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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S.

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Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

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The fast paced world of Twitter, Facebook, and Yelp combined with the technological advances of smart phones, interactive websites, and emails enable millions of users to make better informed decisions than ever before possible. Understand the product or service and has a thorough working knowledge of the components.

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Customer Service Hell

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I got instead a reminder of real customer service hell a computer answerphone instead of a human voice - do you know what I mean? They are located in Exeter UK, where 2010 people according to January 2011 statistics are unemployed and claiming benefit. It certainly is not people is it! flipping heck!

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How to improve customer service in the digital world

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Wachovia turned into Wells Fargo in March 2011. They also promised to have more in-house personnel to assist customers and to become more efficient. So how can Wells Fargo and other institutions or businesses become more customer service friendly? Train customer service agents better. photo by: prayitno.

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Providing the customer service that your customers deserve

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It makes research convenient and allows us to compare prices, services, and even to formulate questions we want answered by one of the many providers out there, but what about an organization’s customer service? Keep a customer’s mobile experience positive; this trend is becoming more popular.

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Amazon.com still a leader in customer service

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Amazon.com’s newest customer service facility opened on Friday with a fanfare of speeches and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new 70,000 square-foot center in Kinetic Park, West Virginia was described as a “perfect fit” by Vice President of Amazon customer service Tom Weiland.

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How to survive customer service blunders in the world of social media

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Jeff Woodland, a blog writer for Genesys recently equated himself to having been a “social vampire” in his customer service dissatisfaction with his Internet provider and contends a business’ reputation can be greatly harmed via Facebook, Twitter, and company forums. The conversion.