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Customer Service for Dummies

By Keith Bailey & Karen Leland

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... over 300 pages of sound customer service knowledge and advice that will give you a foundation to make your customers happy, and keep them coming back with money flowing to buy more products and services.

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You spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to attract customers and convince them to spend their hard earned money with your business … but the real job has just begun. The sad reality for many businesses is that once a customer is in the door there is no program to keep them coming back.

Too many consumers feel the service they get from businesses as a whole is poor or floundering. It is the business that not only has a well-developed customer satisfaction program but also makes sure every employee understands the importance of the customer that ends up with a huge advantage over their competitors.

If you want to be part of the elite who not only understand the true value of existing customers -- but also want to do something about it--Customer Service For Dummies is an excellent book to help make those hard earned marketing dollars work to your advantage. This book (from the popular For Dummies series) is well written, fun to read, and goes beyond the standard "Thank you for doing business with us." The authors' approach to developing a customer service program is so common sense, in fact, that it reminds us of what we expect as customers from the businesses we buy products and services from ourselves.

Customer Service For Dummies grasps the necessity to develop a customer service program, and it covers what you need to know, from how to evaluate what your customers want to how to train employees to give good service. And when it comes to the "how" to gather information and convert it to action, Customer Service For Dummies even provides samples to use in surveying your customers and hints on using voice mail. There are excellent suggestions and samples for establishing and rating your customer service goals and capitalizing on your reputation as an outstanding service provider.

The theory of Customer Service For Dummies follows the line that when customer problems occur -- and don't kid yourself. No matter how good you are there will be problems from time-to-time, you'll be able to better deal with customers and, as the saying goes, make lemonade out lemons.

Customer Service For Dummies looks at the whole customer service approach and gives you ideas on how to use those same concepts with your employees. Customers and employees are your two most valuable assets, assets which few businesses can get along without. Keep both of them harmonious and you have a winning combination. Once you have your pristine customer service program working, the ideas in this book will help you keep it in place as your business grows.

Customer Service For Dummies is over 300 pages of sound customer service knowledge and advice that will give you a foundation to make your customers happy. And most important, keep them coming back with money flowing to buy more products and services. Every business gives customer service. The only question you have to face is, is the service good, bad, or indifferent. If you think there's room for improvement in the service satisfaction levels your customers receive, Customer Service For Dummies is an great book to get you on track and heading towards higher revenues and profits!

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