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Customer service representatives are heroes too

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On January 21, a customer service agent for 39DollarGlasses.com has been lauded as a hero after some quick thinking. Customer service representative Donna Petrosini was speaking with Karen Ford, a customer since 2008, when Ford began to slur her words and dropped the phone.

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Focus on Customer Service in 2010 (Finally?)

Customers Rock!

2010 may just be the year that companies start to focus on their customers and serving them well. Now, I am cautiously optimistic about this focus on customer service, but let me tell you why I feel this way. Brands are using a focus on customers as a competitive differentiator in their advertisements.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Working on customer service skills

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. I walked into my local branch of Wachovia Bank to speak with a mortgage representative about one of my real estate customers, and since I was early, I had to wait until the mortgage representative was out of her meeting.

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‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service

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According to a Price Grabber survey, 45 percent of consumers say they are going to spend less on holiday shopping compared to what they spent in 2010. What are some of the incentives businesses offer to maximize a customer’s buying experience? Luckily 49 percent say they are going to spend the same amount.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Help your customer service staff.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The pleasant voice on the Zappos end assured her that she could return the dress, and there would be no delivery or return charges; just that the customer would have to “touch&# the box to return it.

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3 Customer Service Lessons (Past, Present and Future) from A Christmas Carol

Tricia Morris

Lessons from the holiday classic can be applied to almost any topic, in this case, customer service: 1. Your Customer Service Past Cannot Be Changed. A brand or organization’s customer service past cannot be changed, no matter how some wish it could. There is No Time Like the Customer Service Present. . “He

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How Will Automation, AI and IoT Shape User Experience?

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(This article is originally published at IT-Online ) According to Gartner, customer experience (CX) – more than products or solutions – is the new battlefront for business, with 81% of marketers saying that by 2020 they expect to be competing mostly or completely on the basis of CX. but, ‘what will customers want?’