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		<title>The Power of Good Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A front office staff a 4-star hotel in the city of Medan had done something very impressive to me. Many years ago when I first visited this city for an office job, I do not know where to stay, so I handed it to a friend in Medan to pick a good hotel, clean for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">A front office staff a 4-star hotel in the city of Medan had done something very impressive to me. Many years ago when I first visited this city for an office job, I do not know where to stay, so I handed it to a friend in Medan to pick a good hotel, clean for me. In the afternoon I arrived and front office personnel check in with friendly service. I am a woman on duty alone to the city that is still foreign to me, so that these officers as a friendly welcome to me that makes me more comfortable feeling. The next day when I crossed the lobby to go to the office, the clerk of the distance back to the friendly greeting me by name and my office: &#8220;Good morning Mrs. Emy &#8230; go to the bank &#8230;&#8230; yes, congratulations on duty &#8230;.&#8221;. Well, I was very surprise, this big hotel can not remember the name of his guest? If the name when the guest uses the phone from the room was okay, because they see the code and match the name of guest rooms. But they remember faces and names as well as guests with friendly institutions. Thus each time I leave or arrive to the hotel for a few days always get a friendly greeting. <span id="more-368"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Small things done by the clerk told me this big impact. Each charge to the city of Medan on the next time I have always stayed at this hotel, and every one asked the opinion of a good hotel in the city of Medan, I mentioned the name of this hotel. Incredible is not it?.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you study theory or tips or tricks the service excellence, you will find that one important factor in providing excellent service to customers is the service friendly and sincere officers from front liner.<br />
What can be learned from the concierge service above is:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. Friendliness and sincerity<br />
Friendliness is not only measured by its width smile and warm greeting but more important is the sincerity and a sense of trying to help. The sweet lady front office staff had greeted me at the time the first time also had time to ask: &#8220;Excuse me, are mothers we&#8217;d stayed at this hotel?&#8221;, I&#8217;ve never even say this is my first visit in this city. While serving the requirements of checking in the clerk says: &#8220;Oh, welcome to the city of Medan Mother. Hopefully the mother at ease and happy to live in this town. If there is any information you need to know everything about this city, where to eat or buy souvenirs, please contact us, &#8220;she said warmly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. First impressions are good<br />
Services or service is a service sales transaction in which the time of sale in which the services purchased are consumed at the same time, so the first impression is something very important. If you already took out the words less polite to a guest so that very moment the words are received, entered in the minds of visitors, and forming a negative opinion about your services and even your company. Even then your apology is rather difficult to simply forget. I am here as guests get a first impression that was impressive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. Appreciation to customers<br />
There are various forms of service excellence award, one of which is the customer&#8217;s name when communicating. An article about the service I have ever read tells the story of a hotel guest who was also very impressed with the services of a hotel. The guest was visiting for the second time in the same hotel eight months later. On the second visit he was greeted by a receptionist with the officer&#8217;s name and once asked if his son were eventually accepted the desired university. Because on the first visit short and had no communication was telling guests are waiting for the announcement of new admissions to her first child.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Are you not going to feel &#8220;seen and appreciated&#8221; as a customer if treated like this? Greetings using the name and some information you know about customers, please use and feel the impact.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4. Promotion of &#8220;word of mouth&#8221; from satisfied customers<br />
As I mentioned above, then I am without pay has been advertise the hotel to many people. They do not know who I am, I am a builder service excellence at a large bank, and how much time I gave an example of this in front of the class to say with 30 participants, then the 30 people who heard about the hotel. If the mouth 30 participants from different branches are telling everyone in the branch office of origin, what is the multiplication of this news spread from mouth to mouth?.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Increase your services since the first gate in the front office staff: receptionist, call center, customer service center, hot line service, or any name. With excellent service then your customers will be satisfied and feel at home is always in touch with your company.</p>
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		<title>The Secret Recipe to Serve Women</title>
		<link>http://www.terrancehoule.com/2010/05/the-secret-recipe-to-serve-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 05:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women, often complained of as being complex and difficult to understand. In fact, she is a very large market share and potential. Actually, if you understand well the characteristics of women, then you will be able to control aspects of their service.
