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OCTOBER 3, 2024

In his seminal book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making us Smarter , Harvard evolutionary anthropologist Joseph Henrich summarizes culture’s significance this way. For advocates of strong corporate cultures, this represents a generational opportunity.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Often an indispensable component of a coworking operations team, community managers are recognized for their warm and welcoming personalities and their ability to provide top-quality customer service. Their core mission is connecting people to one another, making sure everyone feels included and accepted in the workspace.

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 27, 2024

So, I pulled out my phone, gave ChatGPT the scoop—how many beads of each type I had, what I was trying to create—and hit send. AI isn’t just about crunching numbers or automating customer service. But then, like a flash of inspiration (or maybe desperation), I thought, “Why not ask ChatGPT?” What can you do with AI?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk John’s book is full of those moments, when he talks about &# A Solution to THE Small Business Problem “, marketing. His book fills any bootstrappers heart with joy as he takes you step-by-step to developing your own marketing plan.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Let Them Peek Inside Imagine you’re checking into a hotel: You’d want to see the room before booking, right? Book, Click, Go! Booking a vacation? Integrating booking and reservation systems is like offering a comfy chair with a single click. Apply that same logic here. High-speed Wi-Fi? Comfy chairs?

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 27, 2006

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk You need to look on your books as your very own window on the health and well being of your business. So, now you know why you need to keep books, but how do you go about it. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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Customers Rock!

AUGUST 16, 2012

Social media has pushed customer service to the forefront for many organizations. Responses are often faster in social media than they are in traditional service channels, since social media makes everything extremely visible. In my book , I talk about Killer Customer Service. Expectations.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 20, 2010

It is also true with our customers. If we put them first in all we do – the customer service experience improves. I’l created a little booklet that offers 105 ways to put customers first. You often have to put their needs ahead of yours. So how do you start?

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Success

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Read a self-help book every morning for 30 minutes. Call one of your children on the phone. If you don’t know how, buy a book on starting a business and read it, or check the internet for tips. Tony Alessandra , a communication and sales expert and co-author of the bestselling book The New Art of Managing People.

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Customers Rock!

MARCH 30, 2010

The radio program is really an extension of this blog; you get to hear my voice as part of an hour-long conversation around the topics we all know and love here: customer experience, customer service, loyalty, marketing, and social media. Here is a typical customer service tweet: Does anyone know if COMPANY X has a Twitter?

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Make or Break Moments

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One person was behind the desk, I was no more than five feet away and talking to her when she picked up the phone and called a vendor, totally ignoring my presence. Yet, a phone call appeared to be more important than engaging me in even trivial conversation. Lesson Learned: One way to create sales is to get people into the store.

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Make or Break Moments

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The purpose of your website should be to get the reader to take a predetermined action: pick up the phone, send you an email or fill out a contact form. Make sure your website is doing its part to capture the reader’s attention and get them to pick up the phone so you can do your magic.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I was reading the posts over at Small Business Trends (something I highly recommend you do) and ran across an article by Barry Moltz entitled the 10 Customer Service Trends of 2010. She’d read that this newest generation was taking on traits of their grandparents; embracing the homemade handicrafts.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Hotel Requests or Repairs: Most hotels do their best to provide good customer service, neat and fully functional sleeping rooms, efficient staff, and tasty food. Call the front desk from your hotel room phone and state your issue. Prepare: pack a good book or your MP3 player so you can entertain yourself during downtime.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 14, 2010

I belong to several; local groups with a variety of business types and industry specific groups for speakers, writers, customer service and HR professionals. We talk about CUSTOMER SERVICE but I didn’t see a group that dealt with the “relationships&# we have with customers.

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Make or Break Moments

MARCH 9, 2010

They use technology to allow service men and women to deposit checks no matter where they are stationed. They have created a company that puts the specific needs of their customers first. I was especially intrigued by what the article refers to it as their Secret Sauce.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If we are conversing online or over the phone – the desire to multi-task while we talk can be overwhelming, but if you read Larry’s article you can hear just how wrong that decision was. But the biggest thing to remember is STAY FOCUSED ON THE CUSTOMER. The pleasantries we learned in Kindergarten still work well.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 6, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. If customer service telephone personnel have been taught just to deliver identical conversations and not have the ability to capitalize on their own personal styles, chances are the needs of the consumer are not being addressed.

