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Customer Service

Are you listening to what your customers need or are you just “hearing” what your customers need?

You hear they need:

  • Your services
  • Your time
  • Your talents
  • Your products

But is that what they really need?

Deep down, I think they need more than that.

They DESERVE more than that!

Your customers need and deserve your full attention!

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They need you to tune them in, and tune the world out.

They need you to:

Turn off your iPhone, your Droid, your BlackBerry, your cell phone.

Ignore anyone who walks by and to focus on the one person in front of you right now.

If the phone rings and it’s a customer, shut off your TV, your instant messenger, your Skype, your Google Reader, your e-mail.

Close your Dell laptop, your Macbook, your Netbook.

If it helps you to listen better, close your eyes.

Tune your customer in and find out what they really need.

Then you can give them:

  • Your services
  • Your time
  • Your talents
  • Your products

Are you listening or merely hearing what you want to hear?

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Customer Service Is…

Customer Service

I was looking up what customer service meant to me, and what it means to others.
Here’s what I discovered:
"Customer service is the ability to provide a service or product in the way that it has been promised"
"Customer service is about treating others as you would like to be treated yourself"
"Customer service is an organization’s ability [...]

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Customer Service is All About YOU!

Customer Service

Customer service is really simple. It’s all about you.
No, not you, the person giving customer service. YOU the customer.
Focus on YOU, and you’ll delight your customers. What is YOU?

Y – Yes.
Every customer likes to hear yes. Say yes more than you say no.
O – Outcome focused.
The desired outcome is a successful transaction of the [...]

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9 Ways to Deliver Common Sense Customer Service

Customer Service

One of the most obvious, yet overlooked, points about customer service is to use your common sense when you’re making decisions. The immediacy of social media makes it even more obvious that this is overlooked.
In honor of Customer Service Week, here are my 9 Ways to Deliver Common Sense Customer Service.

First impressions matter (a [...]

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Happy Customer Service Week!

Customer Service

This week when you go to your favorite coffee shop, get your hair cut, talk to your cell phone or cable company, or even go grocery shopping, pause for an extra second and thank those who serve you.
It’s Customer Service Week and all week over at Slacker Manager, I’m going to be sharing my [...]

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Customer Service Quotes

Customer Service

In honor of Customer Service Week, and because I’m doing a few speeches on customer service, I asked my LinkedIn network for their best customer service quote, and WOW, did they deliver.
Here are a ton of great customer service quotes to read and to share.
Please leave YOUR best customer service quote in the comments section [...]

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Happy Customer Service Week!

Customer Service

This week is Customer Service Week, and I have 2 presentations I’ll be doing this week; one in person at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah (where I’m writing this post at the downtown Ogden Marriot) and for HDI via webinar (which you can sign up for free at HDI’s website. I hope you [...]

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