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Customer Service Blogs to check out

Make or Break Moments

He offers up: Amazingserviceguy By Kevin Stirz Business Is Personal By Mark Riffey Customers Rock! By Becky Carroll CustServ By Meikah Delid Maximum Customer Experience By Kelly Erickson People2People Service By Maria Palma QA QnA By Tom Vander Well Return Customer By Joe Rawlinson (Joe and I both started customer service blogs in April 2005.)

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Walmart’s dismal customer service scores drive customers away

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Since 2007, Walmart department and discount stores repeatedly have been labeled with the dubious distinction of having the “worst customer service in America.” As a supermarket, the company didn’t do much better; scoring a 72 out of 100 rating and similarly low scores since 2005. Don’t be negative.

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Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

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There’s hardly a moment when someone isn’t consulting Google to learn more about a product, a person, or a service. While the digital realm can indeed help all of us to buy smarter, perform better, and be better educated, can it ever replace a human at the hub of customer service? Treat the customer with respect.

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August 7th Treasure Your Customers day

Make or Break Moments

I first learned about Treasure your Customer Day from Entrepreneur magazine in 2006. Here is a blurb from a blog written in 2005 about Treasuring your Customers written by Kirsten Osolind : August 7 marks “Treasure Your Customers Day.&# But it certainly didn’t start there.

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‘Social listening’ can help businesses become more effective

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Michael Dell’s “direct-to customer-heritage” starts with training. At the Social Media and Communities University, associates are fully trained and then empowered to listen and focus – transforming “online ranters into ravers.” Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

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Service with a snarl: What to look for and how to avoid it

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No doubt we have all been victims of bad customer service, and no doubt we have left companies and moved on to their competition because the experience, at least in our own eyes for the moment, had been intolerable. How is the customer treated? Is the service we expect now provided? Is there an apology for making us wait?

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Your Web Site has gone - Reality!

Catch Friday

At the time I was on a train from London to Colchester to see my lawyer, and thought I would not get on Godaddy to the evening. I have been with Godaddy since 2005, and loved there 24 hour service and technical staff, but what the heck had happened and what kind of customer service is this?

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