Guest post by Cathenry. The ninth and final lesson in the Forbes article Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach is “Customer Service is Actually about You.” I often see myself as the director of first impressions for my business. I try to avoid coming across with a fake personality or […]
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Guest post by Cathenry. The eighth lesson in the Forbes article Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach is “If you always think you’re right, you’ll never learn anything new” and it reminds us how important it is to listen. Recently, I needed some unresolved printer help. I bit the bullet […]
Guest post by Cathenry. The seventh lesson, “You’ll Encounter a Variety of Expectations” in the Forbes article Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach reminds us how different expectations can be from one client to the next. As a result of the current pandemic, clientele expectations are changing. Business practices pre-pandemic […]
Guest post by Cathenry. “Customers Will Respect You if You Push Back with Good Reason” is another lesson cited in the Forbes article (Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach) worthy of consideration. It is difficult to be all things to all people while keeping the quality and best interest of […]
Guest post by Cathenry. As many are scrambling to adjust to the new now of doing business in this duration of the pandemic, the next lesson learned in the Forbes series (Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach) is apropos: “You Can Never Be Too Thankful” for the customer. One way […]
Guest post by Cathenry. The next lesson learned in the Forbes series (Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach) is “Always Take Care of Every Customer.” A self-check is to ask yourself: How would I, as a customer, want to be treated? The golden rule standard of doing unto others as […]
Near-term, commerce will see marketing and customer service conjoin—defined as “to join together (things, such as separate entities) for a common purpose.” Ultimately, I believe the two will conflate—viewed as combining two or more ideas into one. It’s kind of like the difference between a strategic partnership, where two companies work together toward a common […]
Guest post by Cathenry. A third lesson shared from a recent Forbes article (Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach) states “It’s Worth Investing in Software that Gives You Support.” The idea references giving your employees the tools they need to support their efforts. But this should include mental and emotional […]
Companies continue to think they can BS and bluster their way through our human instincts and convince us of their customer service excellence—no matter what’s really happening. A recent article by ZDnet contributor Chris Matyszczyk illustrates the point poignantly when addressing one of the most important stakeholders deserving solid customer service—employees themselves. This interesting story […]
Guest post by Cathenry. A lesson shared from a recent Forbes article (Nine Impactful Customer Service Lessons That Can Change Your Business Approach) states customers are often loyal because of an emotional connection. This connection can then possibly extend itself to that sweet spot of word-of-mouth advertising on top of the traditional marketing venues. […]
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