It is 2006, an exciting time to be alive. Our economy in Alberta, Canada is booming. There are oodles of employment opportunities. Businesses are sprouting up on every corner.

Where are you involved in this rodeo of life?

Who(read entire article)
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In Part 1, we discussed exceptional customer service, plus “A Bit More.”

We defined a customer as anyone with whom we have a relationship (paying customer, family, neighbour).

We met Master Electrician, Brent, who provides exceptional(read entire article)
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Here we are again to look at some more “A Bit More” principles of exceptional customer service.

You may be thinking, “What the heck is he talking about?”

If that is the case, please read, or re-read Part 1 and Part 2 of the thre(read entire article)
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I was an assistant manager for a major consumer electronics chain, and I was where you would expect an "assistant" manager to be, doing what you would expect an "assistant" manager to to do. I was on top of a ladder, less than ten minutes before(read entire article)
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“Service” is one of those wonderful, “Warm Fuzzy” words like “love” and “happiness.” They are easy to say and sound so good, but unless they are backed with real substance, they mean so little.

“Service” is what we do to impress and retain(read entire article)
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Introduction

Customer contact is essential in a fast paced business world. Many professionals and small businesses live off their customer contact but to many it is ad hoc and with too much strategy. Many still find it diff(read entire article)
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Cross-Selling is a great way to boost revenues and profits by gently persuading existing customers to purchase an additional product during service conversations.

There are ten really great reasons your CSR’s should make an effort to cross-s(read entire article)
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1. You didn't follow up after the first sale. After the sale you could have introduced your other product on the thank e-mail.

2. You didn't ship the product in the about of time you stated. If they needed it in a hurry and you didn't pr(read entire article)
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1. Customer service is all about customers’ needs first and your needs second.
If your customers expect a response from you in 24 hours and you always respond much later, that’s putting your needs first and their needs second.

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1. Stay in contact with customers on a regular basis. Offer them a free e-zine subscription. Ask customers if they want to be updated by e-mail when you make changes to your Web site. After every sale, follow-up with the customer to see if the(read entire article)
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1. Be Swift – When someone has an issue with your company, address it quickly. Promptness goes a long way in letting customers know you truly care about their business.

2. Go Deep – Don’t just give someone’s complaint surface t(read entire article)
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Just because a customer questions your price or a feature of your product DOESN’T mean that they aren’t interested in buying it! As a salesperson, you must learn the meaning behind your customers’ objections in order to respond appropriately and(read entire article)
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Wooing customers is a little bit like dating. No, you can't present the engagement ring on your first date! There's a two-way relationship that grows one step at a time before it leads to the church doors. You can't rush it... you can't skip it...(read entire article)
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Every customer looks for 3 special benefits when they do business with you. They may not specifically ask for these benefits. But you're losing sales if you don't automatically provide all 3.

1. Fast Results

Prospective customers may t(read entire article)
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You will always have more people that turn down your offer than actually buy. They might not have bought because of your price, payment options, or any other possible reason. You will just end up loosing all these potential lifetime customers.(read entire article)
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The purpose of business is to create and retain a customer.

Much has been written about customer orientation, customer relationship management (CRM), Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) metrics, Customer Centric organization models, customer reten(read entire article)
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Sure, all clients are different. They have different kinds of strengths, weaknesses, cultures and goals. Even what blocks their efficiency and growth (blind spots) is different. Davis, Kingsley & Company has conducted hundreds of interviews and(read entire article)
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Customer service is the pits, you say. You are not alone. One of the biggest gripes from consumers today is the poor service they receive at the hand of service providers. You need not be victimized by lousy service nor do you have to move heaven(read entire article)
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About 20 years ago while I worked for American Stores Company (now part of Albertson’s) I headed up a customer service program named “Smile and Speak Up.” Employees attended a two-hour customer service training class and then tried to be seen bein(read entire article)
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One can increase one customer’s satisfaction after an order has been placed, even though the customer is yet to receive their order thru the post.

