Learn To Review Your Brand’s Customer Service

Your brand prides itself on your product and your customer service, right? But, perhaps more important is how your customers perceive your product and your customer service. What steps does your company take to insure the perception and the reality are in sync with each other?

Have you done a survey to see if your customer have a different story to tell you? How often does your business review and retrain your sales and customer service staff?

When most business publications talk about customer service skills, things like "being a people person" tend to take the spotlight. It's not that this trait is outright wrong, but it's so vague and generic that it is hardly a help to those looking to get involved in support positions within a company, and certainly doesn't help out entrepreneurs/founders who are looking for the right set of skills when hiring the all-important folks who will be taking care of their customers.

Make sure you're getting to the situation at hand quickly; customers don't need your business history or to hear about how your day is going. More importantly, you need to be cautious about how some of your communication habits translate to customers, and it's best to err on the side of caution whenever you find yourself questioning a situation.

The best customer relations employees in your company will work on having a deep knowledge of how your product works. It's not that every single team member should be able to build your product from scratch, but rather they should know the ins and outs of how your product works, just like a customer who uses it everyday would.

Learn to practice patience. Not only is patience important to customers, who often reach out to support when they are confused and frustrated, but it's also important to the business at large: we've shown you before that great service beats fast service every single time. Yet patience shouldn't be used as an excuse for slothful service either!

Despite the many research-backed rants on why you should spend more time with customers, the bottom line is that there is a limit, and you need to be concerned with getting customers what they want in an efficient manner. The trick here is that this should also be applied when realizing when you simply cannot help a customer. If you don't know the solution to a problem, the best kind of support member will get a customer over to someone who does.

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