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Business Definition for: Customer Service

  • the way in which an organization deals with its customers. Customer service is most evident in sales and after-sales service, but should infuse all the processes in the value chain. Good customer service is the result of adopting customer focus. Poor customer service can be a product of poor customer relations.

Additional Resources

Customer Retention Strategies - Train Your Team For Customer Service Success
As a customer service manager, your goal is to surround yourself with a like-minded and highly goal motivated customer service team. You most likely have already achieved this goal of a customer-focused team though-out an interview process and have hired the employees that you feel will best fit within the...
Tags: Strategy, Team, Customer Service, Associated Content, Customer Service Team, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-06-08
Perfect Phrases For Customer Service
Every manager and employee has heard the phrase "The customer is always right." But let's face it. Sometimes the customer is misinformed or confused - or just downright difficult to deal with. Even so, customer service is the single most important key to success in today's highly competitive marketplace. Perfect...
Tags: Customer Service, McGraw-Hill Companies, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
Book chapters 2007-10-01
Motivate Your Team for Outstanding Customer Service: Six Secrets of Customer Service Team Motivation
Providing outstanding customer service is one of the most rewarding yet challenging activities within the organization. Exceptional organizations that provide outstanding customer service will experience the following benefits: increased customer satisfaction, increased revenues, increased repeat and referral customer traffic, less employee turnover, increased profits. So how does one support and...
Tags: Team, Customer Service, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-01-01
Differentiate Your Business Based On Outstanding Customer Service
There is so much lip service paid to customer service that even those businesses that provide lousy customer service begin believing their own hype about how the customer comes first. The fact is that most businesses do a very poor job of serving their customers. Many have simply fooled themselves...
Tags: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Customer Service, Product Marketing, Fact
White papers 1999-07-05
15 Customer Service No-Nos
Customer service that is perceived as rude is not intentional and often is the result of absent-mindedness or carelessness on behalf of an employee. Either way, bad customer service can translate into lower sales and lost business. This paper lists 15 biggest sins of customer service employees today along with...
Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Product Marketing, Customer Service, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
White papers
Measure Customer Service Levels
Customer service is an important aspect of business as it can bring customers back again and again or send them and their friends away. By combining customer service, marketing and quality, you can build good relationships with your customers that will last beyond a single sale. Once you have customers,...
Tags: Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Customer Service, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2006-11-23
Complaint Cant Reach Customer Service
Not happy with customer care service? Use this letter to complains to an online service that you can never get a customer service representative on the phone.
Tags: Customer Service, Customer Service Representative, Best Sample Letters, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Perfect Customer Service: Bigger is NOT Better
A question which arises is that why do companies have customer service departments? Some common reasons are to solve disputes, to answer questions from prospective customers, and to update customer accounts. This article explains, how a bigger customer service department was the last thing needed. If management developed alternative solutions...
Tags: Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Customer Service Department, Customer Service
White papers 2003-01-01
Customer Service Skills Training
In today's competitive environment, great products and an effective sales force are not enough. Customer service skills training from Maritz teaches customer service skills that go beyond customer satisfaction to deliver customer loyalty - and reduce turnover by developing a more competent and motivated staff.
Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Training, Customer Service
White papers 2003-01-01
Computer Service Repair Business and Providing Customer Service During All Aspects of a Sale
Customer service is a crucial part of the computer service repair business, because computer service repair is about working with customers to solve problems. All aspects of computer repair should be focused on the customer and his problem. There are three phases of customer service, and very often the first...
Tags: Computer Service, Computer, Customer Service, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Productivity, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers
PeopleSoft Puts Personal Touch on Customer Service; Customer Service Advocates to Expedite Customer Service Issues
NEW ORLEANS--BUSINESS WIRE--August 30, 1999--
Tags: customer service, PeopleSoft Inc.
Research articles 1999-08-30
Servicing Your Accounts
Good product service involves many areas. Some examples of good customer service are keeping the customer in mind when recommending which products to buy, and not going for the high ticket sale when one knows that sooner or later the customer is going to realize that what he got is...
Tags: Customer Service, Consultant, Customer, Product Service, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Microsoft Office, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
White papers 2003-01-01
Customer Service: It Starts at Home
Customer service has been a passion for me and for Southwest Airlines for a very, very long time. Southwest may be known throughout the U.S. and, indeed, throughout the world for having low fares. But very few people talk about the quality of our customer service -- which is superb....
Tags: customer service, Southwest Airlines Co.
Research articles 1998-05-01
CashTech Chooses eGain OnDemand to Provide Better Customer Service Worldwide
eGain Communications Corporation (OTC BB: EGAN), a leading provider of customer service and contact center software for in-house or on-demand deployment, announced today that CashTech Solutions has chosen eGain Service OnDemandTM, the hosted version of eGain® ServiceTM 7, the company's customer service software suite, to enhance its online customer service,...
Tags: eGain Communications Corp., on-demand
Research articles 2005-03-24
Avnet Makes Customer Service a Year-Round Priority; National Customer Service Week Shines Spotlight on Company's Ongoing Initiatives
PHOENIX -- Although Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT) has many fun activities planned for its employees during National Customer Service Week (Oct. 4-8), the importance of customer satisfaction -- and even more important, customer loyalty -- will not be forgotten at week's end.
Tags: AvNet Inc., customer service
Research articles 2004-10-04
Ten Rules for Great Customer Service
Negative buying experiences are almost always linked to shoddy customer service. These days it's rare to find good customer support, even though most businesses claim that they put people first. But customer service hasn't gone the way of the dodo. In fact, after consumer groups and the media took potshots...
Tags: Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Product Marketing, AllBusiness.com, Customer Service, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
White papers
A New Look at Measuring Customer Service
A common measurement of the performance of stocked inventory is the customer service level. It measures how often the items one has committed to stock when customers want them. One can't improve the service provided to customers unless the failures are carefully analyzed. Review each customer service problem with the...
Tags: Customer Service, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Customer Support Plus Customer Interaction
You can't have customer service without customer interaction. It's simply not possible. In fact, resolving an issue typically requires many separate contacts with the customer. The key to great service is to make sure that issue information and customer contacts are linked closely at every level. By doing this, and...
Tags: Contact, Customer Interaction, Remedy Corp., It Management, Product Marketing, It service Management, Marketing
White papers 2004-05-20
SAP: Offering CRM Relevance Over All Customer Touch Points
I am ever on the lookout for examples of solutions that take the way companies serve their customer base to the next level. There are lots of claims of improvement in the giant industry that is customer service, but as we all know, the proof is in the customers' perceptions,...
Tags: CRM, SAP AG
Research articles 2008-02-01
Microsoft CRM and Great Plains make payment processing GO: a payment-processing leader learns the benefits of back-end integration.(BEST PRACTICES FOR CUSTOMER-CENTRIC ORGANIZATIONS)
What does a vendor of customer service products do when it runs into customer service issues of its own? What does a vendor of customer service products do when it runs into customer service issues of its own?
Tags: benefit, CRM, customer service, Great Plains Software, leader, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, payment, payment processing
Research articles 2005-07-01
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