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Are you all about customer service or customer experience?

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Title Insurance with Bell Title /Triserv LLC

The buzz words are a little different today, but customer service is a phrase that is used to the point where it has lost its meaning. Don't you think?

So having said that, are you using popular buzz words to separate yourself and what are you doing to do it (give good customer service, that is)? Right now, in the world of customers and the ultimate retention of those customers (because that is how we measure our success as businesses).....what is making the world of business go around. Are you making the experience of your customer the reason you do what you do? Are they happy to come back? or do they just not have any other options, because all the competition is gone or they suck?

If it was up to me (and it is, b/c I am ultimately a customer) I would make sure that every single person that has ever heard of me or my company has had the best customer experience possible. That is why we work so hard to do what we do.....right?

Well, it should be. The hard work should never be in vain. We should make sure that the individuals or businesses or people should be having the best customer experience that could be had available.

Case in point:

I think surveys are great. They give us a good sample and indication of where we are and where we should be relative to how we deliver and do things. A friend of mine is sitting in a board meeting the other day and is doing some basic discovery as part of her new position and the executives at the meeting were asked by a "consulting firm" performing a survey of current customers what they thought about what they thought of the company that she now works for.....but the survey was cut off at the end because they had met all the initial requirements of the initial survey. And, so the participants were sent an email that their survey answers were no longer needed because they had hit the survey requirements.....
WHAT?!!!!

Great concept, piss off the people that do business with you to complete a survey they do not want to do anyway and tell them that the energy they expending on your behalf was wasted....good idea!

My point is this.......keep the people happy that you count on for business and bend over backwards to make sure that all their expectations are being met and you will keep them for life. The trick is do it ALL the time!!!!!

It is not complicated and not hard.

DO THE RIGHT THING FIRST!!!!

The rest takes care of itself!

 

Stay Sharp and good luck!

Your ActiveRain partner and national title agent,

Until next time my friends,


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Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Bo, my dentist uses email surveys. Gets immediate feedback on his service. Great idea. surveymonkey.com can help with this.

Jan 07, 2009 11:35 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Select Properties-St. Louis Missouri - Des Peres, MO
SelectAnn.com

Bo,

Awesome post! It is always easier to do it right the first time!

Ann Hayden remaining positive and doing the right thing(hopefully) in dark Wildwood, Missouri

Jan 07, 2009 12:54 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Bo, Great post! With so many vendors supplying the same product, the one's that give the best service are going to be the one's that survive this mess we are in...

~~Michael 

Jan 07, 2009 07:14 PM
Richard Weisser
Richard Weisser Realty - Newnan, GA
Richard Weisser Retired Real Estate Professional

Bo...

Hmmm I never looked at it like that. If someone IS ticked off that survey really is going to light the fuse!

Jan 08, 2009 12:07 AM
Bo Hussung
Bell Title /Triserv LLC - Nashvle, TN

Gary, I am using Surveymonkey, but think it would be better to utitlize the service with a proprietary template. EMMA has just started as part of their service program....I think I will look into it. Thanks....Bo

Ann, also saves on a lot of headaches later. Thanks....>Bo

Michael, You always "get it" Michael. Thanks....Bo

Richard, probably. Like anything, it has to be used with discretion. Thanks.....Bo

Jan 09, 2009 08:03 AM