outstanding customer service


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How Mobile Friendly is Your Brand?

So what’s your story? We’ve been talking about all the great qualities that mobile technologies possess, but haven’t gotten down to the most important factor to consider when looking at what mobile can do for you as a business. Mobile provides a great opportunity to tell your story. It allows…


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How Much is Good Customer Service Worth to Your Business?

How much money do you invest to get a new customer?  Like many business owners, you make a significant investment in bringing in new customers. If you read  business magazines you are always seeing articles about  marketing, target marketing, and lead generation.  These topics are getting a lot of press…


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How to Take Care of the Ridiculous Customer

Previously, I’ve talked about the L.E.A.R. method for helping upset customers. L – Listen and don’t interrupt E – Empathize with something like, “I can understand why you’re upset.  I would be upset too.” A – Ask – What can I do to make you happy? R – Resolve –…


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Now That’s Customer Service

For a lot of people, fountain pens are a thing of the past, old fashioned and out of date. For many more, they are the preferred writing utensil. And, then there are those who just don’t know because they’ve never had the privilege of writing with a really nice fountain…


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31 Days And Counting…Still No Candles

Customer service is an important part of every business.   Being a business owner gives most of us a whole different perspective on how things the way things work inside a business and can sometimes make us more understanding and sometimes a little less so.  Recently, an offer came through from…


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Does Your Training Support You Goals?

This is an excerpt from the book “WAYMISH Why Are You Making It So Hard For Me To Give You My Money?”   We introduce a supermarket cashier to her job by showing her how to scan, how to handle change, checks, credit cards, returns and other necessary basic routines.  We…


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To Increase Word-of-Mouth…Give’em Something to Talk About!

In a recent issue Prospecting Weekly, I dared you to become “legendary.” To be legendary is to become the “stuff that tales are made from.” This is a theme that warrants further attention. In my book Prospect & Flourish, I devote an entire chapter to the subject of outstanding service….