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First Contact: The Source of Customer Loyalty


With customers being smarter, more cost conscious, more product knowledgeable and more demanding, improving customer service has become a major focus within many businesses. In Customer Satisfaction is Worthless; Customer Loyalty is Priceless, author Jeffrey Gitomer contends the real solution is shifting the paradigm away from customer service to customer loyalty. This may be the first step, but the next step is to shift the focus away from loyal customers to loyal employees.

Should I Have My Company Mystery Shopped?


I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said to me, "Oh, you do Mystery Shopping; I always wanted to do that!" I think most people do find the thought of posing as a customer and reporting back on how they were treated, rather intriguing. But there is a lot more to it that skulking around in a trench coat and spy glass!

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder


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?.

What Do They Want Anyway?


You want customers. I want customers. We all want customers. And traffic alone is not enough. We need ?interested? customers. Customers ready to listen, ready to buy. So you may find yourself asking, what do they want anyway?.... and how can I get them to buy?

Your Actions Tell Your Clients How You Expect To Be Treated


There is a widely accepted principle of human behavior that goes something like this. "Your actions tell the world how you expect to be treated." Look all around you and you will find that the truth of this statement is as evident as the clothes you wear.

Are You Putting Technology Before Your Customers?


Which is more important the technology or the customer?

Astonish your Customers With These Customer Service Tips


Customer service today is getting worse. Win customers overand you build your business for life. Proven by the leaderin the industry -- Nordstrom's. Nordstrom's customerservice keeps improving and they continue to drive othersout of business because of it. Here are six ways you canthrill customers and snatch a larger market share from yourcompetitors.

To Complain and Win! - My Personal Recipe


Prime directive: Make sure your claim is reasonable! Otherwise, forget it.

Invalid Excuses for Poor Business Results - The Weather


Note to Kmart: It wasn?t about the weather

Oil Change Customer from Hell or Hoax; You Decide


Evacuation, "E-Vac" Oil System for Oil Changing

The Added Value - Is YOU!


If there was a restaurant in your town that was physically attractive and clean, had a pleasant variety of entrées on the menu, served food that was prepared in an attractive manner, and the service was outstanding--the maitre?d greeted you by name, remembered which was your favorite table, stopped by later to inquire about your needs and satisfaction, the waiters and waitresses bent over backwards to make your dinner a pleasurable experience and always treated you as if you were their most important patron--would you be willing to pay a little more than other restaurants charged?

RETAIL GREETERS: Sales Builders or Customer Turnoff?


Do you need greeters or should you avoid them? That is the perplexing question many retail organizations are struggling with today. Often touted in the press as the perennial example of the benefits to employing greeters,Walmart has hung on to its practice faithfully. But does it work and if so, will merely placing any warm body with a forced smile at the door to your store do the trick of converting entering customers into satisfied shoppers?

Sorry, No Customer Service After 4:00 P.M.


A few months ago, I wrote about ingenious styles of customer service that every business should know about, mostly because their employees were inflicting them on their customers.

How To Keep Your Customers Coming Back -- Understanding Customer Retention


Why do some businesses offer points, stamps or every tenth coffee for free?

How To Kick Your Customer Service Up A Notch!


Welcome to the inaugural issue of Human Tech Tips -- Tip #1. How do we take your customer service and kick it up a notch?

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