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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

November and December tend to be the months that most employees take vacations, meaning they don’t typically have the manpower to onboard new employees as effectively as they would starting the first week of January when everyone returns to the office.” Data speaks louder than subjective summaries of your work.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

If you have seen the movie Ramen Girl (and even if you haven’t!), The parallels he draws between passionate cooking and customer service will be something you will noodle on for awhile. Patterson, of the book Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers. It was a turning point.

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MARCH 14, 2014

Facebook gives organizations the opportunity to “WOW” customers with their human and approachable touch so important to building business, loyalty, and the development of a company’s brand. Recruiting talented employees to enhance customer service Happy employees make for motivated people who want to deliver.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Centralized call centers receive and transmit an enormous volume of telephone requests daily, with the purpose of collecting and handling information, ranging from product inquiries, questions about transactions, and customer service. So who are the most successful customer service representatives and how is that achieved?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Her blend of empathetic customer service and social media marketing saw it grow faster than she could have imagined, and she added a skin care line and two more clinics in Atlanta and Dallas. She’d been building a customer base for years while providing aesthetic medicine treatments. Social media has its moments.

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APRIL 28, 2014

Tax season is finally over, and those economic gray hairs have been remanded back to the colorists at our hair salons, but budget cuts continue to show a significant decline in the Internal Revenue Service to the American public. In the “intolerable level of public service,” there were 15.4 Are they still on hold?

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AUGUST 11, 2013

When searching for the best customer service personnel, integrity, mutual respect, innovation with a mixture of creativity and the ability to have fun and like what they do catapults these valuable employees to the top of the list. Still what guest wouldn’t tell the story to her friends over cocktails and dinner?

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JULY 31, 2013

Happy employees make for motivated people who want to deliver the best customer service they can to assist consumers and clients. Organizations need to be transparent, for the more that is shared with the staff, the more opportunities there will be to iron out the problems and move ahead with new ideas to make better choices.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Maria Smith worked as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, and now she helps leaders, employees, and organizations understand the science and benefits of goal-setting. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes!

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APRIL 22, 2013

With the convenience of online browsing, the possibilities are endless, but how will our online retailers handle customer service? The customer service representative was exceptional and spent the time trying to figure out what replacement cushions would have the best result. And so the shopping begins.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Since 2007, Walmart department and discount stores repeatedly have been labeled with the dubious distinction of having the “worst customer service in America.” As a supermarket, the company didn’t do much better; scoring a 72 out of 100 rating and similarly low scores since 2005. Don’t be negative.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

This week was a drama-filled example of a customer “gone wild” when an incredibly frustrated customer service recording from Reddit was made public on YouTube. Was the customer service rule at the company never to hang up on anyone or be fired?

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APRIL 11, 2012

This past Valentine’s Day, Washington Post’s Melissa Bell stated, “Love hath no fury like a flower customer scoffed.” ” It seems a popular wire service 1-800-Flowers failed to deliver bouquets for many customers creating a plethora of Twitter and Facebook complaints with the fervor of an inevitable doom.

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APRIL 10, 2012

This past Valentine’s Day, Washington Post’s Melissa Bell stated, “Love hath no fury like a flower customer scoffed.” ” It seems a popular wire service 1-800-Flowers failed to deliver bouquets for many customers creating a plethora of Twitter and Facebook complaints with the fervor of an inevitable doom.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

There’s hardly a moment when someone isn’t consulting Google to learn more about a product, a person, or a service. While the digital realm can indeed help all of us to buy smarter, perform better, and be better educated, can it ever replace a human at the hub of customer service?

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Be sure to check out the book Sage mentions in this episode -> The 29-Hour Work Day ) LEADERSHIP QUOTE When you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes!

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MARCH 28, 2014

Perhaps the most repeated complaint when having to deal with poor customer service is the need to keep calling back when something is wrong with a product. Haven’t we all formed some bad initial impressions quicker than good ones, or haven’t we stereotyped situations or people before ever realizing the good attributes?

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JANUARY 28, 2024

With a deep respect for the role of Executive Assistants, Ellen also partners with organizations and executives to design robust career pathways that foster growth and development in this vital profession. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes!

