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Benefits Of Customer Service Experience

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Too often excellent customer service is seen as just doing whatever the customer asks. It isn 't. And that 's not realistic. You won’t always be able to give your customers everything they want whenever they want it. Other books you’ll read will tell you to just do it, give the customer what they want, just make it happen, whatever it is. That’s not realistic. You know it and I know it. Just because you can’t do it, or because something won’t happen right away it doesn’t excuse you continuing to build the customer service experience. Even in those moments when the customer is on hold, or when they’re waiting for what is being worked on, customer service is still happening. And keeping your customers up-to-date on the events taking place is critical to ensuring that an exceptional experience happens even when customers can’t get instant service. Every organization can have exceptional customer service, even those working with the most complex customer processes, if they can provide effective status updates to the customer: (As I go through these, I think of banks, mortgage companies, airlines, telecoms, and other service companies with traditionally bad customer service reputations.) The Need for Useful, Specific Status Updates Customers want to be able to track the status of their process/service/product. They want to be able to get an update on that item when they contact your organization. Think about it, have you ever had someone complain because you were too specific in

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