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Top Ten Tips for Outstanding Customer Service

By: Martin Haworth

Remember the 80:20 rule? You may not get everything perfectly right, but getting most right will be much, much better than the majority of your competition. These Top Ten Tips for Customer Service will get you well on the way.

  1. Be Your Customer

    Live the life of your customer and experience what they do. Stand in line, call
    your call-centre, soak up feedback.

  2. Give Memorable Service

    Make the life's mission of everyone (yes, everyone!) to be customer focused -
    even those seemingly out of direct line of fire.

  3. Have Product Available

    Generally, you can't sell it if you haven't got it. Work your systems hard and
    focused to get product there on time.

  4. Listen Hard to Complaints

    Complaints are a wonderful gift - it is feedback of the highest order. Enjoy
    them and learn fast.

  5. Enable Your People

    Enable and encourage your people to give an immediate and generous customer
    response.

  6. React Fast

    Make sure that you and your people work with pace and immediacy with customer
    issues.

  7. Be Systems Focused

    Ask, 'What would my customer think of this - would it give brilliant service?'
    If not, reshape the system fast.

  8. Be Curious

    Encourage everyone in your team to overhear, be nosy, ask questions and feed
    back information from your customers.

  9. Research the Marketplace

    Do more in your own business from what you experience as a customer elsewhere.
    Encourage your people to do this too.

  10. Have Fun

    Have fun with your customers. It builds relationships. Relationships are
    business.


Ten Tips to success, in an easy to use framework. Will you take up the
challenge?

Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach. He works worldwide,
mainly by phone, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He
has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website,
coaching-businesses-to-success.com
(Note to editors. This article may be edited for use in your publication or
newsletter as long as a live link to the website is included)

...helping you, to help your people, to help your business grow...

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