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Customer Service is defined simply as treatment of a client before, during and after a sale is made or a service is rendered.
Modern technology brought about inventions that make life easier. However, such approach in dealing with customer concerns justify complains regarding the deterioration on the quality of client services.
In business, the customer is king; no matter how impossible or inappropriate some of their behaviors may be. Everybody knows that for a business to thrive there should be a loyal customer base – clients who are just too eager to do repeat transactions with the company. Each satisfied customer expands the business exponentially. For behind every single happy client lie 10 more potential customers.
An aggressive marketing support for company product and services will be in vain if not properly backed up with good customer service.
So how do we define good customer service?
It is service with a smile. It is going that extra mile. It is never to be viewed upon as overly patronizing nor rendered with impersonal and robot-like precision.
It is the need for human interaction in dealing with a client’s concerns done in a satisfactory manner.
In this age of computer technology where everything is viewed as borderless and seamless, delegating the task for customer service to a department is an outdated practice.
Company management should realize that clients deal with employees in different levels of the organization. Each individual represents the company. Should any untoward incident happen involving the interaction between a company employee and a client, chances are high that unwanted negative information will be disseminated by the aggrieved customer. A team well trained and properly informed on the rules of good customer service can prevent such occurrences.
The internet also introduced a new approach to customer satisfaction. A web marketing company relies on a sort of self-service style or approach in dealing and determining their customer’s needs. A visitor to their website, upon purchase of products or services online, will be more confident to deal with the company again if he sees that everything he needs can be had with a click of the mouse. This also includes information on how and who to contact in case he needs to file a complaint or make a product exchange.
Marketing support is an integral part in bringing in the initial money to the company. The only thing that will keep in the profits, in the end, is rendering good customer service.