Here are some key characteristics of women in terms of service:
Enjoys complaint
Women, is basically [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Women, often complained of as being complex and difficult to understand. In fact, she is a very large market share and potential. Actually, if you understand well the characteristics of women, then you will be able to control aspects of their service.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are some key characteristics of women in terms of service:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoys complaint<br />
Women, is basically an emotional creature. So, women usually do not distinguish between a business relationship with personal relationships, they view both are equally as personal and emotional experience. The implication, then when they experience an unpleasant experience, they tend to more quickly frustrated. <span id="more-254"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Based on research from Amdocs for example, shows that women tend to be less tolerant of bad interactions. More than 60% stated that they would go after experiencing no more than two bad experiences, compared with 54% male. Men tend to be more willing to forgive poor service compared to women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Word of Mouth<br />
It is no secret if she&#8217;d rather talk than men. More often we find a group of women were ngerumpi, compared with a group of men are not? If a group of women has been met, then everything is discussed, including a bad experience when obtaining service!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Amdocs is still based on research, more women than men, who stated that they would send a complaint or to tell their friends about a bad service. It should be noted that word of mouth it has a multiplier effect, so from one woman to other women, and so on. So, when you give poor service to women, the effects become more risky.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Women More Loyal<br />
However, if you&#8217;ve managed to ensnare the hearts of women, then they will be loyal to you. Because women are emotional creatures, so they really uphold a good relationship. If you managed to establish good relationships with them, then they will forever continue to be with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In addition, women who are satisfied customers not only loyal, but they also tend to advocate, the promoter company for free. They will promote to friends and relatives to post on the blog. So, this woman is extremely important to the customer role.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, thus, serve customers in a woman, you must develop strategies that sniper. Here is an important component in serving women:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. Get Into Their Mind<br />
To understand the woman, then you should be able to read the minds of women: what they need, and what they want. Perform customer segmentation against women in your life, learn about the preferences and tendencies which are owned by their respective groups. Other than through market research, this can also be shown through direct interaction with customers. Perform customer visits or company visits, until the discussion or brainstorming session involving the customer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. Emotionally Sell<br />
Women need intimacy, and therefore you should be able to touch them emotionally. High quality is important, but the emotional value of a product also plays an important role. For example, emphasize family values.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More importantly, establishes a relationship with them intensively, so that business and personal relationships become increasingly blurred. They look up to you not as a company, but a friend. For example, by providing a forum for customers, held a gala dinner or a customer gathering, all of which can increase the emotional connection with customers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Third. Recovery is a Must<br />
As already disclosed, women tend to be less tolerant of poor service. Therefore, when you give a poor service or unsatisfactory for the customer, then immediately do the recovery. This recovery should be able to restore the condition of customers as before, so do not get frustrated, even better if they then turn around so satisfied.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you do not do the recovery should be, then do not be surprised if your customers are and then disappear, and your reputation in the market then falls.</p>
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		<title>Keeping your Customer through Customer Loyalty</title>
		<link>http://www.terrancehoule.com/2010/02/keeping-your-customer-through-customer-loyalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What incisively is the best-kept secret behind unbelievably eminent business concern ? Is it conserving with the trends? Having a fantabulous manpower that will be sure your companion is acting in tip top conformation? Or having a firm customer base who won&#8217;t only hold on dating from to you whenever they require your merchandises or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">What incisively is the best-kept secret behind unbelievably eminent business concern ? Is it conserving with the trends? Having a fantabulous manpower that will be sure your companion is acting in tip top conformation? Or having a firm customer base who won&#8217;t only hold on dating from to you whenever they require your merchandises or avails? Loyal customers are as well the ones who will assist your companion acquire more attending from others through testimonial of mouth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is why a lot of eminent companions today just enjoy applying the loyalty merchandising conception as a key scheme for them to be capable to hold adrift in today’s extremely competitory marketplace. The commitment merchandising scheme is really just supported a genuinely elementary premise which is to build up a firmer kinship with each and everybody of the companions finest clients, be sure that they&#8217;re always pleased and fulfilled with the company’s productions and avails as they&#8217;re the ones who will most likely stick to you for the longer time. Once you&#8217;ve already built up a hearty kinship with your best customers you&#8217;ll at present be assured of more profitable years before for the companion. <span id="more-61"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Extremely dependant on whichever typecast of market position is the typecast of loyalty marketing accusative that you should inculcate.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For your company’s loyalty marketing objectives, here is a beneficial begin:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. Frequency. You must know your clients leverages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is where you should be sure that your company is constantly attaining an attempt to ameliorate its loyalty marketing avails also as making a loyalty merchandising service that is implausibly difficult for your loyal clients to ever baulk, foreclosing the companion from ever mislaying their valued clients.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. Being capable to build up a firm two-way kinship with their valued clients.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s significant that it&#8217;s viewed as by the clients as a two-way kinship so that they&#8217;ll not think that your company is only afterward his or her profit. Your clients require to experience that you actually care for what they want and what they require hence your companion should always check into advance raising your loyalty marketing scheme by perpetually searching on your customers wants and demands to be able to ameliorate client gratification with your companion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. Being able to create and “advocate”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Loyal clients who will really do a few free commitment marketing for you by adverting your brand to fresh customers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to commitment merchandising, whether your accusative is to be able to hold the cartel of your valuated clients or to just coax them into accretive their buying action from your companion, it&#8217;s extremely significant for you to be capable to create a beneficial commitment marketing strategy that will assist create a good kinship between the companion and your valuated clients. The basic principle behindhand loyalty marketing heavy trusts on holding up with these 4 commitment marketing elements:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Dialogue Marketing &#8211; where you&#8217;ll inject commitment marketing by making a point that the correct messages achieve the citizenry to whom they&#8217;re meant for at the right clocking.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Customer Behavior Tracking &#8211; when it comes to commitment marketing, this is a really orderly approach for your companion to be capable to keep track also as depot the clients’ expending as well as their reaction conducts. This is really a consolidation of the proper mix of commitment marketing communication theory between the companion and the client.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Measurement – this is the commitment marketing component wherein you really program to keep track also as beat the companions key performance objectives as well as the clients’ keeping analytic thinking information that really go against your companions commitment selling objectives</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Customer Rewards and profits platforms – for loyalty merchandising, this is a extremely efficient program for your firm clients to really earn or reap advantages from your companionship that&#8217;s really specifically agreed to every person clients demands and preferences.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">* Loyalty booklet – this is barely an added up loyalty merchandising element wherein your company will hand out these commitment booklets to your clients so that they&#8217;ll see the freebees that they might get if they carry on on being your company’s loyal client.</p>
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