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Service Untitled

MAY 27, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The software is able to predict how interested a customer is in one’s product and when to stop, within a minute if a customer is getting angry; the computer will then suggest the representative end the call.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 20, 2010

We need to do the same thing with our customers. Of course that means we have to engage them in conversation – exit interviews – follow up surveys or phone calls to ask about the service and experience and then listen for patterns. Customer complaints are another great place to look for patterns.

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Each of us has different experiences with customer service; some are good while most that we hear about are just horrible. Businesses, no matter how big or small, need to evaluate how well they are serving their customers. In a very competitive market, business owners cannot just ignore the importance of service excellence.

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Service Untitled

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

and brought up some interesting points about customer service and the lack thereof. Slater became a sort of folk hero of customer service contempt by more than 200,000 people on his Facebook’s fan page. People are fed up with poor customer service and customer service departments.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

When the pressure is on to find an impressive venue to wow your clients, or source the ideal training venue for your delegates, or book the perfect executive meeting room, it’s good to know that help is at hand. The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct.

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Service Untitled

JUNE 25, 2012

In one of the most successful self-help books, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , author Stephen Covey identifies the elements truly effective people use regularly as tools towards their success. Might we just build trust and more satisfied customers by getting back to basics, and using proven methods of success?

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Service Untitled

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence that National Customer Service Week is celebrated this late on the calendar; it’s the unofficial launch of the biggest shopping experience of the year as the holiday season closes in and shoppers start counting down the days to family and friend celebrations. photo by: William Brawley.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 4, 2011

In real estate sales, there is a lot more to successful customer service than dealing with just customers and clients. Homes are listed in multiple listing services, and thousands upon thousands of other selling realtors are there to sell a listed home. In real estate listing is the game. Make sure your orders are clear.

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 20, 2010

Tags: connect with customers , Mashable , mobile websites Monique said, Deborah, I’m so glad you posted this article because only a few days ago a colleague and I were discussing the importance of being visible via mobile phones.

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Small Business CEO

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Picture this – your company’s phone is ringing off the hook. It could be a potential customer calling up to inquire about a product. Or an existing customer is trying to book an appointment. Or worse, a dissatisfied customer looking to resolve a grievance. … The post Want to Win More Business?

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JUNE 29, 2023

To further enhance the sense of belonging and boost future sales, consider incorporating the following tips inspired by customer service courses: Foster team connections : Introduce new members to your entire team, enabling them to know who to approach for specific needs or inquiries.

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Service Untitled

JUNE 30, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Offer role-playing, mentoring and carefully select those employees who can resolve, address and deal with customers in a positive manner. Maximizing Social Media: Part 1 of 2 When we were kids we use to construct a “phone.

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 11, 2010

I’ll never know if I don’t pick up the phone and ask. Are you guilty of just focusing on the customers or prospects that scream the loudest and let the ones who seem self sufficient, fend for themselves? I am a customer service trainer, and in training I reiterate the importance of the customer relationship.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Eerily, you happened to have just picked up a book two weeks prior, again, dissecting the same issue. Do you hear the ‘ Ring, Ring’ of the Get-a-Clue phone? It started with the book from Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. Are you hearing it?

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 30, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk by Stefan Töpfer on Jul 30, 2010 Fellow blogger John Crickett is busy writing a new book: The Big Book of Business Ideas , and he needs your help. OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. John Needs YOU! What do you have to do?

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JULY 22, 2024

We’re on our phones. It’s hard to have good customer service if you’re hating your own life. Like I mentioned, we’re going to leave the link to our previous episode, to Doctor Saundra’s book as well. To go on to another screen. It’s this whole screen.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 23, 2012

Shapiro’s organization provides research, training, and consulting services to Fortune 500 corporations on how to improve customer service. Good customer service is good for today. Having a welcomer provide good customer service wil make you return tomorrow. That’s a big difference.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 1, 2010

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk We will open the book. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.&# OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

What if you share a small space and one person needs to talk on the phone while the other needs quiet work time? You may want to coordinate for set quiet times so that no one books a meeting in that space. #2. Standards for customer service (if you deal with clients directly) - For example, do you use video chat?

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