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

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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. In fact, retaining current customers can be more cost-effective as no outgoings are necessary to market and sell to them. So, listen to them.

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Emerging Technologies for Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Gone are the days when filing, phone skills, and semi-legible shorthand were key requirements for an admin job. The “Traditional” Role of the Administrative Professional Has Shifted In the past, admins have been responsible for things like customer service, accounting, and data entry.

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Making sure you receive great customer service

Service Untitled

One has to realize that South Florida – namely Palm Beach County is rich with tourists, snowbirds, and an occasional rude diner which gives us the opportunity to learn by someone’s mistakes. So does getting angry and raising your voice get one better customer service? Leave out the insults.

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Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers

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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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Social CRM: An Idea Whose Time has Come?

Customers Rock!

That’s the perspective many customer service experts have had toward social media-based customer service, or social CRM. With so much noise in the social channel, is it worth it to ferret out a few random requests for customer service? Learn “brand voice”. It puts the ball in the business’s court.”.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. 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. It was simple to set up the account and post the job and before long I had 40 people apply for the job.

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Create a Customer-Focused Social Media Strategy » Make or Break.

Make or Break Moments

I have put together a Customer-Focus Social Media Strategy workbook that I offer FREE to help get you started. This is a workshop that I am invited to give on a regular basis and because I know you can’t come to Ohio and hear me speak, I have created a couple audio files that will walk you through each of the pages in the workbook.