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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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Three Little Words for 2010

Make or Break Moments

Last year I selected three words, which were Bite, Charge and Follow-Up. This year Chris has selected Eco-systems, Owners and Kings to focus on for 2010. Just like the Italian alleyway pictured above, I need to ensure that my focus is narrow, razor sharp, niched to a specific client/a specific service. And I was successful!

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

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. 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. But, what makes good customer service? keep it up.

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Real Time Customer Reviews Top 2010 Trend

Make or Break Moments

Companies need to quickly get on board with reading what is being said about them on line – hopefully it is ALL GOOD – but on the off chance it isn’t, Twitter will become the fastest, easiest, most visible way for companies to “nip it in the bud&# and show consumers they are on top of their customer service.

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Raise your hand if you like automated phone message systems…

ProAssisting Blog

I know that they ask for this information—account numbers, PINS, last 4 digits of your social security number—so that the representative has your account or profile pulled up when they take your call but based on my experience 98% of the time, I have to repeat that information to them anyway… just ridiculous.

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Be Positive About Your Customer Service Issues

Professional Assistant Blog

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Imagine how much more receptive the customer service representative would be if you tried to deal with your issue in a more positive manner. How would you feel?

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Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses?

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Budget 2010 – The Saviour for Small Businesses? by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 24, 2010 Today, Alistair Darling revealed the budget for the coming year. State-controlled banks would offer up to £47 billion in loans to SME’s in the next year. Not policy.

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