Small Business
13 steps to succeed in customer service
by Peter Switzer
- Humour works in advertising
- Think about how to best service your customers
- Target the premium end of the market to achieve the margins to bankroll promotional and value-added offerings for general customer base
- Have a system for handling complaints
- Solve a consumer problem
- Think about how you can adapt products to suit changing market needs
- Do the thinking for your customers and then market your bright ideas to them
- Leverage off the publicity effect of dealing with high profile customers
- Be careful about being too narrowly focused with your customer base
- Don't be too dependent on one big customer. If you lose him or her you could be up 'you know what' creek without the proverbial paddle
- Analyse the special characteristics of the users of businesses you want as your customers
- If you serve big customers well, it can result in plenty of referral business
- Be dedicated to exceptional consumer service.
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Published on: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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