Good Customer Service Consist of These “7” Elements -  Do you practice them?

Good customer service is the backbone of an organization's success and without it, any company is destined to fail.

The reason is simple: the best marketing is done through word of mouth. If you are only getting negative feedback (from unhappy customers), you will only suffer in your business endeavors.

Here are the seven key elements and why you should practice them.

The 7 Essential Elements to Good Customer Service

1. Answering the phone: Answer the phone every time no matter what. Whether this means getting an automated answering service, or using call forwarding to a cell phone, you will want to implement consistent phone answering during business hours.
2. Listen, listen, and listen more: If a customer has a complaint, make sure you listen to it in order to come up with an agreeable solution. Listening often separates good service from bad customer service, so make sure you pay attention to the voice of every customer.
3. Deal with it: Through your listening skills, you should be able to formulate a solution to every problem that comes up. If you want to show your customers that you actually care about them, you will want to match each of their complaints with a solution.
4. Only promise what you can do: Integrity and honesty are keys of good service so unless you can actually do something, don't promise it. Consumers that feel like they are being ‘played' will find a more honesty company to buy from so in order to keep good customer service just be honest.

1. Train ALL of your staff: In order to bring the very best of good customer service to the table, you will want to make sure your entire staff is trained in proper good customer service. If you do this, you will have a much higher chance of actually performing good customer service no matter what comes up or no matter which employee needs to be called upon.
2. Always be helpful: Businesses don't always have to be about profit gains right this second, and if you want good customer service, you may want to consider being helpful to all of your buyers all of the time. Good service means providing for others in times when you won't make money off of them.
3. Give something away: Good service can go beyond just listening and being helpful in all your actions. In fact, the best known customer service representatives give things away. Even if you can only afford to give away a cheap present or token, do it. Let your consumers know you want their business.

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