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Surprise! Your Customer Service Ain’t All That.

Tips From T. Marie

A recent article on Small Business Trends explains that although you may believe you and your business are providing excellent customer service, chances are your customers/clients aren’t exactly on the same page. Obviously, as business owners we tend to be biased about the delivery of good customer service.

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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. You need real connections to develop lasting relationships with your customers. Do your homework.

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When businesses decide to neglect customer service

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Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn no longer maintain call centers claiming the costs are too high. Do these powerful organizations therefore view customer service as an operational cost rather than a marketing investment? The quality of customer service paves the way for loyalty, revenue and happy shareholders.

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Finding a real person when contacting customer service

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Consumer Reports tell us that organizations rarely listen to the surveys they ask when we hear the infamous, “Your call is very important to us. So why do they insult us and make us want to throw our phones across the room as we try to make our way through the maze of the company phone tree? Google your problem first.

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New in Google Docs: Spreadsheets Form Summary

Denise Aday

I love how Google quietly and consistently adds new tools – and new capabilities to existing ones. A favorite tool of mine is Google Docs – spreadsheets in particular. This questionnaire is a Google spreadsheet that has been turned into an online form that can be conveniently completed in a browser.

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Can’t get much customer satisfaction with Facebook

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Just this week the American Customer Satisfaction Index partnering with ForeSeeResults polled 70,000 users of websites and social networks including Facebook, Google, CNN and Wikipedia. Most of us find customer service and customer satisfaction a challenge just in the businesses and organizations we pay to use.

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‘Social listening’ can help businesses become more effective

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.” Eleven languages, 24/7 availability, and participating in social media for the sake of the company, help Dell to continue growing stronger brand relationships with customers. One can’t separate however, customer service with “social listening”; as Dell states it is a key part of the brand.