Got a Problem, Ms. Customer? Too Bad So Sad
As we look forward to a competitive 2011, superb customer service is going to be vital to your success. I recently heard a story of a consultant who was made aware of a customer problem. She went onto a forum to ask other consultants for advice since the problem originated with another consultant. On the forum she received suggestions from fellow consultants, some of them veteran Directors, to tell the customer to call the corporate office.
This consultant missed a golden opportunity to salvage the customer’s poor experience. She received bad advice. We may be sales consultants, but we are in the service business. If we don’t service our customers, someone else will.
Independent consultants should not give a customer their corporate phone number and tell her to call to try to solve her own problem. Obviously if the customer requests the corporate number, we should oblige; yet that is not what I’m referring to in this situation. We’re all about customer service, or certainly should be. [Read more…] about Customer Service? Or Crappy Service?