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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Some of the major examples included: Phone problems (long hold times, annoying hold music, getting disconnected, blind transfers, etc.) Employees that aren’t happy to see customers (rude, disaffected, unhappy, etc.)

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Kindle: The Backward Approach to Customers

Make or Break Moments

Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.&# It is rare that a company begins its life or expands its offerings by first asking the customer what they want or need. The article is about the incredible sales of the Kindle.

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Getting Past Ego to Reach Customers

Make or Break Moments

In one example in the book the wise one man on the peak tells the story of a once great company: “When I was younger, I worked for a very large and famous company. We provided a great service at a good price-the best in out industry. .&# “So what did you do?&# The truth was that we were not making our customers happy.&#

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Be Easy to Find: Use Your Name

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Share your examples here. I set up a Wordpress.com blog and with the exception of the $9.95 at Name Cheap to buy my name, it just cost me the time it took to put it together. So have your purchased your name as a URL? What have you done with it? I’d love any suggestions for how to make the site better.

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Marketing Drives Traffic: Sales People Make or Break the Outcome

Make or Break Moments

Here is a perfect example of marketing driving the traffic and a sales person dropping the ball. We only get one chance at a first impression and Leslie’s first impression clearly isn’t positive in this example. It is not the job of the prospect to buy it is the job of the seller to sell.

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Reinvention: Key to Long Term Success

Make or Break Moments

Have you looked at the possibility of reinventing what you offer your customers? I guarantee your customers needs have changed – have you? Apple is another example that Harvard Business Review wrote about in their article Reinventing your Business Model. is celebrating their 35th year in business.

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Just Say YES – Guide to Building Customer Relationships

Make or Break Moments

His example is saying yes to keep food on the table. In Alan Alda’s book “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed… and other things I’ve learned,&# he talks about saying yes no matter what just to keep active in your industry.