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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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Don’t cut the customer service budget

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The economy leaves customer service budgets strained, and more than one company has trimmed their services back, but according to the Institute of Customer Service, chief executive Jo Causon, quality service is even more important in times like this. So how has Pasley done since the economic crunch?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Week celebrates.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The International Customer Association began Customer Service Week in 1988, and in 1992 Congress proclaimed Customer Service Week a nationally recognized event.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer service technology can.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The software is able to predict how interested a customer is in one’s product and when to stop, within a minute if a customer is getting angry; the computer will then suggest the representative end the call.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Working on customer service skills

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The customer service representative standing at the kiosk in the lobby of the bank had been speaking to a customer about a “Power of Attorney&# and its relevance to her aged parent.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Accountability in customer service

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Without accountability our customer service winds up with the grim consequences of empty promises, excuses and blaming others; most likely the customers. If I shop at Walmart for a pair of denim.

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Ep 227: David Karandish on Automation in the Workplace, Energy Management, and the Executive Assistant Partnership

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He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for $960m. Capacity is a support automation platform that uses AI to deflect emails, calls, and tickets so internal and external support teams can spend more time doing their best work.