Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 17, 2016

A recent article on Small Business Trends explains that although you may believe you and your business are providing excellent customer service, chances are your customers/clients aren’t exactly on the same page. Obviously, as business owners we tend to be biased about the delivery of good customer service.

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 18, 2010

In addition, take note of how frequently they ‘@’ and direct message their customers, how frequently they communicate with influential twitterers (5000+ followers) and whether they use their account for customer service or some kind of direct sales service. Take a leaf from AirAsia’s book.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

He offers up: Amazingserviceguy By Kevin Stirz Business Is Personal By Mark Riffey Customers Rock! By Becky Carroll CustServ By Meikah Delid Maximum Customer Experience By Kelly Erickson People2People Service By Maria Palma QA QnA By Tom Vander Well Return Customer By Joe Rawlinson (Joe and I both started customer service blogs in April 2005.)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Others make a living dog walking or pet sitting, performing task-based gigs, delivery driving, providing home improvement services, managing social media or transcribing audio files. Words of advice: “Get experience however you can,” says Christina Catania, freelancer and founder of Burro Social Co. in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By simplifying the decision-making and booking process, aggregators improve operational efficiency and enhance productivity. This has also led to more meeting room revenue because on the days the entire team needs to meet, they need to book a larger room.” But not everyone knows that these systems/companies exist.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on August 10, 2010 under Customer Moments , Employee Moments , First Impressions | Read the First Comment Customer Relationships are just like good friends They sound similar but do they mean the same thing? Or would they? Share your tips for success here.

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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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JUNE 27, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on June 27, 2010 under Customer Moments | Be the First to Comment I get confused sometimes, more often than not, some would say, about the right word to use. Which is customer service for your business? hmmm sounds like the same thing. It is perhaps MORE than a strategy or a tactic.

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JUNE 26, 2011

This is most likely intended to help the airline stay top-of-mind with the customer and gently encourage them to book their next flight with the airline. However, in this case, the monthly email only serves as a reminder that this particular customer doesn’t have any more points with AirlineX – and that hurts.

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MAY 5, 2011

I am so excited to share the news with all of you that I have a book coming out in July! And it is thanks to you, my faithful Customers Rock! The book is called The Hidden Power of Your Customers: Four Keys to Growing Your Business Through Existing Customers , being published by John Wiley & Sons.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 25, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, it is something that can really happen for small, efficient, and ultra-effective internet businesses. Today, businesses can take less advice from promotion-packed business books and a lot more from historic strategy. For years, the idea of the ambitious upstart was limited to the realms of fiction.

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Make or Break Moments

AUGUST 27, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on August 27, 2010 under Customer Moments | 2 Comments to Read I am working on writing a series of articles for a customer on the importance of developing and documenting business systems. But what about the customer service process? The customers. The response? Sounds harsh?

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? In fact, retaining current customers can be more cost-effective as no outgoings are necessary to market and sell to them. You want the whole tree."

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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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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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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.

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APRIL 20, 2010

This time the focus is on Social Media. One of the authors, Rick Liebling Global Director, Client Management, for Taylor and author of the Periodic Table of Social Media Elements , graciously invited each of the over 170 contributors to share a little about their chapter in the upcoming book. You should.

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 27, 2024

AI isn’t just about crunching numbers or automating customer service. Imagine automating the boring stuff—scheduling social media posts, responding to routine customer inquiries, managing your books—so you can focus on what really matters: growing your business and living your life. What can you do with AI?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m reading the book “Two Weeks to a Breakthrough&# by Lisa Haneberg. An interesting book about being focused on a goal and working each day towards bringing it to life. In the Day Two exercise she has a great analogy and it made me think of companies trying to bring customer service to life.

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MAY 7, 2010

Yours truly has a chapter in this book as well as in the Age of Conversation 2. Fast forward to today and the abstract experiment is now a concrete treatise on the state of social media and marketing best practices as a whole. Read all about it and then order your copy. Read all about it and then order your copy.

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Customers Rock!

MAY 10, 2012

I recently attended the 2012 Lithium Network Conference (LiNC for short) in San Francisco to hear about the latest and greatest from Lithium Technologies as well as from thought leaders such as Brian Solis , photo left, who shared about Digital Darwinism from his new book The End of Business as Usual. Good News for Social Customer Service.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 20, 2012

  I was hit by the lack of customer service too, but we can certainly learn from this story; so that is what I'm going to share today. Provide Customer Service Even If The Service You Are Providing is No Cost. .  Sure, shutting down is something that can happen when you use a 3rd-party tool.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on June 2, 2010 under Listening , Missed Moments , social media | Be the First to Comment Just saw this link on a tweet The Biggest Shift Since the Industrial Revolution. Scroll down the Advance Search page and click the sad face and/or the “?&#

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Any less and you attract too many needy customers. More, and they will expect white-glove customer service. Or a service? Selling a digital product, such as a book or an online course is far simpler. professionals working on non-fiction books), that’s when sales started to take off. selling services?

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Great meeting to learn about new sites, new social media techniques. We call ourselves the Akron Bloggers Community. It started a little over three years ago when Chris Brown of Marketing Resources and Results , Inc. and I decided it would be fun to have a meet up with other bloggers in the area.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Reading your favorite blogs on Kindle?

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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. Customers have changed, and customer expectations have greatly changed!

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Service Untitled

APRIL 10, 2013

The Customer Service Survival Kit was written by Richard S. Gallagher, a practicing psychotherapist and the author of many customer service books who has trained over 20,000 people on how to handle the most daunting situations with customers while improving their confidence and an organization’s customer relations.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Join a Group Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on April 15, 2010 under Connecting Moments , social media | Be the First to Comment If I were a betting woman I would say that you have joined LinkedIn. But it is also a great place to take the pulse of your industry and gauge what trends are on the horizon.

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JULY 16, 2010

Here are the top ten winners: Change Forge Customers Rock Get Satisfaction Service with a Purpose Customer Service and More The Social Customer Manifesto Whos Your Gladys Dennis Snow’s Blog Amazing Service Guy Blog Customer Service en Visit Awarding the Web for the complete list of winners.

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MAY 4, 2012

As many of you know, I have been doing quite a bit of traveling lately, speaking about my book and sharing the Customers Rock! As most travelers are aware, the customer experience is especially important when you are away from home; it becomes something we are truly living. I want to eat there! Tips for Improvement.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I recently exchanged Facebook messages with Deb Robison , a smart marketing and social media gal. She wanted to share a customer service story with me and get my take on it. Around this same time, I needed some shoes and books. Tried to get help via your social media channels? That was two days ago.

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MARCH 22, 2010

That quote comes from Randy Pausch and his book The Last Lecture. I’m behind the rest of the world in reading, what I would classify as one of the most inspiration books I’ve ever read. Randy’s book offers so many wonderful nuggets of truth in relatable, bite sized pieces.

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JUNE 14, 2010

To talk about Seth’s book Linchpins and what it means to make yourself an artist in your field and consequently indispensible. Dan Wrona of Rise Partnerships had read the book and I cheated and listened to a recap at Polar Unlimited. The purpose? Two of us made the trek and I’m so glad we did. What is a Linchpin?

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Yet isn’t there some value in sharing what we’ve learned so that we can all become better in business, better using social media, better with our customer relationships? If we find out something new and exciting – we should keep it a secret so that we have a leg up on our competition. Are you local?

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MAY 26, 2010

Right now I’m getting ready to advertise the fact that I’m teaching the second set of classes on social media. Unlike most classes that are webinars – my series is in person, hands on, get down and dirty with social media so you leave with a clearer understanding and a focused strategy.

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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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