Customer Service Means Actions, Not Slogans

[b]Every single contact your organization has with its customers either cultivates or corrodes your relationship. [/b]

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/Tj0S+v&ayn [color=darkred][b]See yourself through your customers` eyes.[/b][/color]  [b]In the vacation, my friends and I decided on a whim to see a movie. It was the last show of the evening, and, [/b][b]though we were  ten minutes late, we didn`t feel missing a few scenes would matter. The cashier refused to sell us tickets because he had       closed the cash drawer for the night. We asked him if it were possible to enter the money in the next day`s records. he said    no. After speaking to two more employees including the manager, [/b][b]we left without seeing the film. They couldn`t take our       money because the drawer was closed. [/b][b]Had the theater`s employees been trained to see situations through the eyes of the customers, we would not [/b]
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'A1elU![#sN [font=Tahoma][size=10pt][font=Tahoma][size=10pt][color=blue][b]corporately but also individually." [/b][/color][/size][/font][/size][/font][font=Tahoma][size=10pt][font=Tahoma][size=10pt][color=blue][b]No one is too important or unimportant to leave out of your positive PR loop. [/b][/color][/size][/font][/size][/font]
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