May 23, 2012

Improving the Customer’s Experience and Loyalty: 4 Dynamic and Proven Steps

Improving the Customer’s Experience and Loyalty: 4 Dynamic and Proven Steps

by Rick A Conlow

Who hasn’t been served by a crabby customer service representative lately? It’s almost as if we expect lousy service and so we do little about it. Research shows that 82% of the reasons customers leave is because of discourteous rude employees and the inept handling of problems. What can a company do today to begin to change this?

Companies today have customer loyalty issues because their employees don’t like their jobs. Too many employees are treated poorly and aren’t trained effectively. [Read more...]

How Enterprise Cross-Sell Can Improve Customer Service

How Enterprise Cross-Sell Can Improve Customer Service

By Kristie K Heinemann
Consumers' trust in the financial industry has been shaken. Banks need to be able to make their customers feel comfortable with their banking experience and offer them products that can be interwoven into the fabric of their day-to-day activities.

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Empathy Statements for Customer Service Representatives

Empathy Statements for Customer Service Representatives
By Chris Saliba

Showing empathy to customers takes more than words, it also takes imagination. It's not enough to utter a few well meant clichés, hoping this will placate an upset or angry customer. People working in customer service need to make the mental stretch and try to imagine what it is like to travel in the customer's shoes.
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Telephone Customer Service – It Starts With A Smile!

Telephone Customer Service – It Starts With A Smile!

By Robbie Negron

Too many times having to talk to a customer service representative over the phone is a dreadful experience that we would rather not have to do. So many people now look to e-mailing or for the button to open a live chat, not necessarily because it's improved technology, rather it is because they do not want to have to deal with the unpleasant experience of speaking to someone over the phone.
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Customer Service Personnel – What to Look For When Hiring

Customer Service Personnel – What to Look For When Hiring
By Bob Davis-Mayo

Being a customer service representative is not in everyone's DNA. Some people simply are not in the personal and professional mental space to serve customers. Some are interpersonally incompetent. Others lack emotional awareness. Still others are working out personal issues that block professional balance. You want to avoid hiring these people–for the good of everyone, including them.
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10 Best Practices in Customer Service

10 Best Practices in Customer Service 
By Matt Hallaran
How have your sales been doing? Are you satisfied with your client participation? How about the other way around? Do you know if they're happy with your service? What are you doing to keep them nearby? Do you address their concerns on time? These are a few questions you can begin to ask yourself if you want to redirect your goals and of course make improvements. Where does great customer service begin? And how?

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Live Chat Software – The Business Benefits

Live Chat Software – The Business Benefits
By Steven Henty
Live chat software is a great tool for businesses of all types and sizes to boost their online sales and enhance the quality of their customer service.

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5 Core Strengths of a Customer Service Representative

5 Core Strengths of a Customer Service Representative
By Bob Davis-Mayo
How does a service professional summon genuine, confident and consistent delivery of excellent customer service time after time, call after call, email after email?

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Best Business Practices: Balancing Customer Service With Efficiency

Best Business Practices: Balancing Customer Service With Efficiency
By Tom Readers

Tools such as a Virtual Assistant or Interactive Voice Response system are crucial in increasing the efficiency of your business, but how customer service representatives deal with clients is just as important. Dealing quickly with calls is efficient business practice, but it is vital that customers should never feel rushed.

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Defining the Role of a Customer Service Representative to Improve Customer Service Excellence

Defining the Role of a Customer Service Representative to Improve Customer Service Excellence

By Kate Tammemagi

Every Company now appreciates the need for Customer service excellence, and the importance of this in achieving Customer loyalty. But how do you ensure that your Customer Service personnel will achieve excellence in every interaction with their Customers?

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Customer Service Jobs – How To Succeed In Customer Service

Customer Service Jobs – How To Succeed In Customer Service
By Silas Reed

Customer service jobs, receptionist jobs or even call center jobs are often not given their due importance. This is quite unfortunate because, customer service jobs are the lifeblood of any corporation or concern. If you dont tend to customers and take their feedback seriously, then you lose them!

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5 Key Roles of a Customer Service Representative

5 Key Roles of a Customer Service Representative
By Jennie Gandhi

Customer service is a field of business where exclusive service is provided to customers based on their requirements before, during, and after a purchase. The base strength of customers purely depends on the kind of service they receive from any firm or enterprise. It is also a known fact that customers are the driving force of any business and if they don't remain intact then the credibility and profitability reduces drastically.

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