Customer service is about satisfying and delighting customers through all customer interactions and experiences. It provides a competitive advantage through building loyalty and positive impressions of a company. Good customer service requires interpersonal skills like active listening and problem solving, as well as service standards and convenience. Its benefits include job satisfaction, reputation, and profitability for both customers and the organization.
4. Customer Service is everything
and anything that touches a
customer – directly or
indirectly… means servicing
customers and it's so much
more than just solving problems
or addressing complaints.
Customer service is part of a
holistic customer experience
that is capable of providing a
critical competitive advantage
in today's increasingly cluttered
and commoditized marketplace.
-Joseph Jaffe, Founder at Evol8tion
5. a voluntary act the
demonstrates a genuine
desire to satisfy, if not
delight a customer.
6. experience we deliver
to the customer, the
promise we keep to
the customer. It’s
how we make them
feel when they do
business with us.
–Shep Hyken, Customer Service Expert
and New York Times bestselling
Author
7. Who is the Customer?
Any person or organization that
interacts with a company
Individual or
Organizational
External or Internal
Intermediary or Business
Partner
8. “… a situation in which a customer
comes into contact with any aspect
of the company or organization,
however remote or brief, and
thereby has an opportunity to form
an impression.”
—Jan Carlzon
SAS Airlines
9.
10. The real branding is how
you represent the
company.
-Abbygale Arenas-de Leon
11. Benefits of a Memorable Customer Service
Personal and Practical Needs
Job security
Work Satisfaction
Acceptance by Others
High Esteem
Time
15. Represents a customer’s feeling of
attachment to or preference for a
company’s people, products or services.
16. “To increase loyalty, companies must not
“delight” customers by exceeding service
expectations, instead organizations must
satisfactorily solve their service issues.”
-Harvard Business Review
24. "One of the deep secrets of life
is that all that is really worth
doing is what we do for others.“
-Lewis Caroll
Editor's Notes
Companies today are looking for new ways to attract, retain and satisfy customers by making customer service their top priority. A great number of customers, especially loyal customers who stay with a company for years, translates into greater profits and financial stability for the company.
To consistently deliver exceptional customer service, a financial services company –such as an insurance company, a bank, a credit card company, a mutual fund company, or an investment company, typically relies on the combined efforts of many people from various areas within the organization. Everyone who works for a financial services firm is responsible for ensuring that customers receive high-quality service.
To consistently deliver exceptional service, a financial services company –such as an insurance company –typically relies on the combined efforts of many people from various areas within the organization.
Everyone who works for a financial services firm is responsible for ensuring that customers receive high quality service.
There are different types of customers:
An individual customer is a person who buys/uses a product primarily for his own benefit or for his family while an organizational customer is a business or other organization that buys a product/service for its benefit of for its employees or members.
An external cust. Is any person or org. in a position to buy/use a company’s products while an internal cust is a company employee/department that receives support from another employee/department within the organization
An intermediary is a person who links buyers of financial products and services with the companies that sell those products and services while a business partner is an organization that helps a company develop, distribute or service its products.