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MARCH 21, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? Try to figure out exactly what it is that you want to know about your customer base. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? You want the whole tree." " 1 week ago Be a likeable person to be successful at being self employed or a freelancer. 1 week ago More updates. — ST.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Great meeting to learn about new sites, new social media techniques. We call ourselves the Akron Bloggers Community. It started a little over three years ago when Chris Brown of Marketing Resources and Results , Inc. and I decided it would be fun to have a meet up with other bloggers in the area.

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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. p.s. Yours truly will be presenting a workshop on Creating an Effective Marketing Strategy using Social Media.

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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.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I recently learned a lesson from a group of young boys who had developed a band. I recently learned a lesson from a group of young boys who had developed a band. Check out this great tool KnowEm which lists 350 social media sites. It is a great way to create a consistent name so customers can easily find you.

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MAY 7, 2010

Fast forward to today and the abstract experiment is now a concrete treatise on the state of social media and marketing best practices as a whole. Read all about it and then order your copy.

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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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APRIL 15, 2010

Join a Group Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on April 15, 2010 under Connecting Moments , social media | Be the First to Comment If I were a betting woman I would say that you have joined LinkedIn. Groups are a great way to make connections, show off your expertise and learn from industry leaders.

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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. June 20, 2010 Sheila Clover English , Social Network Committee Chair , International Thriller Writer’s Organization I didn’t know Sheila. She is engaging and fun as well!”

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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. My session was called Create a Customer-Focused Social Media Strategy.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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JULY 13, 2010

A favorite customer of mine called last week and asked if we could meet for an hour. 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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MARCH 9, 2010

They use technology to allow service men and women to deposit checks no matter where they are stationed. They have programs specially designed for the unique nature of their customers. What lessons can we learn?

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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. My backyard is buried in the white stuff.

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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. Scandal, fear, anger, and a general loss of confidence from consumers have made banking a challenging field. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.

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AUGUST 7, 2010

I first learned about Treasure your Customer Day from Entrepreneur magazine in 2006.

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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. On June 14, 2010 at 8pm est – Linchpins around the globe will unite to share, network, connect and collaborate. So are you indispensable?

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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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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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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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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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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. We didn’t grow up together.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on January 7, 2010 under Connecting Moments , Customer Moments , making a difference | Read the First Comment What is the cost of a lost customer? I have often theorized the importance of building relationships with customers and now a recent survey puts dollars to the sense of that theory.

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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. It was time. Sure, me too. Did it build loyalty? Pricing isn’t everything.

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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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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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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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AUGUST 8, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? They all have to do their part by providing excellent customer service. Explaining it to potential customers should become second nature to them.

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MAY 18, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? At WinWeb.com our aim is to remain focused on the customer at all time, customer service, customer experience and how the customer feels.

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JUNE 20, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth.

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