Tips From T. Marie

APRIL 17, 2024

Understanding the Role of a CRM At its core, a CRM system helps manage interactions with current and potential customers. It’s designed to streamline processes, build customer relationships, enhance sales, and improve customer service. Are Services Like SendFox and Mailchimp CRMs?

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It can save time and money and ultimately help people become more productive by handling monotonous tasks. Here’s how: Temperature and Light Control : With IoT-enabled products like thermostats and “responsive” lighting rules, AI can automatically adjust the temperature or light when someone enters a room.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Are these positions truly up to par with their in-office counterparts in terms of compensation and career progression? This in-depth examination peels back the layers of remote work, looking beyond the myths to reveal the actionable strategies that empower sustained productivity and growth without stepping foot outside the door.

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MAY 22, 2024

That’s not your imagination—it’s the rise of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), which is shaking up the way we work, connect, and create. One example is a surgeon honing their technique on a virtual patient, or a customer service rep navigating challenging scenarios. Remember the Pokémon Go craze?

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Tips From T. Marie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The beauty of providing virtual assistant services lies in the multitude of paths you can choose, and the diverse tasks people are hiring for make landing a role highly probable. Customer Relations Services: Put your people skills to work by assisting clients in delivering exceptional customer service that leaves their customers delighted.

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Recruit CRM

AUGUST 20, 2021

Greg Taylor, Managing member of Xactly by GTE says, "The product is so easy to use and is backed by easy to find videos of each component which allows for ongoing training and renewal of knowledge.what makes them historically valued in my mind is their amazing customer service. I hope I can get my company to their level."

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

So it’s up to you to effectively manage your time amidst a sea of competing interests. When you wake up each morning, use the time management strategy of deciding then and there what you want to do with that day. The natural tendency is to major in minors and clear up small things first. Visualize your daily goals.

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Success

JUNE 30, 2021

Surveyed customers have only one question to answer. “On On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend [company name, product, or service] to a friend or colleague?”. You may measure consumer NPS for individual products, customer service experience or even employee satisfaction easily and succinctly.

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Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

According to Duarte, the classic three-part story structure is: Set up the hero—a likable, but flawed, individual—and the challenge they must face. Applied to business, this means we want to support entrepreneurs whom we identify as those heroes, or products that help its customers be that hero. The hero emerges, transformed.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. Choose a product or service. Following your passion vs. the technical approach Physical or digital products? Or a service? As little as a weekend to set up a website.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Nicole talks about the art of delegation, building a support system, being a mompreneur, and unlocking your productivity potential. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. Nicole, welcome to the show. I’m excited to be here.

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Productivityist

JULY 2, 2021

You can be working long days and a great deal of work to do, but not being productive with it at all. Being productive means working smarter, more efficiently, and moving things forward. Here are 9 highly effective traits of a successful manager that will increase your productivity in no time. Schedule an administration day .

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

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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Success

AUGUST 3, 2021

In an office setting, this insight can explain why some collaborators need more time to process information than others, why some people monopolize meetings, and how to reach the employees who never speak up. This makes Twos caring leaders and excellent customer service reps, but can also hinder efficiency. Type Two: The Helper.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

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. In fact, retaining current customers can be more cost-effective as no outgoings are necessary to market and sell to them. keep it up.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Boyfriends, husbands, and significant others complained about flowers not arriving, damaged products, hundreds of botched deliveries, and an acute shortage of customer service personnel. Only a few dissatisfied customers ever received an answer on that ominous February 14th.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Boyfriends, husbands, and significant others complained about flowers not arriving, damaged products, hundreds of botched deliveries, and an acute shortage of customer service personnel. Only a few dissatisfied customers ever received an answer on that ominous February 14th.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The fast paced world of Twitter, Facebook, and Yelp combined with the technological advances of smart phones, interactive websites, and emails enable millions of users to make better informed decisions than ever before possible. After all, a 24 hour turn-around period to answer an email is considered standard. Listen to the problem.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2013

So here we are in the midst of football season, and wherever I sit to watch a game, invariably the question comes up as to whether offense or defense is more important? Of course, in football every yard gained by the offense means the defense has given that yard up, yet it is the offense who has to score. photo by: Ed Yourdon.

