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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Escalations and You

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Employees, and especially managers, who are too far removed from the actual issues and the actual customers are going to have a harder time coming up with effective policies and good ideas. Policy creation, personnel management, interviewing, etc. Focusing on management. This is a valid point as well.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » White Glove Service in 4 Steps

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If the employees are restricted by a huge number of rules, policies, or procedures (that they don’t have the power to excuse themselves from in certain situations), the customer service experience will suffer. The environment is respectable.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Panera Bread 2010 “25 Customer.

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So we have a few of Panera’s policies that set them apart from other restaurants, and that includes antibiotic free chicken, no trans fat, many natural ingredients and an impressive list of whole grain breads, but does that have a significant impact on customer service and the Business Week’s award?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee satisfaction a key to.

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Depending on the company policy, budget or protocol, definitive rewards keep employees striving towards the next level. If an employee perceives something in the company policy or required protocol when dealing with customers isn’t working, someone in management should deal with the problem before it becomes a major issue.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » B&H Customer Service

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Liberal return policy. B&H isn’t the only retail store that has a very liberal return policy (see this post on Nordstrom). A liberal return policy represents a desire to keep customers loyal to the company in the long run instead of just making money off of them in the short run.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Abercrombie & Fitch Customer Service

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Abercrombine enforced a policy that essentially made no difference (and inconvenienced a customer) on principle. As to the jeans in the extra small size, I can appreciate the need to keep the mannequins well fitted, but these jeans were on the rack, even if by error, and not needed to be on any display mannequin.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Internal customer service counts too

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For example, in Florida insurance companies were no longer writing flood insurance policies. Practice proactive information sharing. Send important information out before employees or representatives need it. Imagine that? Just yesterday flood insurance has been temporarily brought back until the end of May.