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4 Customer Service Trends to Boost your Business

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jeff Mowatt When organizations invite me to speak at their conferences or train their team members, we start with trends that are impacting their customer relationships. Here are four customer service trends along with some tips for capitalizing on them to boost your business. Good service is wallpaper.

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Two Tales of Customer Service

Increase Sales

Great customer service makes or breaks any business from the smallest mom and pop shop to the national franchise. These past weeks while on vacation I have experienced the best of customer service and the worst of it. Within one hour, my husband and I experienced the best and the worse of customer service times.

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Is Your Prospect Waiting for Energy Compliance?

Selling Energy

I was asked about prospects who say “no” to efficiency because of a misplaced emphasis on energy compliance. Their specific question was, “How do you convince a prospect to explore and invest in efficiency when their boss is just preoccupied with meeting local energy-efficiency benchmarking requirements?”.

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The Shape of Exceptional Customer Service

Carew International

What is Exceptional Customer Service? Our recent examination of the Verizon PR nightmare highlighted the importance and impact of the customer service function. There is nothing simple about human interaction, particularly when one of the humans is a customer with a need, problem or complaint.

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Video Game Energy

Lessonly

When I’m commanded to do something, my energy downshifts. I watch great managers at Lessonly create video game energy on their teams wherever they can. A different friend, Jeff Toister , does a lot of consulting with customer service teams. The post Video Game Energy appeared first on Lessonly.

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5 Retention Strategies That Don’t Work Without Killer Customer Service Skills

Lessonly

I don’t know about you, but I think customer service roles get a bad rap. The stereotypical customer service agent is just listening to customer complaints, resolving help tickets without a whole lot of passion, and troubleshooting basic problems. What is customer service really about?

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Empathy: The Hands-Down Hardest of the Customer Service Skills to Master

Lessonly

Why is empathy critical in customer service, and how do we train for it? Now, the new thing everyone’s talking about besides trust, especially in the customer service world, is empathy. Now that might be a bit esoteric, but showing empathy is the act of humanizing our friends, coworkers, customers, and even strangers.