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    How do you build a culture of customer care in your company? It’s really

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    In an environment like this, when many people believe that no company cares about them, it should be easy to make a big impression on your customers. If you show your customers that you care, your company will shine. You might even attract some of your competitors’ customers!

    How do you build a culture of customer care in your company? It’s really

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    Apparently, I’m not alone in that feeling. The Rockefeller Foundation study showed that 68 per cent of customers who stopped doing business with a company did so for one reason: they felt like that company didn’t care about them. One commenter on my blog summed up what many of us believe. She said that doing business today was “very similar to a visit to the carnival...with less than honest people trying to separate [me] from [my] money for little or nothing in return.”

    In an environment like this, when many people believe that no company cares about them, it should be easy to make a big impression on your customers. If you show your customers that you care, your company will shine. You might even attract some of your competitors’ customers!

    How do you build a culture of customer care in your company? It’s really

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    In an environment like this, when many people believe that no company cares about them, it should be easy to make a big impression on your customers. If you show your customers that you care, your company will shine. You might even attract some of your competitors’ customers!

    How do you build a culture of customer care in your company? It’s really

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    In an environment like this, when many people believe that no company cares about them, it should be easy to make a big impression on your customers. If you show your customers that you care, your company will shine. You might even attract some of your competitors’ customers!

    How do you build a culture of customer care in your company? It’s really not hard, but it takes consistent commitment. Here are five ideas that will get you started as you build a customer-focused business.

    1. Make customer satisfaction a company-wide goal, not just a slogan. It’s easy to say the right things in your ads, but customers expect you to deliver in real life. Delivering a great product or service, on time, at a fair price, tells your customer that you value them. It sounds simple, but how many times in your experience has a business you’ve dealt with dropped the ball in one of these areas?

    2. Ask your customers what they want. In a survey done by RightNow Technologies, customers most often cited poor customer service as the reason they left. But companies believed that price was the biggest reason customers left. That shows that many companies are making bad guesses about what customers think is important. Find out what your customers think. Send a satisfaction survey to your top customers. Encourage them to give honest opinions about your products and services. You might be surprised by the answers you get!

    3. Give special attention to your best customers. It’s true: you’ll get 80% of your business from 20% of your customers. Get to know these customers: their business, their people, their future plans. Acknowledge when these companies win awards, or achieve industry milestones. The extra effort you put in will cement your relationship

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