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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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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 27, 2017

Basically, the do / build method means that you block time for ‘doing’ tasks, such as answering emails, attending meetings or writing reports, and you block time for ‘building’ tasks such as training, brainstorming, networking or strategic thinking. Would a call or email exchange be more time effective?

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Shopping for products and services are no longer defined by the hours between 9:00 a.m. The Internet provides convenient and easy access to product information 24 hours a day. Regardless of how customers choose their shopping venues, outstanding customer service still sets organizations apart from their competition.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 24, 2015

After all, multi-tasking is not what it’s all cracked up to be. Do you regularly multi-task, such as reading emails while someone is talking to you on the telephone? Bottom line: We can actually be less effective, create mistakes, feel less happy and be less customer-service oriented when we multi-task. Joan Burge.

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MAY 23, 2011

Projecting the right attitude when delivering exceptional customer service makes a big difference. My initial impression most likely will be affected by the friendliness and kindness of the customer service agent; whether it is my first experience on the phone, by email, or in person.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 20, 2012

  I was hit by the lack of customer service too, but we can certainly learn from this story; so that is what I'm going to share today. Provide Customer Service Even If The Service You Are Providing is No Cost.   They gave one business day to come up with a plan.  iTunes [link].

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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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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

DECEMBER 24, 2023

She equips leaders, employees and organizations to clearly define goals and create a roadmap to achieving them, which allows for better alignment with corporate culture, leading to increased productivity and profitability. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Amazon.com’s newest customer service facility opened on Friday with a fanfare of speeches and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new 70,000 square-foot center in Kinetic Park, West Virginia was described as a “perfect fit” by Vice President of Amazon customer service Tom Weiland.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 3, 2013

By definition, customer service is what you offer an individual before, during and after a transaction. While this concept seems simple enough, truly exceptional customer service is getting harder to find. The difference is that the personal connection you make with prospective customers adds value to your brand.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 4, 2017

We’ve provided several key ways to build customer loyalty and help make your key customers into regulars. Making customers feel special. A first important way to build loyalty with your customers is to make them feel special. Small businesses also usually go hand in hand with local business and local customers.

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Success

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Maria quit her job as a project manager two years ago to follow her dreams of starting her own business, a decision she actually made after picking up a copy of SUCCESS magazine. . I promise, once you decide that you are no longer willing to compete on price alone, your world (and your business) will open up. Get clear on your mission.

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APRIL 28, 2011

We bring our own recyclable grocery bags to food markets, we use less paper in our offices, we adjust our office lighting, we use more environmentally friendly detergents to wash our clothes, and most of us are willing to spend more for “green&# products and packaging. Let’s face it; it’s all part of customer service.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Customers are definitely interested in low competitive prices, but if you’re a small to medium company, there’s going to be a problem competing with the large companies, so the focus is going to have to fall on customer service if you’re going to survive. Generic email messages do not inspire customer loyalty.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 6, 2010

While ten years ago, managing email could have been a secondary consideration, today it is absolutely vital to keep customers and clients in the loop through rapid, prompt email support. Service businesses will always need to devote more time to emails than product-based businesses.

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Small Business CEO

AUGUST 19, 2010

Technology companies are, unfortunately, almost as well known for having poor customer service as they are for their actual products. Small business expert Anita Campbell cited poor customer service for web apps as one of three key issues that needs to be overcome before cloud apps can become ubiquitous in small businesses.

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JUNE 5, 2012

It’s not that we need surveys to show which organizations step out of the box to ensure a concierge level of excellence so coveted by consumers; organizations like Zappos, Amazon, and Nordstrom essentially offer everyone “fantastic” service. In 2011, over 72.6 Clearly state F.A.Q.’s photo by: Mike Miley.

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