FAQ

Principles of good customer service. Listening, understanding your customer’s needs, thanking the customer and promoting a positive, helpful and friendly environment will ensure they leave with a great impression. A happy customer will return often and is likely to spend more.

The three Cs of customer satisfaction: Consistency, consistency, and consistency. It may not seem sexy, but consistency is the secret ingredient to making customers happy. However, it’s difficult to get right and requires top-leadership attention.

What is great customer service? Great customer service means following best practices like valuing customers’ time, having a pleasant attitude, and providing knowledgeable and resourceful resources, but that you also take things a step further to exceed — rather than meet — expectations.

There are four main customer needs that an entrepreneur or small business must consider. These are price, quality, choice and convenience.

  • Answer your phone
  • Keep your promises.
  • Listen to your customers.
  • Give complaints your full attention.
  • Take the extra step.
  • Give your customers something extra.

Responding to customer feedback increases satisfaction because it shows customers that you listen to what they have to say about your business instead of simply seeing them as a name on a receipt. You take interest in their thoughts about your business, and you interact with them as well.

Do’s

  • Show empathy.
  • Practice clear communication.
  • Always follow up.
  • Be quick to respond.
  • Lose your cool.
  • Avoid accountability.
  • Make promises you can’t keep.

Dont’s 

  • Lose your cool.
  • Avoid accountability.
  • Make promises you can’t keep.
  • Treat customers differently.
  • Wrap-up