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Eight Strategies for First-rate Customer Service

Overview Are you providing your customers with the satisfying experience that will keep them coming back? In a marketplace where too many products and services are chasing too little demand, businesses face a daunting challenge: do everything possible to attract and retain customers. Customer service starts by offering both a trouble-free shopping experience and a smooth business transaction. But now more than ever it's also about anticipating and meeting a person's or company's wants, not just needs. View this page to see eight strategies that will create relationships with your customers that keep them coming back.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2008
Format	Resource Center
Topics	Customer Support Services, Call Center - Contact, CRM Software, Sales - Marketing, Strategic Planning

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