To kick off Customer Service Week 2016 (which starts Monday), let me pose a question that may sound like a no-brainer: Does practice make perfect in customer service? The answer, surprisingly, is "not ...

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Exceptional customer service depends on more than smiling, empathetic employees (though they’re vitally important as well!). It also requires customer service standards and customer experience systems ...

Your customer service goal should be to never say a blunt “no.” Instead, make every effort to arrive at a “yes” for each customer interaction. In the realm of customer service, a knee-jerk “no” ...