Free coffee, boxes of donuts and the occasional pizza lunch are all great treats or perks to offer members of a customer service team. They just aren’t enough to ensure they’ll have the level of happiness you need.
This is more important than some firms might initially realize. There is often a...
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“We treat our customers like family” is a lovely sentiment, but it’s much too broad to be a customer service strategy, especially for larger customer service departments.
An effective customer service management strategy is essential for the growth of a business; it sets the tone for how customers...
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Unless a salesperson has ever had to get a company to buy something, they probably never made a big distinction between the worlds of business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B),
The B2C world seems so big as to include almost anyone and everything. If you sell consumer products...
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There’s a great quote from Gandhi you might see occasionally on bumper stickers, on email signatures or as an Internet meme: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
It’s inspiring because it suggests that, rather than being put off or frightened by unexpected events that take place all around...
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Getting online visibility is hard for any website, but for an SMB site it’s a constant struggle. Small business owners don’t generally have the search engine optimization (SEO) skills and resources that larger sites do, but their business still depends on how well they optimize for search and how...
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It must have been a bit of a let-down when the last prospectors finally arrived in the Wild West to try and participate in the California Gold Rush of 1849. All those competitors were already swinging their pick-axes and sifting their pans, which meant you would have had to be particularly...
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Good customer service is expected. Customers expect you to get their orders right. They expect a speedy turnaround on service. They expect a transaction without hiccups.
As customers, we expect good customer service but, unfortunately, when we get it, we generally forget it within minutes. The...
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The concept of an elevator pitch is so common in the startup community it’s easy to forget (or overlook) the unlikely premise it’s based upon.
As many founders already know, an elevator pitch is a summary of your startup’s value proposition and mission that’s compelling, convincing and short....
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The first act of marketing for many small businesses is probably as simple as a sign on the front of their store or office building that proudly declares “WE ARE OPEN.”
Although it covers a lot of the basics — raising awareness, inviting customers to begin a relationship and hopefully designed in...
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