Showing posts with label customer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label customer. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2009

Secret to Developing Excellent Customer Service in Your Business - Part 2

To achieve a good customer service, your company must have good representatives in the field. You need to train your employees well since they are the ones who represent your company in the eyes of your customers. You need to train your employees on how they should handle customers and respond to their inquiries.

Tell your employees that the phrase "I don't know" is illegal to be delivered to your customers, yet replace it with something like "I can get the information for you" and not to fail what they have promise. Teach your employees to never reject what a customer requires even though what s/he require is beyond the employee's knowledge or responsibility. When that happens, tell your employees to direct the customer to the right person to answer his/her concern.

Customers need a feeling that the company's employees have interests in their problems and have found every way possible to solve it. Therefore, never imply that the solution that your employees offer is the only way and they have no choice but to accept it. Avoid the phrase "This is the only way" and use "The best option is..." instead. This phrase brings positive meaning that will meet customers' expectation for options and alternatives.

Enthusiastic employees are also a positive point to your customers. Your employees need to show that they enjoy their job and are ready to help whenever your customers need them. Do not show the faces which consider that customers are troubles, but greet them with best smiles and friendly words like "What can I do for you?" However, do not overdo the enthusiasm or it may feel fake to your customers.

Secret to Developing Excellent Customer Service in Your Business - Part 1

How do you know if you have done an outstanding customer service? The answer to that question can only be answered by your customers since they are the ones who directly affected by your services. Conduct research on the opinions of your customers about your company to know whether your customers are satisfied with your customer service or not.

There are companies that customers find easy to deal with and there are those which do not. Which kind of company is yours in the eyes of your customers? If your company is the former one, then your company is practicing what is called customer-focused behavior. However, if your company is included to the later one, then you must improve your customer service.

To be regarded as a company which is easy to have business with, a company must know the customers' needs and expectations. Once you know their needs and expectations, act appropriately to meet their expectations to improve your customer service quality.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

How to Conduct Effective Marketing For a Successful Business - Part 2

After your target market is determined, now your job is to find the best and most effective way in reaching your targets. There are several mediums in delivering your campaign such as newspaper, TV, poster, radio, internet, etc. Remember that each medium of advertising has its own characteristics and affects different groups of people. So, make sure that you choose the right medium for your advertisement.

Once you have launched your advertisements to the outside world, prepare yourself or your employees to respond to the questions and queries come from your potential customers after they see your advertisement. Do not just be able to read out the sentences from your advertisement. You must also be able to explain comprehensively about your product. Prepare yourself to answer to the question of why your potential customers should buy your product instead of what they buy. Those people come to you to get more reasons on why they should buy your product because they are obviously interested already by coming to you.

You do need lots of hard works to promote your business when you first start it. You may find most of your time is dedicated to the activity and hardly have time for rest. However, with never ending perseverance you can get the surprising result. Keep in mind that you also need to do it in the most effective way.

Monday, July 13, 2009

How to Conduct Effective Marketing For a Successful Business - Part 1

Boosting your business is not only about working harder, but more importantly is working smarter. You may work really hard, but if you do it in inefficiently in inappropriate ways, then you will only waste lots of your energy and money for minimum result.

An important factor in boosting your business is having an effective marketing campaign. The way you advertise your business is very crucial. A good campaign will bring customers in your way. Some business owners may think that cutting the advertisement budget in hard times is a reasonable action to do in order to survive. However, there are those who also believe that your business will need the same amount of advertisement budget in hard times to keep the customer coming.

The most important thing in doing an effective marketing is by knowing exactly who your customers are. You must identify your possible customer before designing your marketing plan. Who are the potential customers for your product or service? You may find your market ranges very broad targeting almost everyone, but you can focus your product to target chiefly on particular groups such as senior citizens, working moms, teenagers, or children.