It’s no secret that customer service employees have to deal with angry customers nearly about 80% of the time. In this digital age only a few people will call your support to inquire about a product or service when most of the answers can be easily found online. While you obviously can’t control problems caused by malfunctioning products or service errors, you can control how you respond to complaining customers. The stats show why you should take them seriously: Nearly 70% of customers quit doing business with an organization because they felt they were treated rudely or with indifference. 95% of customers share bad experiences with others, 54% share bad experiences with 5+ people, 45% share negative reviews on social media. 66% of customers are most frustrated from interacting with employees who are rude or unfriendly.
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Customer Service Etiquette Tips: How to Keep Your Customers Happy (Infographic)
“Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.” – Samuel Smiles There might be a huge number of companies offering the same products or services. The critical difference is ultimately how you make people feel when they do business with you and interact with your brand. No matter your business, excellence in customer service etiquette will always set you apart and give you the edge over your competition. In fact, customer service agents can be the first and only contact point for customers and are therefore the face of a company. Yet many of them are very often blind to the fact that they are losing business every day by not knowing or simply ignoring the essential service etiquette.
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Communication is one of the most difficult areas of human life. Even in personal relationships it can become quite a struggle, what to say about customer relationships where in less than a few minutes you have to establish a connection, preferably a pleasant one, with a person whom you never met in your life and whom you know nothing about. And people are different, they have different views, values and expectations. How to communicate with them effectively? Building an effective communication is about getting to understand the customers’ needs and wishes. Despite all the diversity, we all as human beings have the same needs and desires.
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