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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

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Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. The product, price and speed of delivery are each excellent, yet their customer service could use some improvement. After a stressful day for this entrepreneur, one particular customer service representative behaves rudely.

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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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In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S. consumers would pay more for a better service experience and that 89 percent have stopped doing business with a company after experiencing poor customer service. These steps can help you deliver superb customer service.

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

Workplace Insight

We have been fortunate enough since then to win National Awards for our Customer Service, Website, Workplace Wellbeing programmes and marketing initiatives, all driven by our ongoing desire to help our clients work well, wherever and however they are working.

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

The Small Business Blog

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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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!

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Best Buy customer service still at odds

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Spokesperson for the company, Lisa Hawks blamed the glitches on their software supplier, Oracle which presumably can forecast demand and plan the coordinating inventory, but stated the problem was under control and wouldn’t happen again. It was impossible to deal with Best Buy’s customer service. What happened?

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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For instance, a pet food supplier would be a candidate for Emma to avoid as she may one day expand into pet foods. Standard Operating Procedures and automated processes such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software serve critical roles for scalability of enterprise generally. Systematize, standardize and automate.