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AUGUST 14, 2012

It’s no exaggeration that most of us have become truly frustrated by poor customer service at least once in our lives. We dream of screaming, yelling, and throwing defective products over a steep cliff, but that still doesn’t take care of our economic loss, lack of convenience, or a gap in productivity.

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MAY 21, 2013

No doubt, it has been a tough week for customer service. Internal Revenue Service acting agency head, Steven T. Miller who is resigning from his post stated earlier this week: “I can say generally, we provided horrible customer service. A popular solution is to take it to social media.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Although a customer service agent might be overheard saying they prefer to be in the background when it comes to sales positions, the talents of customer service representatives also take a paramount position in successful sales and marketing. And isn’t that what a customer needs?

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APRIL 10, 2013

The Customer Service Survival Kit was written by Richard S. Gallagher, a practicing psychotherapist and the author of many customer service books who has trained over 20,000 people on how to handle the most daunting situations with customers while improving their confidence and an organization’s customer relations.

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JUNE 14, 2013

So are there different levels of service for credit card customers depending on one’s credit and past financial history? Unfortunately some credit card companies rate the effectiveness of their customer service representatives by how quickly they can get the consumer off the phone, and then onto the next.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 30, 2023

LEADERSHIP QUOTE Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. The company has grown organically to a team of 24 employees. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes! That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

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MAY 6, 2013

The ultimate success of a company is predicated on exceptional customer service experiences. For post-sales service, Consumer Reports ranked Apple Customer Service ahead of other companies for best PC tech support with the company scoring an 86 out of a possible 100 points. P PRESENT. L LISTEN.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Andrea talks about her role supporting eight executives, and the additional roles she has in her organization, how she manages the workload, and tips for making an impact on company culture. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes!

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JUNE 4, 2023

Chynna is the founder of Matriarch Made Development, a consulting firm that helps organizations develop administrative teams. ezCater’s simple-to-use platform provides a network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, business-grade reliability, food spend management tools, and 24/7 support from their highly trained customer service team.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

In Great Britain, Mary Portas used to help failing businesses get back on the right path, but now she has changed sides and stars in a customer service reality show. Portas thinks that Britain has the worst customer service, and customers have never had it so bad.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Best Buy just can’t get it right, and customers continue to complain. Even the company’s promotion on used videos this weekend piled up consumer complaints as customers couldn’t find what they wanted in either the stores or online. It was impossible to deal with Best Buy’s customer service.

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MAY 16, 2011

In order to make customers happy, we need to be sure our employees are happy, and there is no better way to uphold and maintain a sustainable strategy than by being an excellent role model. The experiences however, remind me of what world-class service can offer. World-class customer service listened to what I had to say.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Jared is also a TED speaker, 3x award-winning author, and USA Today’s “Most Connected Millennial” who has helped organize hundreds of events for over 30,000 attendees. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes! Jared Kleinert is the Founder/CEO of Offsite.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

There’s nothing more stimulating to get me to pull out my credit card and make a purchase than a particular customer service person who just has that “WOW’ affect. When he speaks to us he doesn’t use, “er, um, or “uh&# and he neither shouts nor mumbles. That “WOW&# agent is prepared.

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MAY 21, 2012

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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DECEMBER 16, 2011

In a global survey, Accenture wrote about deteriorating customer service and how most of us have at least switched one of our own service providers because we were displeased that our expectations had not been met. The consumer no longer will deal with that organization, and the company has lost a customer.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Most customers who feel they have been the recipients of poor customer service will never vocalize their feelings to a particular organization. So what are some of the more obvious signs of poor customer service that silently drive customers away? Managers ignore customers. Rude employees.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Every day we see customer service in action. Those are the customer experiences we seem to remember the best. Some companies have consistently provided exemplary customer service, and obviously it’s hard to replicate because those experiences and attitudes are what makes these organizations stand out from the crowd.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Peter Shankman is an author and frequent customer service blogger who has an impressive 100.000 Twitter followers, so the other day he used an experience to allegedly show how companies treat their good clients. I don’t eat meat.). So guess what? photo credit: missmeng.

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