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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01 by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 01, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Potential Customer just Walked – How Much did it cost you.

Make or Break Moments

I have often theorized the importance of building relationships with customers and now a recent survey puts dollars to the sense of that theory. I learned today from CustServ that the cost of lost customers equals 338.5 What causes customers to walk and take their business to the competition? BILLION a year !

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Look for the Pattern You Can't Ignore

Make or Break Moments

We need to do the same thing with our customers. Of course that means we have to engage them in conversation – exit interviews – follow up surveys or phone calls to ask about the service and experience and then listen for patterns. Customer complaints are another great place to look for patterns.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service in Different.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. What interested me was how the importance of customer service varied in different industries. What have you noticed about service in countries besides the United States? Both factors are probably at play here.

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Shrug Off Apathy: Employee's Indifference a Business Killer

Make or Break Moments

How can we ever hope to build relationships with our customers if our front-line employees shower them with a full dose of indifference? Steve goes on to say: In one survey, 68 percent of customers said they quit doing business with a company because of perceived indifference towards them as customers.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Pet Peeves

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The four examples above are good examples of broad categories of customer service frustrations. What are your customer service pet peeves? Which of the pet peeves above really bother you?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » NJ toll road collectors lack.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Toll collectors need to have customer service training also. They need to be hired because they can not only do the job, but be able to deal with the customers – just like any other consumer oriented position.