Tip For Good Customer Service
Get Determined To Delight

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Businesses that strive to secure a solid customer base, one that provides the luxury of recurring sales opportunities, understand fully the importance of customer service.

The following tips are key to good quality customer service:

1. Be able to hang your hat on service - make service a "given". Inspect what you expect from your employees. Inspecting activities and behaviors sends a clear message that you are serious about what you expect.
2. Place a premium on good customer service - reward and recognize employees for delighting your customers. It's not enough that they are satisfied, they should be "delighted".
3. Hire only those people whom you can entrust with your name. Ask yourself, "How would they treat my best friends mother?"
   "As far as customers are concerned you are the company. This is not a burden, but the core of your job. You hold in your hands the power to keep customers coming back – perhaps even to make or break the company."
   - Unknown
4. Ensure salespeople only sell products that are needed. Needs-based selling says loudly to your customers, "I care about you and I'll take care of you."
5. Make your customers a part of your team. This is particularly an important tip for good customer service.

   Ask customers for referrals. Ask customers to participate in focus groups. Ask customers to complete customer service surveys. Ask customers to address your staff as a guest speaker.

6. Incorporate your service message into every meeting, at every level of the organization. Make certain that the "spirit and the act" of customer service shines throughout the entire organization. Make Service Sacred.

The good news, and the bad news, is that most organizations fail miserably to fully leverage each customer interaction.

Many businesses are quite literally leaving money on the table by not adopting one tip for good customer service.

Organizations who lose sight of their customers present a wonderful opportunity for their competitors - to do what they failed to do.

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