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Focus on Customer Service in 2010 (Finally?)

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2010 may just be the year that companies start to focus on their customers and serving them well. Now, I am cautiously optimistic about this focus on customer service, but let me tell you why I feel this way. Brands are using a focus on customers as a competitive differentiator in their advertisements. What do you think?

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Expert’s Corner: Chip Bell on Unconditional Customer Service

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The parallels he draws between passionate cooking and customer service will be something you will noodle on for awhile. Patterson, of the book Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers. Unconditional Customer Service by Chip Bell. Chip is the author, with John R.

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Killer Customer Service, or Customer-Killer Service?

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Every email they receive, commercial they view, social media site they “like&# , and direct mail piece they read (or not) affects their view of your business and their overall customer service experience. It may be something that seems small to your organization which pushes the customer out the door.

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Customer-Obsessed Service

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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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Social CRM: An Idea Whose Time has Come?

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That’s the perspective many customer service experts have had toward social media-based customer service, or social CRM. With so much noise in the social channel, is it worth it to ferret out a few random requests for customer service? Next, establish service specific social media properties.

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Customer-Obsessed Service

Customers Rock!

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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Lithium’s Customer Heroes

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Good News for Social Customer Service. Having been a Lithium customer for the past two years, when I was the Verizon Community program manager and social media strategist, I am probably a bit different from other “thought leaders” who attended the briefing and the event. Here are some of my key takeaways.

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