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		<title>Misunderstanding is the natural state of our communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I attended a seminar geared toward helping us manage change better in our organizations. One of the many things worth remembering from that day is a phrase from Larry Wilson: The natural state of communication is misunderstanding. At first I didn&#8217;t understand what Larry meant. Lucky for me he continued to explain. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connect with your customers on their terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a fun (and lengthy) text conversation with one of my nieces. She&#8217;s in college and 5 hours away so we don&#8217;t see her as much as we&#8217;d like. And being a busy college kid, phone conversations with her are not very common. In fact, our &#8220;kids&#8221; (12 nieces and nephews) are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never assume everything is clear to your customer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication is the surest path to delivering Amazing service to our customers. But it&#8217;s often harder than we realize to be on the same page with our customers. Here&#8217;s a funny (and true) example of how something can seem so clear to an employee but not their customers. Thanks to the good people at NotAlwaysRight.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always close the loop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I submitted a help ticket to a company about a problem with their product. It was not a critical issue but one that needed fixing. After reviewing the issue they marked it as &#8220;resolved&#8221;. But they never told me it was resolved. And they didn&#8217;t tell me how to apply the fix. So, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer retention tip: Be easy to talk to</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improve Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your Daily Dose of Amazing Service: Be easy to talk to And here are some additional thoughts on this topic… As a customer it&#8217;s frustrating enough when we get bad service. Too often we get less than we expect or want. So when we have a customer experience that thrills us, we usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be aware of language differences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your Daily Dose of Amazing Service: Be aware of language differences And here are some additional thoughts on this topic… A friend of mine who grew up in New York City shared with me his first coffee experience in mild-mannered Minnesota. In a popular coffee shop near his home he asked for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media rescues customers before company does</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening my anti-virus software went crazy. It started finding viruses all over my netbook. After several hours of banging my head against our kitchen table, with no success in cleaning up the problem, I turned to my good friend Google for help. There I discovered (to my great relief) that there was no virus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educate your customers</title>
		<link>http://amazingserviceguy.com/2282/educate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your Daily Dose of Amazing Service: Educate your customers And here are some additional thoughts on this topic… If you offer quality products and services you probably have a well-run business. And to your customers, you make things look easy. This is good and necessary to be successful. But there&#8217;s also a downside. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t assume anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is your Daily Dose of Amazing Service: Don&#8217;t assume anything And here are some additional thoughts on this topic… As we help our customers it&#8217;s easy to fall into the trap of assuming we know what they want. It&#8217;s even easier, if we have a good relationship with them. But when we assume, we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For better customer service, pretend you’re an eye doctor</title>
		<link>http://amazingserviceguy.com/2268/for-better-customer-service-pretend-you%e2%80%99re-an-eye-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Stirtz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of the last time you had your eyes examined. At some point, your eye doctor (or optometrist) probably asked you to read some letters on an eye chart. If you wear glasses or contacts, you got to look through a lot of different lenses. This typically involves you comparing two different lenses against each [...]]]></description>
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