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

Success

I look forward to working with you to reduce the time between your client’s call for repairs and when your service team arrives on-site.” I know of a company that enhances first impressions by having customized welcome signs reserving the best parking spots for client visits. You are now our new most favorite customer!

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Office trends may come and go, but some values (such as good ergonomics) are eternal

Workplace Insight

When I first established the company in 1999, it was called Home Working Solutions as I felt there were increasing numbers of people working from home that needed appropriate furniture to do that. It was something that no other company seemed to be offering at that time.

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

Success

When starting a new company , you don’t really have a brand image because no one knows you yet. To get started, consider the deepest, lasting values of your company brand. They should balance being both specific to your niche audience and company values, but broad enough to work at any stage of growth.

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Good Customer Service Can Go A Long Way | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? Good Customer Service Can Go A Long Way by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 24, 2010 For a small business, customer retention can prove as profitable as sourcing new customers. How many of us haven’t ranted to our friends about our dealings with a service provider?

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Customer Service Hell

Catch Friday

There's something electrifying about a shocking experience I had today when I decided to pay EDF, an electric utility supplier in the UK - anyone would think that ringing to pay a bill would be so easily - but it's not - not at all! Électricité de France ( EDF ) is the world’s largest utility company and no wonder! flipping heck!

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Best Buy customer service still at odds

Service Untitled

Best Buy just can’t get it right, and customers continue to complain. Even the company’s promotion on used videos this weekend piled up consumer complaints as customers couldn’t find what they wanted in either the stores or online. It was impossible to deal with Best Buy’s customer service.

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Small Business Startup Checklist – Company Structure | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? Small Business Startup Checklist – Company Structure by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 19, 2008 An important early decision that will have long-term consequences for your business is to determine the legal form it will trade under. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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