Tag: customer
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Here are Some Trends That Will Shape Customer Service
Real quick: in your lifetime, think of the changes you’ve seen to handling the customer experience. If you’ve worked in the area for any length of time, then you’ve probably seen a lot. Traditional channels of customer support, such as phone-based and face-to-face models, are still in use today; however, many newer, technological-oriented methods are…
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Some Tips for Staying Positive in Customer Service
I speak from experience when I say working in customer service can be challenging—and I’m sure you know this too. Most days are fine, but every so often, the job will wear you down. So how can you maintain the all-important positive attitude needed to help with the customer experience? Here are some tips to…
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Turning a Customer Complaint Into an Opportunity
No matter how long you work in customer service, be it a few months or many years, you will at some point deal with a customer complaint. It’s important to point out that these complaints won’t take the form of a “foaming at the mouth” type complaint, but instead will be rational and (hopefully) reasonable.…
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How to Use Positive Language in Customer Service
You probably have some inkling of this concept, but language, and words, are very powerful things. The way we say a particular phrase to someone can make all the difference in how it is received. Simply changing one word can mean someone becomes angry, or someone becomes happy. In the customer service arena, how can…
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Handling the Customer Experience on Social Media: Twitter
Since the internet began, people ranging from everyday Joes to celebrities, shared their thoughts and feelings through various blogging sites, such as Blogspot, Live Journal and Diary Land. Then came Twitter, and changed the blogging game forever. In the past, blog posts could actually be mini dissertations, but Twitter forces you to say what you…
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Just What Exactly is Good Customer Service?
This blog is devoted to helping you and your company sharpen your customer service skills. We talk a lot about empathy, and positive language, as well as various other skills needed to excel in the highly competitive customer experience arena. But let’s step back for a moment, and get back to basics, by asking ourselves…
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Empathy is Your Friend: See It Their Way
You don’t need to work in customer service for very long before you run into a customer complaint or issue. How you deal with these issues defines not only your businesses’ sales and bottom line, but its reputation as well. Numerous customer service experts and blogs, including this one, have said using empathy is one…
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More Excellent Tips to Help Retain Customers
In a previous blog post, I talked about the importance of customer retention—that is, once you have created a new customer, of actually retaining them and their business. I went on to give three strategies to help with this, such as stroking a customer’s ego and sharing their values. Here are some more tips to…
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Three Excellent Tips to Help With Customer Retention
Customer retention is an integral part of the customer experience. It’s one thing to create a new customer, but it’s whole other ball game actually retaining them. It’s just as crucial to retain customers as create them, because if you don’t, how will your business grow? Here are three tips to help you retain customers.…
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Motivating Your Employees to Provide Good Customer Service
You’re passionate about delivering excellent customer service, and you strive to do so everyday. Yet, some of your employees may not be on board with this mission, for whatever reason. They may not have the tools necessary to provide sterling customer service, or they may flat out not care. How do you handle these situations?…