Creation and satisfaction of customers

It happens with everyone. You go to ebay, you cho(read entire article)
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What gives? You have a stunning website with an audio intro and newsletter sign-up, but no one is buying from you. Maybe you’re wasting your time on the wrong target market or maybe you are sending the wrong message to your potential customers/cli(read entire article)
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Customers are demanding quality products and services again after the turnaround from the recession of the 1980s. They can no more be seduced into buying just anything through discounts and slick marketing methods. The goal in customer satisfactio(read entire article)
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According to a Forum Corporation survey of commercial customers lost by 14 major service and manufacturing companies:

15% found a better service/product

15% found a cheaper service/product

20% cited “lack of contact and individua(read entire article)
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With Some Tips on How to Respond

Tt has probably happened to you if you own your own online business. You get an email or even a phone call from someone who is upset or unhappy with this or that about your business. Most of us don’t really c(read entire article)
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How well do you look after your customers? Most companies probably think they do a good job, but the addition of technology into large, national call centers has caused many organizations to focus on technology solutions as opposed to people solu(read entire article)
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If you think customer relationship management is just a piece of software, you're dead wrong. Customer relationship management is about understanding your customers. It's about really knowing them as individuals, knowing what they mean to your b(read entire article)
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Most of business owners fail to effectively attract and retain lifetime customers. What they fail to realize is the key principles of relationship marketing, that converts potential customers into repeat clients.

To succeed in your bus(read entire article)
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I’ve recently been working with a small business close to where I live. It’s an accountancy practice. It’s a great little business. Super people, working very hard and really trying hard for their customers. However, every once in a while they(read entire article)
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Don’t scare away your customers by saying the wrong things Customers expect a certain kind of behaviour from companies and if we want to stay in business, it is our job as service providers or manufacturers to stand up to those expectations. Ther(read entire article)
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“Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company,” --Erwin Frand

During our recent weakened economy, many businesses have seen declining revenues and declining budgets. Declining budgets oft(read entire article)
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Those who are in the business, it might be a profession, a manufacturing industry or a service industry, building trust is the utmost factor.

If your consumer doesn’t have the faith in you, then you might as well shut shop now, cause eventua(read entire article)
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Let's be honest. Complaints are a reality of business. Every company, no matter how great, responsive, or caring, receives some number of complaints - email, phone calls, letters, blog posts, etc. It's inevitable; you can't keep all people happy a(read entire article)
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"Rank is an appointed position. Authority is an earned condition. Rank is decreed from above. Authority is conferred from below. Authority vanishes the moment those who bestow it stop believing, respecting, or trusting their appointed boss, though(read entire article)
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Want to be startled? Don't send a holiday card to one of your clients, but ask him, a week after New Year's, "Did you get my holiday card?"

"Why, sure," your client will say. "Thanks for that." What else can he say? He got dozens of holiday(read entire article)
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As a writer, editor, web designer, forum maven, etc. [boy, I sound multi-talented!] I try to give my clients a/k/a customers a little something extra whenever or wherever possible. No, not so that they take advantage of my kindness, rather to show(read entire article)
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What a lot of money we have been wasting on dealing with customer complaints.

Instead of dealing with them and attempting to satisfy the customer we should create a process that makes complaining so difficult then when customers complain the(read entire article)
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Charles Dickens began his book with the famous phrase, “It was the best of times and the worst of times.”

This applies to restaurants and to a lot of businesses, for that matter.

They can have great food or wonderful products that you’(read entire article)
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In 2002, there wasn’t much interest for Kindness in business, and some business people would question, “What does kindness have to do with business, anyway?” Is this a for real question or just to prove a point? Or perhaps they couldn’t figure out(read entire article)
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Over the years I have used thank you’s to cultivate more futile ground for business. Although not everyone mines for gold this way there are many who understand the value of being pleasant and letting everyone know who you are and what you do. Whe(read entire article)
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However, in the world of business, this cliché may not necessarily be true. Sometimes it can be more like ‘Out of Site, Out of Mind’.

Your existing clients are your most important business assets. They are already aware of the exceptional pr(read entire article)
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The Call Center world is an intense pressure-driven environment continually being shaped by pressure to ensure steady profitability and a secure competitive advantage.

Accountability and a basic fundamental understanding of (read entire article)
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