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- Welcome Every Customer with Smile: It’s important that whenever you deal with your customers, you smile. If you have a bricks-and-mortar business, you must make eye contact with them when they walk through the door so they feel welcomed and valued.
Smiling instantly makes you look more attractive and approachable. It is also more likely to draw people to you and help diffuse a tense atmosphere
- Welcome Every Customer with Smile: It’s important that whenever you deal with your customers, you smile. If you have a bricks-and-mortar business, you must make eye contact with them when they walk through the door so they feel welcomed and valued.
- Know your products: Conveying knowledge about products and services will help you win a customer’s trust and confidence. Know your company’s products, services and return policies inside out. Try to anticipate the types of questions customers will ask. Make sure your employees are fully trained about your products. Periodically take the time to make sure all employees are onboard with new developments, products, and protocols.
Standards
There are few standards on this topic. ISO and The International Customer Service Institute (TICSI) have published the following ones:
- ISO 9004:2000, on performance improvement
- ISO 10001:2007, on customer service conduct
- ISO 10002:2004, on quality management in handling customer complaints
- ISO 10003:2007, on dispute resolution
- ISO 10004:2012, on monitoring and measuring
- The International Customer Service Standard (TICSS)
- CCQA Customer Care Standard (Care Quality Alliance) www.CCQA.org.uk
There is also an Information Technology service management standard: ISO/IEC 20000:2005. Its first part concerns specifications and its second part the code of practice.