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What Makes Good Customer Service?

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Good customer service is vital to success. Research from Qualtrics XM Institute indicates that 76% of customers will trust a company with strong customer service. Compare that with only 40% of customers trusting a company with poor service. The Basics of Good Customer Service.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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I know of a company that enhances first impressions by having customized welcome signs reserving the best parking spots for client visits. Another one shows welcome videos, tailor-made for a new client, to begin the first meeting. In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S.

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Consumer Reports says Apple does customer service better

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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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Amazon.com still a leader in customer service

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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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Can your business measure up on customer service?

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The 2011 Temkin Experience Ratings surveyed 6,000 different consumers from 143 different companies which included retailers, banks, hotels, and financial institutions. So what makes a company measure up on customer service? Kohl’s uses great value, savings, and value messages to amp up their customer service promises.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Week celebrates.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The International Customer Association began Customer Service Week in 1988, and in 1992 Congress proclaimed Customer Service Week a nationally recognized event.

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“To Serve Man” – a critical look at customer service

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and brought up some interesting points about customer service and the lack thereof. Slater became a sort of folk hero of customer service contempt by more than 200,000 people on his Facebook’s fan page. People are fed up with poor customer service and customer service departments.