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Take lessons from the leaders in customer service

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There is no relaxing elevator music where I can work until an agent answers; instead I’m forced to listen to a litany of advertisements offering me more services that might very well call me back to this same maze of customer service mediocrity. So what makes Zappos.com a leader in customer service?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Impact of poor customer service.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. According to The Australian , the company now plans to spend $100 million over the next four years to improve their customer service. Brookes also plans to equip 65 stores with 4,000 touch screen registers.

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Tastes Like NOTHING

Make or Break Moments

Jenni and I looked at each other and thought – okay here is a product with no comparison so you are breaking ground. It has a name that can’t be pronouced correctly without assistance. If you wanted to leave a first impression with your customer about a new product would you say it’s like NOTHING?

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Customer Relationships: Not Something You Can Set and Forget

Make or Break Moments

Add to that the fact that I hadn’t exercised since Reagan was President – it was a pretty tame routine by all standards of comparison. As a customer – it isn’t my speciality, so I don’t question, I just continue on. The company didn’t come to the customer.

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Consumers willing to pay more for good service

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A recent survey conducted by American Express shows Americans demanding better customer service as compared to last year. Statistics showed 70 percent of consumers willing to spend 13 percent more for “WOW&# service as compared to 2010 when only 55 percent of consumers were only willing to spend 9 percent more.

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Give customers what they want

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Most complaints were about higher fares, higher prices, and how customers overwhelmingly feel they are getting less for their money. travelers are generally disgruntled over the lack of integrity and the lack of customer service. travelers are generally disgruntled over the lack of integrity and the lack of customer service.

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Benchmarking Customer Expectations - What’s the Right Yardstick?

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Is that the right comparison? Your customers, whether they are consumers or businesses, rarely measure you against others in your industry. A customer’s last memory of service is rarely another organization of your type. For business to business companies, the comparisons may be different but they still happen. *