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6 Steps to Using the Telephone to Turn Away Service Business

Don’t return your calls. No matter what, don’t call the customer back – certainly not on the same day! Prompt responses to voicemail messages only serves to encourage more customers to leave more messages that might result in more business.

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Dealing With Emotional Customers to a Positive Result

Manage the situation. This is the critical point in this situation. The manager had used an approach to draw out some of the emotion from the situation, but was he prepared to do anything? Here is what he did.

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“They Don’t Pay Me to Look Good” in Service Delivery

The second component that makes up our customers’ service experience is how the service is conducted – the smile on the tech’s face, the cleanliness of the work area, the quality of the repair description and even how the technicians chooses to present him or herself. This is called the service delivery.

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When the Customer Service person says “I Can’t Help”

We’ve all experienced it. You need to get something done and the customer service person you are relying on says, “I can’t help”. The solution requires a little bit of empathy, perhaps some creativity and a lot of common sense. Although the clerk may be smart, efficient and good at their job, they fail to show any of the three requirements. There is no empathy, little creatively and certainly no evidence of common sense.

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Step 6 of a Proactive Service® Culture – Coach and Support

In step 5 of our previous blog, we talked about following up on opportunities. The 6th and final step in creating a Proactive Service® culture within your service team is to provide coaching and support.  If we want to see

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