How to Offer Top Level Customer Service

| Sunday, November 4, 2012
By Jacquie Luger


If you own an internet business that promotes a product or service, then you must also back your services and product with high quality customer service. It is not that hard to lose customers by not being around for the valuable people who have helped to make your business what it is. In this article, we will discuss three things that can be done to help you have wonderful customer service.

Reply Promptly: Online customer service has a much better chance of succeeding if you're consistently prompt with your responses. The more quickly you're able to resolve the issues that your customer is facing, the better response you'll get from him/her. Running an online business requires you to serve your customer even more promptly because of the unstable nature of the Web. Ideally, you should help customers with whatever they need as quickly as possible so they can begin to develop a more positive view of your business. When customers email you, make it a point to try and respond to their queries within 12-18 hours. If they have an option to call you, always have someone available to answer in order to help them. There's something about companies that focus on giving the most prompt customer service; people feel a lot more safer doing business with them and are comfortable in buying their products.

Be Polite: Imagine receiving an abusive, angry email from a customer - what would your reaction be? Despite your best efforts to offer assistance, some customers can be quite nasty, which may be difficult to always stay professional. A customer may instantly dislike you if they perceive your tone to be rude, so even offering the best assistance won't help if your customer doesn't like you. Yet if you're polite, customers will feel as though you're making an effort to see their point. Even if you're faced with an abusive customer, stay calm and work through the issue politely, with a view to finding a suitable resolution. If you can be polite while working with your customer to rectify the problem, your customer will feel much happier about the results you achieve.

Even if you think they are being unwarranted, do your best at getting things across to them in a caring manner and they will end up being able to understand things. The point is that winning over your customer has to do with doing everything within your power to properly assist them.

Understand Your Customers: When you remember a customer's name, this goes a long way in making that customer feel special. Knowing your customer's history and how long they've been with you will make them feel cared. Even something simple like saying their first name will appear that your company is concerned with treating customers well. If you can put even a little bit of effort in learning more about your customers, especially the loyal ones, you'll be able to get much more out of your customer service in the long run. If you provide good service for your customers and show that you care about them, then your online business should continue to grow. People who are satisfied with the wonderful customer service that a company provides will stay with that company and also tell a few friends about their experience with that company.




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