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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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Is self-service better than live customer service?

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According to a recent article from the Harvard Business Review, customers ultimately don’t want a relationship and prefer the use of machines, but doesn’t the relationship depend on whether a customer has a good or bad result with a machine? or “Would you like to donate a dollar to a certain charitable fund?&#.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » B&H Customer Service

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. A system that makes special orders simple is a system that helps promote customer service. Possibly Related Posts: L.L.Bean ranks #1 in customer service L.L. Inventory tracking. It’s worth a read.

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Customers Look for Personalization

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“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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1 Great Tip for Reaching Customers

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Isn’t the goal to make it easy for our customers/prospects to do business with us? If more and more use mobile devices to research, connect and purchase then shouldn’t that mean that our priorities need to shift when it comes to developing a mobile version of our website? D Julie-Ann said, Deborah, fantastic article!

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Silence is Deadly

Make or Break Moments

His phone is turned off – probably to avoid my text messages – and the silence is killing me. I changed my account and paid for premium service thinking that maybe there was a glitch in the free service. It included another customer service address to contact. So I focus on work. Except, guess what??

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Customer Relationships: Not Something You Can Set and Forget

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I’ll never know if I don’t pick up the phone and ask. Are you guilty of just focusing on the customers or prospects that scream the loudest and let the ones who seem self sufficient, fend for themselves? I am a customer service trainer, and in training I reiterate the importance of the customer relationship.