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Stress & Motivation
Dealing with Complaints
Customer Service Quotes
Difficult Situations
Going the Extra Mile
Listening Better
Humor in Customer Service

A few more Amazing Service resources for you:

Put modern science to work for you. My Daily Dose of Amazing Service is based on recent research in behavioral economics. It helps you stay motivated to deliver Amazing Customer Service every day.

Daily Dose of Amazing Service – Email Newsletter

Sharpen your listening skills with this listening assessment and list of tips:

How to Be an Amazing Listener

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About this Page

Although customer service is everyone’s job, customer facing employees spend more time helping customers than anyone else. And they endure much more stress due to difficult situations than anyone else. They face the majority of customer support challenges.

And they are the greatest opportunity an organization has to increase customer loyalty.

Employees do the work of companies. To customers, they ARE the company. And they have a direct view into what customers want, what they don’t want, what they like, what they loathe and how a company can improve.

This is your guide to helping your organization improve customer service through employees.

If you are an employee:

You’ll find useful articles and resources here to help you sharpen your skills and stay motivated.

If you are a manager, team leader, owner or executive:

You’ll find resources here you can use as you work with your team.

The resources here are designed to help employees improve their skills and motivation so they can serve their customers better. They are focused on tactical and behavioral tools that can be used quickly and easily by anyone who works with customers. (They’re also useful for managers.)

If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please share them with me. You can call me at: 1-952-212-4681 or email me by clicking here.

Service Recovery

5 Steps to Avoid “Doing a Toyota.”

When a company makes a mistake, it can be the brightest moment in their history.

Toyota had that opportunity. But they missed their moment. Big time.

How a company reacts, removes the pain, and repairs the emotional connection shows the true colors of that organization more than almost any situation they might encounter.

Technology

Peachtree knows that customer service is cool

Customer service is the new marketing because now companies can no longer control what people are saying about them. Everyday, customers and prospects are ranting and raving about your company on social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Companies that don’t get customer service and don’t react to what customers are talking about are doomed to fail.

Feedback

Focus on customer service in 2010 (finally?)

This may be it. This may be the year that it finally happens. 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.

1. Brands are using a focus on customers as a competitive differentiator in their advertisements.

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Train the Trainer – Amazing Service Toolkit

Now you can improve customer service and save money.

Our new Trainer's Toolkit enables you to conduct a professional customer service seminar in your organization at a fraction of the cost of hiring a professional trainer. Click here to learn more.

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