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What Makes Good Customer Service?

Success

Good customer service is vital to success. Research from Qualtrics XM Institute indicates that 76% of customers will trust a company with strong customer service. Compare that with only 40% of customers trusting a company with poor service. The Basics of Good Customer Service.

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Take Control of Your Customer Service with These 6 Tips

Success

Quality customer service is your competitive edge. Everyone can have similar products or services, but what they can’t replicate is your people, how your employees treat your customers and how your customers feel when they are doing business with you. Their first belief is that service is important.

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BYOD Improves Customer Service Workflow

Office Dynamics

Imagine being able to assist customers from the comfort of your own home, or even better, imagine being able to reach a customer service representative without having to be put on hold. These two concepts have the potential to become a reality with the latest trend in customer service, BYOD or "bring your own device."

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Why Traditional Employment Limits Flexibility

Small Business Labs

Allowing customer-facing workers complete schedule flexibility would result in constant misallocation of resources.   This would result in bad customer service, unprofitable operations, and business failure.   But in exchange, they take on the risk that there may not be customer demand when they work.

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‘WOW’ customer service has to be reliable and consistent

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With the convenience of online browsing, the possibilities are endless, but how will our online retailers handle customer service? The customer service representative was exceptional and spent the time trying to figure out what replacement cushions would have the best result. And so the shopping begins.

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Why the over 50s are leaving the workforce in huge numbers

Workplace Insight

In our latest research , which has just been made available online as a policy briefing note, we have taken the deepest dive yet into rising economic inactivity among the over-50s and what it means for the economy using the most recent UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) data. Implications and policy challenges. So what’s going on?

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The top ten retailers for best customer service

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The National Retail Foundation along with American Express listed the top ten retailers for best customer service selected by shoppers in their sixth annual Customers’ Choice Survey. The survey encompassed consumer attitudes toward retailers’ customer service and how retailers promote best practices.