches, as you’ve learned, that make such a huge difference. They didn’t know me.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Sharing our passion for what we do is a great way to learn new ways to make the customer experience better, to market ourselves better, to learn from each other to be more effective. So are you indispensable?

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Like snowflakes, each customer’s needs are different and we have to be open and aware by using our active listening skills to learn about their unique circumstance. If we don’t, that individual customer, like freshly fallen snow, might turn ugly before our eyes.

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MAY 6, 2010

If you could pick one person to work with and learn from; who would that be? You were so thougtful to share with other hundreds of women to learn and grow. How have you seen collaboration work in your life or business? Why don’t you email them or call them or link to them on LinkedIn? SINGH said, Hi Deborah This is beautiful.

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MAY 4, 2010

I was there with 17 others from Norma Rist’s Rist List group of women-business owners (8 of us pictured above) and so we split up and attended different sessions than came together at lunch and dinner to share what we’d learned.

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APRIL 15, 2010

As the news hit that we were in for tough economic times I asked the question “will the economy have an impact on the dollars you spend for customer service training?&# Groups are a great way to make connections, show off your expertise and learn from industry leaders.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

She said lots of thought provoking, inspirational stuff as Maya often does but the one quote that really struck me was this one: ‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ ’ How true is that?

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JANUARY 4, 2010

We can all learn a lesson from banks by listening to our consumers and providing a marketing message that answers their most prevalent questions. Two enthusiastic thumbs up. And then here’s the important part: making sure the answers are simple and easy to understand and easy to find on our website.

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JULY 1, 2010

I learned a great deal from her regarding social media marketing, organizing my time better and walked away with a lot of tools. A simple email of “help me know how I can learn about your business so that I can recommend you&# has led to a new friendship, business relationship and the chance to meet Chris Brogan over the Internet!

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APRIL 30, 2010

The instructions for this form are broken into two parts: Social Media Site Map – Part One Social Media Site Map – Part Two Okay, you have your direction – you’ve identified the brand message and the target customer, now let’s think about the ways you can connect with those customers.

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MARCH 11, 2010

The group learned that by sticking with their own comfortable way of communicating rather than trying to be sympathetic to other communication styles, they struggled to develop a relationship of trust and mutual respect. » makeorbreakmoments.com said, [.]

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Customers came in to ask of her progress. When I learned of the diagnosis I went straight from the store to the hospital to give her a hug. I was surprised and overwhelmed by my feelings but that is the kind of relationship she fostered with her customers.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

I have often theorized the importance of building relationships with customers and now a recent survey puts dollars to the sense of that theory. I learned today from CustServ that the cost of lost customers equals 338.5 What can you do to turn prospects into customers. BILLION a year ! How much is that costing you?

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Lesson Learned: One way to create sales is to get people into the store. One person was behind the desk, I was no more than five feet away and talking to her when she picked up the phone and called a vendor, totally ignoring my presence. The marketing worked, I was there in person.

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MARCH 9, 2010

They use technology to allow service men and women to deposit checks no matter where they are stationed. What lessons can we learn?

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JUNE 9, 2010

If you really want to see your customers come back, wow them with service, value and quality. This article ( [link] ) talks about the moments of impact that businesses can use to leave customers with the same impression you had from your furniture store. Sure, me too. But didn’t it also make you feel a little curious?

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

I am about to learn a new exercise called strangulation, but I take a deep breath. I am not a happy customer right now. I am not happy that I paid EXTRA for this computer support and I definitely don’t feel like I experienced good customer service. That is the problem. I decide to take a different tack.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Kathleen served as an adjunct faculty member at the McCallum Graduate School at Bentley University from 2009 to 2019 where she taught the Psychology of Financial Planning in the CFP program. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, Money Magazine, TODAY Money, Forbes, and CNBC.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

I thought I would prefer someone from the United States and Canada but I soon learned that they were the highest cost and not all had experience. However, I kept thinking, how can they get experience if someone doesn’t hire them so I didn’t eliminate all without experience on oDesk… at first.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blogging – sharing my thoughts about customer service and learning from others about topics I’m interested in. Plus, you can listen to comments from your customers the instant they have something to say. It’s just so simple to connect with customers! The Global Conversation. Sharing of pics, videos and fun stuff.

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JUNE 15, 2010

He’s too new in the sales game to have learned the trick many sales people adopt – focusing their sales efforts on the items that bring the biggest commission. At least financially. He’s just following the sales pitch; thrilled when anyone makes a purchase.

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MAY 7, 2010

The genesis for the series itself has all the makings of a thrilling read: regular correspondence between people around the world; a proactive collaboration between 15 countries; and two marketing professionals who have never met each other face to face, scrambling to learn how to publish a book from the ground up.

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