Sat.Mar 26, 2011 - Fri.Apr 01, 2011

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Empower employees to deliver better customer service

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The front line employees are often the representatives who will have to make decisions when it comes to customer complaints, customer questions, and overall customer satisfaction. The art of customer service stretches well beyond the product, the prices, and the reliability of an organization. It encompasses everything about a business – right down to the allowed 140 Twitter characters.

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IP video by the numbers: how to make money on IP video

Customer Interactions

'It’s hard enough winning a video system project. But what’s even tougher is turning a profit on one. There are many factors contributing to margin erosion. I’ve heard professional system integrators declare that although they won a big name account, they had to nearly "buy the business." And at the end of the day, they were shocked at the number of visits and fixes they had to apply.

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customer service and social media: mix the old and the new

Very Best Service

'Social media customer service With the exponential growth of social networks, social media and customer service are now closely associated. The challenges are numerous and require significant investment in platforms, people and procedures. Whilst the first interaction with customers is now very public it is little different in practice from the handling of a belligerent customer on the shop floor.

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Dealing with difficult customers

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The only thing worse than an angry and aggressive client or customer is a customer service representative responding with anger, aggression and frustration of his own. As a matter of fact, that is the worst someone can do for a situation since it only results in more anger. As the responses escalate by all parties, the situation can quickly get out of control.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Don’t cut the customer service budget

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The economy leaves customer service budgets strained, and more than one company has trimmed their services back, but according to the Institute of Customer Service, chief executive Jo Causon, quality service is even more important in times like this. When money is tight, people are much more concerned where and how they spend. As an example, let us consider an airport parking garage.