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Guest Post: Transactional vs Relational Customer Service

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Essentially, transactional vs. relational customer service is the difference between a one-time purchase and lifelong customer loyalty. . Transactional customer service is low-effort and short-term: it focuses on getting the issue resolved efficiently, sometimes at the expense of experience.? .

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Leveraging Customer Service Survey Questions to Boost Your Support Strategy

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Through carefully crafted service survey questions, businesses can glean insights into customer sentiment, measure the impact of their customer service team, and understand the shades of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Whether through a simple “How satisfied were you with our service?”

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-30-2022

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Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. This is Where Rewards Programs Lose Most of Their Members by Jenn McMillen. Yet 44% of companies say they’re more keenly focused on customer acquisition and just 16% on retention. Here are three ways to adjust.

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Small Business Saturday – a boon for local retail stores

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Possibly Related Posts: Bringing more customer service strategies to traditional shopping stores My son was raised using the Internet and whenever we. Retail reward programs no guarantee of customer loyalty Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy. photo credit: fsgm.

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‘Tis the season to rev up the customer service

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Possibly Related Posts: Tis the season for customer service We’re approaching home plate for the 2010 shopping season with. Retail reward programs no guarantee of customer loyalty Most retail organizations use discounts to entice customers to buy.