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181: Providing Quality Customer Service
The way you treat your customers will determine if your business is successful or not. If you ship orders late, cannot answer questions about your product, are rude or condescending or you can not update your website regularly,...

182: Why People Hate Cell Phone Companies
Cell phone companies have made a huge mistake in how they deal with their customers. They seem to be in it to make a quick buck instead of to build lasting customer relationships, and the first major player to understand this stands to earn a small fortune. Who will it be?...

183: The Importance of a Customer-Focused Vision
It takes commitment and an obsession about customers to win business. Over the years, my experiences have taught me that it is simple to create a customer-focused culture, but it certainly isn't easy. If a company gets it right, however, the customers and profits will be easy to attract and keep....

184: Little and Big Commitments
People who do not keep little commitments don't keep big ones either. Winning, profitable companies constantly inspire customer confidence by their actions, and always conduct business in a trustworthy manner. They keep their word. Commitments that are kept create repeat customers, and repeat customers create profit....

185: The Power of Delighting a Customer
A thoughtful gesture can delight a customer and result in enormous good will toward your product or service. I witnessed something spectacular that improved my philosophy about caring about customers. With one simple act, a colleague of mine created buzz that money could not buy!...

186: Customer Service: A Little Means A Lot
How a single employee can ruin a company's reputation....

187: Humor in Customer Service and How It Can Help Your Business
Now, wait a minute. You are not a stage comedian or an actor. Your job is to sell something, not put on a clown act. How does humor fit into customer service? And that's exactly why this works: Everybody thinks just like the above paragraph. Because everybody thinks that way, nobody uses humor to ease a customer transaction....

188: Building a Strong Customer Service Team
There are more and more demands being made of front line team members, and sometimes the pressure can be heard by your customer....

189: How to Identify With a Customer in Your Business Industry
No matter what industry you work in, this can be applied to your line of work, especially in the hospitality industry. Nearly half the jobs held at any given time are service positions. It's the way our economy works. The vital function of helping customers get the service and goods they want is pretty much everything that keeps the wheels going round....

190: How to Deal with a Hostile Customer
Any job which involves customer service will, before long, involve a few unpleasant encounters with at least one customer who has a problem about something. There is a notable difference between customers who have an understandable complaint, and those who seem to just seem to have a personal problem....