What Is Customer Service? People often ask, “What is customer service and why is it important?” To answer this, you have to recognize that customers come in many shapes, sizes and types, and from a variety of diverse backgrounds. Each customer has his or her own values and beliefs and comes with specific needs, wants and … Read more
More Typical Customer Contact Center Representative Competencies In a previous blog article, I discussed crucial competencies call center and customer care center applicants and employees must possess to be successful when interacting with customers. In this article, I share more typical customer contact center representative competencies. I do this because I believe that it is essential … Read more
Typical Customer Contact Center Representative Competencies To perform well in a call center/customer care center, employees must possess some very special competencies or capacities/abilities to perform required job tasks. Because of the specific requirements of the job, organizations must look for candidates possessing many of these typical customer contact representative competencies as possible. It is essential that call … Read more
Is Customer Service Week the Best Time to Show Customer Appreciation? Have you noticed how many articles and references are flying around stores and on the Internet regarding the importance of Customer Service Week? Service providers are wearing shirts and hats and articles abound on blogs and on various business sites stressing the importance of customer … Read more
Customer Service Representative – Active Listening Tips Before you can effectively listen to your customers or clients as a customer service representative you must first prepare to listen. That is because active listening is a learned skill and is different from the passive action of simply hearing sounds. Not only do you need to take … Read more
Two Strategies for Reducing Stress in a Customer Service Environment In a struggling economy, customer service managers around the world realize the value of providing service on demand and maintaining customer-centric environments. With the competition for customers, many organizations are making ongoing advances in system efficiency to address customer needs. Tasks that used to take … Read more
Taking A Customer for Granted Can Lead To Customer Service Breakdowns Taking a customer for granted is something that a customer service representative should never do. That is because customers are your reason for existing as an employee. They are also the key element in your organization’s success. For that reason, you must consciously go … Read more
Customer Service Representatives Have to Power to Help or Hurt Their Organization You may have heard that one person can make a difference in the world. Well, one customer service representative can make a difference in the level of success that is achieved by an organization. Think about the fact that if you are in … Read more
Building Customer Relationships – Four Crucial Factors That Impact Service Outcomes Customer relationships are impacted by many factors that begin once a customer and customer service representative or other employee comes into contact with a current or potential customer. These people are either internal customers who work for the organization or external customers from outside … Read more
Strong Customer Relations Result From Excellent Customer Service Providing excellent customer service should be the goal of everyone in your organization, not just front line customer service representatives. Ultimately, customer satisfaction and customer retention are about how well you care about your job and the quality of customer service you provide. By working closely with … Read more
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