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Take Control of Your Customer Service with These 6 Tips

Success

Quality customer service is your competitive edge. Everyone can have similar products or services, but what they can’t replicate is your people, how your employees treat your customers and how your customers feel when they are doing business with you. Their first belief is that service is important.

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Surprise! Your Customer Service Ain’t All That.

Tips From T. Marie

A recent article on Small Business Trends explains that although you may believe you and your business are providing excellent customer service, chances are your customers/clients aren’t exactly on the same page. Obviously, as business owners we tend to be biased about the delivery of good customer service.

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Infographic: Improving Customer Service

The Small Business Blog

This excellent infographic from GetApp has some great ideas for any business wanting to improve their customer service. According to their figures, poor customer service costs $338.5 Business Infographics customer care Customer Service infographic' Billion annually.

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12 Customer Service Lessons

Make or Break Moments

Although I don’t believe there were any huge new “ah ha&# moments, the list is a good one that focuses on the importance and value of building relationships with customers.

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Customer Service Still Number One

Make or Break Moments

The monthly report from E-zine Articles just arrived in my email. Once again – the number one article for the month is one I wrote a few years ago entitled How Do You Define Customer Service. I wrote the article before the economy took a turn for the interesting, when companies were still staffed and [.].

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It’s good to talk – Customer service solutions for SMEs

The Small Business Blog

A report issued this month by Redshift showed that 43% of consumers regularly abandon their online shopping carts and over half do so because there was no support from a customer service assistant. These statistics highlight the importance of offline engagement to support online activity.

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The Benefits of Customer Service Training

Small Business CEO

Customer service expert Shep Hyken wrote in one of his articlesCustomer service is not a department. When you utilise good quality customer service throughout the entirety of an organisation– from the recent hires to the CEO – you can improve the way that every element of the operation impacts the customer.