Tag: Customer Service

Why Sales and Customer Service Are Part of Everyone’s Job

Corporate functions often have a distinct if largely unspoken split between customer-facing and back-end roles. While salespeople, marketing teams, and customer service reps interact with groups of or specific customers on a regular basis, those with more behind-the-scenes roles may rarely interact with customers or potential customers in their day-to-day activities. But in today’s competitive […]

5 Questions to Ask When Hiring New Customer Service Agents

Making new hires in customer service isn’t easy. You know that your customer service agents need to wear a lot of different hats while serving a wide variety of clients. They help with the ongoing growth of your company by making sure customers are satisfied and turning them from one-time buyers into repeat clients. A […]

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More Customer Service Lessons Learned from Tesla

In two previous posts, we’ve been discussing how Tesla has grown an incredibly strong brand with fierce customer loyalty. We focused on the lessons from real-life examples that can be applied to any business. We’ve discussed the first six examples in our previous posts, and here, we’ll look at the last four.

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What You Can Learn from Tesla’s Customer Service

In a previous post, we discussed the challenge often faced by managers and business owners in teaching customer service skills to entry-level employees.

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Customer Service Lessons Learned from Tesla

A challenge many companies face is providing a top-notch customer experience. The reason—particularly for business-to-consumer (B2C) companies with high volumes of customers—is that so many of their customer touch points come in the form of entry-level, low-paid staff, often with high turnover. Teaching these employees the basics, let alone the intricacies, of customer relationship management […]