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How To Handle Customer Billing Snafus


Q: I just discovered that for the past six months I have been billing a client half of what I should have been. Should I just include the total of the past due balance on his next bill or contact him first to let him know that it's coming? This client has been difficult in the past, so I'd rather not deal with him until I absolutely have to.

Do You Want More Profits? - Follow The Golden Rules Of Providing Good Customer Service


Last night I was at my computer and a Skype chat window opened up with a link in it from a stranger. I clicked the link and was taken to one of those "You would have to be crazy to pass up this business opportunity" sites.

One of the Secrets of a Great Customer Experience


A few weeks ago we conducted our annual "Customer Experience Study Tour" in London England. This is where we take delegates to visit a number of leading Customer Experience companies for a behind-the-scenes look at how they approach the task of building a great Customer Experience.

Are You A Coward? I Was


Over the last month, I have come to hate emails and answerphones; not because I get 100 emails every day but because emails and answerphones are fast becoming the tool of the coward. At Beyond Philosophy we worked with a client a while ago whose account managers and sales teams never used to speak to anyone! They just used to send emails.

Customer No Service - How to Lose a Loyal Customer!


So today was the day where I almost stopped going to my favorite supermarket here in Milwaukee. If you're in Milwaukee, you know the one I'm talking about: the cool one downtown that has 1000 different types of produce, and a whole aisle dedicated to gourmet coffee and teas.

Your Career Plan--Think Like A CEO


You've been going 6-to-late; exhausted by running the supersonic treadmill of life and wish you had a different job. But you can't because you have no time and you're left spent at the end of every day.

Cheap To Keep


You've heard it all before when it comes to stats about customer retention. Acquiring a customer costs five to 10 times more than retaining one.

What You Need to Know About CRM


1. It's all about the customer.

Customer Feedback: Everyone has an Opinion - USE IT!


Have you ever been in a department store and known exactly what you were looking for but couldn't locate any staff to help you find it? Think of your website as your very own department store, and your contact numbers, email addresses, and FAQ's navigational buttons as your staff. Without these handy interaction tools, your purchaser will get frustrated and E-shop somewhere else.

4 Tips Toward Overcoming Bad Customer Service


Customer service is the pits, you say. You are not alone.

And The Difference is... Attitude


I returned a rental car at an airport yesterday. As the person who was going to check me in approached, he smiled (which shocked me) and said, "Hello Mr.

Adjustment DENIED


It's just a simple thing - I bought a new set of shelves for my office. It wasn't a real problem, but when I got the shelves home, I found dents on the front of the shelves where the package had been leaned up on some other object, the shelves had been removed from the original box and put into another box.

Automating Your Help Desk Workflow


Do you know you can open, answer, close and report help desk information without human intervention?Automation is a powerful feature provided by most enterprise level help desk products; however, most organizations rarely take advantage of these features. Based on a survey conducted by RightStar Systems, only 5% of the help desk managers interviewed were using automation to its fullest capacity.

Add Value - And Kill Mediocrity in Customer Service


There are two kinds of customer service we all experience occasionally, outstanding customer service, and bad customer service. What we experience most of the time is mediocre customer service.

The Drawback of Hacking Off a Blogger Through Weak Process Gaps and Pathetic Customer Service


With all of the recent data theft in the financial sector, it is important to make sure that we don't go crazy trying to protect ourselves from risk. Risk management does have a value but this value lies mostly on the front end.

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Customer service: The client Is always right
The Commercial Dispatch
McRae's Department Store in the Hattiesburg Cloverleaf Mall was hidden far behind cosmetics, just past the shoes and tucked into a small corner beside customer service. Perhaps it's ironic that this column is all about customer service.



Sydney Morning Herald

Rail customer service: if you're Jewish catch a taxi
Sydney Morning Herald
The customer service manager at Central Station, no less. ''They're all Jews living in the eastern suburbs; they're all wealthy; they can afford to get a taxi,'' Roman Arnusch uttered repeatedly, according to the couple. The Bogans, who are Jewish and ...
Jews can afford taxisJ-Wire Jewish Australian News Service

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Nexteer Automotive to open customer service center in Troy
Midland Daily News
Saignaw-based Nexteer Automotive plans to hire 50 engineers to support a new 30000-square-foot customer service center in Troy that will be open by April. "Following two record-breaking years for new customer contracts, this latest customer service ...
Nexteer Automotive: New Customer Service Center in TroyMyFox Detroit
Nexteer plans customer centre in Troy, Michiganjust-auto.com (subscription)

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Kuwait Times

NBK 'Best Customer Service Bank in Kuwait' for 2011 – 'Service Hero award ...
Kuwait Times
KUWAIT: For the second time in a row, National Bank of Kuwait was named the Best Customer Service Bank in Kuwait among retail banks countrywide by Service Hero, an independent organization specialized in cross-industry customer satisfaction and quality ...

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Local bank receives 11 customer service awards
NorthFulton.com
In the Middle Market Banking segment, Synovus Bank and Bank of North Georgia were recognized in four national categories: Overall Satisfaction, Relationship Manager Performance, Customer Service and Treasury Management. In addition to the four national ...

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Women like customer service at Scholfield Honda
Kansas.com
His Scholfield Honda has been recognized a couple of times recently for offering great customer service to women. On Wednesday, Forbes wrote about a survey that WomenCertified conducted last fall for Dealer Magazine, which Scholfield calls one of the ...

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Joia Shillingford: Venomous bonus bashing risks causing a further ...
The Independent
This policy works at John Lewis, as he pointed out, and my fear is that if bonuses are removed as a way of remunerating staff, customer service in the UK will get even worse. Barclays Capital was the latest organisation to shrink its bonus pool (by 32 ...



Rediff

In Customer Service Push, Microsoft Invests In 24/7, Which Acquires Voxify
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Deborah Gage People who are forced to engage in online chats with virtual customer service agents–or who are passed from agent to agent without getting their problems solved–are likely to get highly frustrated and take their business elsewhere.
Microsoft strikes deal with 24/7, promises to 'redefine' customer serviceEngadget
Microsoft and 24/7 Inc. Join Forces to Deliver the Future of Customer Service ...MarketWatch (press release)
Microsoft Teams Up with 24/7 on Customer Service SoftwareDestination CRM
PCWorld -The Seattle Times -ITProPortal
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'Humorous' customer service workshop planned in Danville
WSLS
Considering the importance of quality customer service, the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce is offering a humorous, DVD-based training workshop called “The Guest” for members. This workshop will illustrate just how easy it is to offer ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Customer service still dogs Telstra
CIO Magazine
Telstra chief executive, David Thodey, has conceded that progress remains slow on improving the telco's customer service record, despite making it a top priority in the last 18 months. Speaking at an analyst briefing on the telco's financial results ...
Mobiles prop up Telstra bottom lineSydney Morning Herald

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